“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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45 years ago
This month marks two remarkable anniversaries in American history, although remarkable for quite different reasons. The first (or second chronologically, but first in our hearts and minds) is the anniversary of the moon landing. On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins were the first of the most elite group of humans: […]
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Fine Arts Friday: the end of folksongs?
As we’ve been studying American history, I’ve been choosing folk songs to go along with the era studied. Right now we’re in the 30s, and while it’s still possible to find folk songs that go with the era, the type of folk song is changing. Last month, I chose a popular song that was adopted […]
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Citizen of heaven
Author, scholar, and lawyer, Thomas More died this day in 1535 in an end common to many who displeased Henry VIII: he lost his head. The former Lord Chancellor had disapproved Henry’s annulment to Catherine of Aragon, was absent from Ann Boleyn’s coronation, and finally refused to sign the Acts of Succession. As a Protestant, […]
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America, art, Charlotte Mason, Declaration of Independence, folk songs, history, holiday, hymns, Independence Day, music
Fine Arts Friday: the Art of America’s Founding
John Adams was (almost) right about this glorious day: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by […]
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The shot that exploded the world
100 years ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated, beginning a series of events that led to a truly world-changing war. Interestingly, the Bosnian Serbs just erected a statue to his assassin, which just goes to show that historical events are never truly or completely in our past. We just […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Kentucky edition
We’re still in Louisville, so I thought I’d do a Kentucky-themed folk song (and the state song), “My Old Kentucky Home.” Frederick Douglass once said the song awakened “the sympathies for the slave, in which anti-slavery principles take root and flourish.” It’s striking that in 1852 a song that rather mildly suggests that the lives […]
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Empty Shelf: I hate cliffhangers
This post contains affiliated links. Title: A History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Fall of Constantinople Author: Susan Wise Bauer, read by John Lee. What’s it About: (Almost?) All of written history from A.D. 1100 to the fall of Constantinople in A.D. 1453, the Renaissance period in the West. […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Switching gears
Like a lot of homeschoolers, we don’t do a traditional summer break. But while we don’t stop our lessons completely, we do scale back and leave plenty of time for lazy hours by the pool and even a trip or two. So the general plan is a couple of hours of lessons and lots of lollygagging. […]
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My place in history
Yesterday, we spent the afternoon with my grandmother who is visiting my uncle. My uncle has been doing a lot of genealogy work, so we had fun perusing old photos and our family tree. I learned I have a great-great-great uncle who was a bank robber. Of course, my family tree is mainly filled […]
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Hidden Treasures
Yesterday, our homeschool group had a field trip to the Dallas Central Library. (I know, a homeschooler taking a field trip to the library is like a public school kid taking a field trip to the cafeteria. Bear with me.) They have a conference room called the Discovery Wall set up for kids where they […]
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