by Laurie Bluedorn | Sep 5, 2017 | History, Logic
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. The 4-Volume Critical Thinking in United States History Series teaches students how to apply logic to history by analyzing and evaluating primary sources and questioning how...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Sep 2, 2017 | American Government, Economics, History
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. A Basic History of the United States, 6 Volumes by Clarence B. Carson, first published 1983-2004 by American Textbook Committee, now published by Boundary Stone For your...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Dec 16, 2016 | Children's Books, History, Reading Aloud
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. “…’The captain don’t like passengers snooping’ around his ship!’ someone yelled behind us. We spun around and saw a sailor who wore an...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Dec 10, 2016 | History, Reading Aloud, Reviews
Post may contain affiliate links to materials I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. I want to tell you about a book I read to my children many years ago. Allen French is the author, and I consider it one of my very favorites. It’s called The Colonials:...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Sep 8, 2016 | History, Literature, Trivium Pursuit Sale
Pausanias (c. A.D. 143-176) Description of Greece 2.28.1 The serpents of Corinth The serpents, including a peculiar kind of a yellowish color, are considered sacred to Asclepius, and are tame with men. These are peculiar to Epidauria, and I have noticed that other...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Sep 8, 2016 | History, Literature, Trivium Pursuit Sale
Aulus Gellius (c. 125 – after 180 AD) — A Roman whose only book, Attic Nights, is a compilation of notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and many other subjects. Attic Nights Book 7, Chapter 3 An account, taken from the works of Tubero, of a serpent of...
