Modern World History: A Family-Style History Program Paperback – January 3, 2026

Modern World History is an activity-based program for students from age 6 to 18. It covers world history from about 1800 to the 21st century. This course book is for mentors to use as a scaffold and idea resource when planning reading, activities, discussions, and writing assignments.The course consists of nine units, one for each month of your school year.Each Exploration in the units is written as a complete lesson plan. It will direct you to books to read, videos to watch, projects to craft, games to play, and discussions to have. The units are clear full of Explorations to choose from, and you won’t have time for them all. This is a pick-and-choose curriculum.Besides the history lesson for the day, the units are lined with sidebars that direct you to discussions, books, famous people, interesting facts, writing ideas, and more.You will also see a Library List at the beginning and a Show What You Know section at the end that will help you create assessments or tests based on your individual learning.These units books are for the mentor, not to hand to the student. They are supposed to be used repeatedly. Since this is a pick-and-choose curriculum, you do some of the explorations and save others for later on. If you follow the four-year cycle, you will progress through Ancient History, Middle Ages History, Colonial History, and Modern History over the course of four years. Then you will cycle back to Ancient History in the fifth year when your kids are older and learning at a higher level. In all, you may use this book three times with your child.The Modern History units contain plenty of concepts for little kids and plenty to challenge high schoolers. Most lessons are meant to be taught to many ages, from 6-year-olds clear up to seniors in high school. Each age group gets the same Exploration and principles, but they learn on the level they are ready for. Books from your library and video from the YouTube playlists customize the learning for each age. Read more