Education - History

In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel. Illich's view, which could be summed up as "the corruption of the best is the worst," is that Jesus' call...

In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment-an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its...

The Salvaging of CivilizationThe present outlook of human affairs is one that admits of broad generalizations and that seems to require broad generalizations. We are in one of those phases of experience which become cardinal in history. A series of immense and tragic events...

How do other countries create "smarter" kids? What is it like to be a child in the world's new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World "gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these foreign cultures and manages to make our own culture...

Children should not just read about history, they should live it. In The Story of Civilization, the stories that have shaped humanity come alive like never before. Author Phillip Campbell uses his historical expertise and story-telling ability together in tandem to present the content...

From the earliest hill tribes to the cultural peak of the Pax Romana, and finally to the Western Empire's chaotic decline - H. A. Guerber's history of Rome is superb for young readers.The legends that accompanied the founding of the Roman Republic were part...

---Current issues updated for 2025---This student- and teacher-friendly history is designed for classroom and homeschool use; it supplies a solid foundation for life-long historical learning.UNLIKE TRADITIONAL TEXTBOOKS that can overwhelm the reader with countless facts to absorb, The Student's Friend Concise World History highlights...

From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom "[Roth] has a clear vision for what it ought to mean to be a student: Learn what you love to do, get better at it, and then...

Embark on an intellectual journey of unparalleled magnitude with "The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas" - a monumental work that remains a cornerstone of Western philosophy and theology. Spanning five volumes, this magnum opus offers a comprehensive exploration of Christian doctrine and moral...

Magisterial pedagogy. Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica. While studying to become a rhetorician, he plunged into a...

If you want to discover the captivating and cruel history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, then keep reading...Did you know that during the 18th century on certain Caribbean islands, such as Jamaica and Antigua, roughly 90 percent of the population were enslaved? If you...

If you want to discover the captivating and cruel history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, then keep reading...Did you know that during the 18th century on certain Caribbean islands, such as Jamaica and Antigua, roughly 90 percent of the population were enslaved? If you...

"The World's Most Courageous Teacher" reveals the inner circle secrets of the American school system. The legendary schoolteacher, John Taylor Gatto, invested over 10 years of dedicated research to uncover some of the most alarming ideas and writings by the creators and advocates of...

The University of MichiganIt has not been the purpose of the author to write a history of the University of Michigan. Several predecessors in this field have done their work so well that another book entirely historical in character might seem superfluous. Rather it...

A sweeping history of the buildings and materials that have shaped nine centuries of university life, from parchments and silk robes to glass atriums and sprawling parking lots. We often idealize the university as a sanctuary for disinterested reason, where material concerns are set...

The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ is a classic biography of Jesus Christ that is taken from the original text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 discovery. Shulim or Nikolai Notovich, known in the West as Nicolas Notovitch, was a Crimean Jewish adventurer who claimed to...

THREADS OF HISTORY IS AN AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREP RESOURCE THAT PROVIDES A THEMATIC REVIEW OF COURSE CONTENT WHILE BUILDING ESSENTIAL HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS.Each of the 37 lessons focuses on a specific theme in U.S. history and includes a comprehensive data table, primary...

The removal of the Native Americans west of the Mississippi River during the 1800s to clear the way for settlers is a tragic story that involves human suffering on a grand scale. The policy of Manifest Destiny said America was a morally superior nation...

Education of the Negroes Since 1860The Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund propose to publish from time to time papers that relate to the education of the colored race. These papers are designed to furnish information to those who are concerned in the...

Tudor school-boy life: the dialogues of Juan Luis VivesErasmus was born in 1466, Bud (Budaeus) in 1468, and Vives in 1492. These great men were regarded by their contemporaries as a triumvirate of leaders of the Renascence movement, at any rate outside of Italy....