Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies
Posted in Animals, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on April 3, 2012
And we who wrote this book? Well, we, too, have been children. We used to climb trees and turn somersaults; why—But that is another story! And we remember so well what it used to be like to have to learn dull things we did not wish to know. So we said to ourselves, as we Read More »
Beowulf Resources
Posted in College Prep, High School, Middle School, Mythology, Public Domain, Reading, Western Civilization on April 2, 2012
Beowulf is our first great epic. It is an epitomized history of the life of the Teutonic races. It brings vividly before us our forefathers of pre-Alfredian eras, in their love of war, of sea, and of adventure. Reading the epic poem of Beowulf gives us a glimpse into the lives of our oldest English-speaking ancestors. Read More »
Richard the 3rd
Posted in College Prep, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary, Western Civilization on March 25, 2012
King Richard the Third, known commonly in history as Richard the Usurper, was perhaps as bad a man as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever raised to the throne, or perhaps it should rather be said, as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever made. Richard III only reigned for two years. But his rise to kingly Read More »
Xerxes
Posted in College Prep, Culture, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on March 25, 2012
You might recognize the name Xerxes from the Biblical story of Esther. Historians are not certain whether the story refers to Xerxes I or another, later king of the Persian empire. Nevertheless Xerxes plays an important role in the history of the Middle East. The name of Xerxes is associated in the minds of men with Read More »
Genghis Khan
Posted in College Prep, Culture, Eastern Civilization, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on March 23, 2012
Three thousand years is a period of time long enough to produce great changes, and in the course of that time a great many different nations and congeries of nations were formed in the regions of Central Asia. The term Tartars has been employed generically to denote almost the whole race. The Monguls are a portion Read More »
