Favorite Curriculum: History - "The Story of the World"

I hated history growing up. I just could not find a way to like it. I knew I had to take it to graduate and I did as little with it as possible. You know, "just enough to get by." Even when we first started educating our children at home I know I did not give much emphasis to history, which I'm sure my kids picked up on.

After floundering around the first two years at home and when I decided to "go it alone" and not use the public online school, I came across The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer. I liked the short stories and the fact that it was linear in it's teaching. So much of what I remember from my own education was disjointed dates, names, and facts that I could not reconcile to where, why, and how I needed to know this information. All of this has been rectified by using this curriculum! It makes sense, it is sequential in time line, and it is interesting.

Chris came to me the other day and said, "History is my favorite subject. I don't want you to ever sell the Story of the World books." (I've sold several of the books I did not think were classics.) So, I guess The Story of the World makes my classic list and will be part of our home library indefinitely. We do not use the activity books, just the four core books that cover the First Nomads through Modern Day. I also love that these books do not just focus on the Western World, but cover Eastern countries and religions. Defnitely 5 out of 5 stars on my list.