Anyone wishing to learn history in America today faces an almost insurmountable challenge. Modern history texts - even those intended for children - impede the reader with vast quantities of non-essential information. They abound with biased content (religious, multicultural, politicized, or otherwise subjective) while omitting, or at least deemphasizing, many of the most indispensable facts that render the story of the past intelligible. Consequently, students find themselves unable to grasp the "big picture" when it comes to human history, and thus lack the foundational awareness required to appreciate the deeper meaning and relevance of its component narratives.
The tragic result for American culture is widespread and growing historical ignorance, and even disdain for history.
An explanation of the causes of the current debacle in historical pedagogy is beyond the scope of this preface. It is enough for the reader to know that A Short History of Ancient Times is different.
This book was written in a time when historians still believed that the average educated person could and should learn the basic outline of history, and that learning that outline was a necessary step in becoming a "historically-minded" adult. To facilitate the learning process, historians wrote short, accessible narratives, whose greatest virtue was that they stripped away all the minutiae and interpretive controversies that cloud the story of the past to reveal its straightforward, causal, fundamental progression of events.
I can honestly say that I could not have grasped the basic outline of history without the help of P. V. N. Myers. I am thrilled that homeschoolers will have this resource at their disposal to help them salvage history education in America.
Scott Powell, Creator and Teacher, HistoryAtOurHouse
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92 B&amp;W, 11 color illustrations and maps

A Short History of Ancient Times (HistoryAtOurHouse Series, Volume 1)

History

Philip Van Ness, Myers

Ancient Civilizations

Fingerhut Press

History as Past Ethics; an Introduction to the History of Morals

Legare Street Press

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

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