Dave Raymond's History Bundle

Description

History is best understood through the dual lenses of dramatic story and godly wisdom. In the first of these bundled courses, veteran history teacher Dave Raymond gives a comprehensive history of the United States by applying a Christian worldview to the characters, events, theology, literature, art, and religious beliefs of the nation. It is an engaging class for Middle School and High School students.

In the next course in the series, Dave Raymond turns his attention to the period of Modernity and the maturity of Western civilization. Under Dave’s instruction, students will learn how to apply and refine a Christian worldview to major developments in philosophy, science, and government; personalities such as Newton, Bach, Napoleon, and Austen; and movements including the Enlightenment, Darwinism, Nationalism, and Victorianism.

In the third course of this history cycle, Dave Raymond begins with Genesis, then traces world history all the way to the life of Christ. This incredible series synthesizes the events recorded in the Bible with ancient history, showing clearly how God’s providence directed the events in the ancient world. A must-have series for those wanting their children to have a Biblical worldview of history.

The fourth and final course is not yet available in this bundle. You can pre-order it separately here.

American History is a one-year class that consists of:

26 lessons (5 videos per lesson, 10-15 minutes each, 25 hours total)
Student Reader, 284p (PDF, EPUB, & MOBI)
Teacher’s Guide with Scope & Sequence and Answer Keys (PDF, EPUB, & MOBI)
Dedicated EPUB & Kindle versions of the Student Reader and Teacher’s Guide using Dyslexia-friendly fonts. View a side-by-side sample.
Weekly Exams
4 projects
Year-long Portfolio
Credit: One High School History/Social Studies
Time Period: AD 1500-1910

Modernity is a one-year class that consists of:

27 lessons (5 videos per lesson, 15-25 minutes each, 47 hours total)
Student Reader, 308p (PDF, EPUB, & MOBI)
Teacher’s Guide with Scope & Sequence and Answer Keys (PDF, EPUB, & MOBI)
Dedicated EPUB & Kindle versions of the Student Reader and Teacher’s Guide using Dyslexia-friendly fonts. View a side-by-side sample.
Weekly Exams
4 projects
Year-long Portfolio
Credit: One High School History/Social Studies
Time Period: AD 1600-2000

Antiquity is a one-year homeschool curriculum that consists of:

26 Lessons (5 lectures per lesson, ~15-20 min each, 44 hours total)
Student Reader, 211p (PDF, EPUB, & MOBI)
Teacher’s Guide with Scope & Sequence and Answer Keys (PDF, EPUB, & MOBI)
Dedicated EPUB & Kindle versions of the Student Reader and Teacher’s Guide using Dyslexia-friendly fonts. View a side-by-side sample.
Weekly Exams
4 projects
Year-long Portfolio
Credit: One High School History/Social Studies
Time Period: Creation to AD 33

Click on the FAQ tab for a complete breakdown of hours spent per area to qualify for high school credit.

License: This product is licensed for use by one family. Group licenses are available here.

Dave Raymond lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife and 5 children where he has taught in the humanities for the past 10 years. He has taught the disciplines of history, literature, composition, civics, economics, and Latin through Quiller Tutorials, Franklin Classical School, and Foundations Christian Academy.

Additional information

Lessons	79
Video Runtime	116 Hours, 45 Mins
Format	DVD, Digital (Streaming & Download)
Age	13+
Credit	3 HS
Teacher	Dave Raymond
Age/Grade	High School, Middle School

Lessons

Antiquity

Orientation (50:16)
Imago Dei: Creation (1:46:38)
The Two Cities: The Fall & Two Lineages (1:41:12)
Look On My Works, Ye Mighty: Babel & Mesopotamia (1:52:24)
The Waters of Life in the Everlasting Hills: Ancient Egypt (1:23:54)
Lekh-Lekha: Abraham & The Patriarchs (1:29:03)
On Eagles’ Wings: The Exodus & The Law (1:29:56)
The Sacrifice of Praise: Worship in Ancient Israel (1:44:27)
A House of Prayer for All Nations: Samuel to Solomon (1:33:24)
The Ways of the Father: Prophets & Kings (1:38:12)
I Form light and Create Darkness: The Exile, Medes & Persians, and Israel’s Return (1:38:51)
Beyond Life and Death: India (1:47:05)
Immutable Tradition: China (1:35:11)
Honor Versus Life: Old Japan (1:48:23)
The Smoke of 1,000 Villages: Sub-Saharan Africa (1:59:40)
In Search of the Unknown God: Greek Stories & Early History (1:30:54)
Nostoi & Empire: Greece Versus Persia (1:29:47)
The Glory that Was Greece: The Golden Age (1:59:40)
The One and the Many: The Peloponnesian War & Philosophers (1:41:41)
To the Strongest: Alexander the Great (1:14:12)
Make Straight the Highway: Between the Testaments (1:51:34)
The Grandeur that was Rome: The Roman Republic (2:00:41)
The War of Gods & Demons: The Conquest of Italy, Carthage, and Greece (1:57:46)
Crossing the Rubicon: The Fall of the Roman Republic (2:04:01)
Pax Romana: Caesar Augustus (1:51:16)
The Everlasting Man: Jesus Christ (2:11:04)

American History

Orientation (1:03:48)
The Banner of the Sun: Meso-America (1:03:41)
Brave New World: The Early Explorers (53:27)
The Colossus of Empire: The Colonies (52:11)
Stability and Change: The Reformational Colonies (52:28)
A City Upon a Hill: The Puritans (1:05:21)
A Foreign War at Home: Wars of Control (47:56)
Grace, the Founder of Liberty: The Great Awakening (1:05:00)
Fathers of Independence: Adams, Franklin, Witherspoon, and Henry (56:15)
Liberty or Death: The Declaration of Independence (1:03:25)
Awesome Providence I: The War of Independence (51:07)
Awesome Providence II: The War of Independence (54:04)
A More Perfect Union: The Constitution (48:14)
Federal Headship: George Washington (53:19)
How Good and Pleasant It Is: Adams and Jefferson (1:04:05)
Manifest Destiny: Settlers, Explorers, and War (59:56)
Word and Deed: JQ Adams and Andrew Jackson (46:50)
The Original United Nations: The Expansion of the Early US (58:28)
Idols of Mercy: Revival, Counterfeits, and Art (58:20)
A House Divided I: The Age of Compromise and Divided Cultures (51:33)
A House Divided II: Lincoln and Secession (1:12:25)
The Second War for Independence: The War Between the States (51:44)
Brother Against Brother: The War Between the States (57:51)
The Lost Cause: Reconstruction (56:44)
A New Normal: The West, Immigration, and Robber Barons (1:06:08)
Theology as Biography: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington (58:59)

Modernity

Orientation (1:19:01)
The Great Stage: Introduction to the West (1:44:30)
Ideas Have Consequences: The Enlightenment (1:25:48)
The Sacred and the Secular: Empires, Missions, Pirates, and Rulers (1:37:55)
Royal Science: The Scientific Revolution (1:40:23)
The Creators: Pascal, Vermeer, Johnson, Bach (1:35:24)
The Devil Has No Stories: The French Revolution (1:46:07)
I Am the Revolution: Napoleon (1:53:27)
Deus Ex Machina: The Industrial Revolution (1:14:24)
The Antiquary and the Muses: Scott, Austen, and the Romantic Poets (1:40:08)
No Vision Too Large: Wilberforce and Chalmers (1:29:52)
Culture=State: Nationalism (1:29:28)
Eminent Culture: Victorianism (1:39:06)
The West and the Rest: Victorian Missions (1:53:00)
The New Priesthood: Scientism and Darwinism (1:55:44)
The Square Inch War: Kuyper and Wilson (2:02:18)
The Pity of War: World War I (1:52:41)
Domesticity Versus Tyranny: Versailles, Dictators, and America’s Roaring Twenties (1:39:38)
Modern Art and the Death of Culture: Art and Architecture (2:14:04)
I’ll Take My Stand: The Thirties (2:11:55)
The Lost Generation: Literary Converts (2:10:57)
The Wrath of Man: World War II (1:55:46)
The Cross and Perseverance: World War II, Bonhoeffer, and Churchill (1:57:53)
Personal Peace and Affluence: The Fifties (2:02:57)
The Great Divorce: The Sixties (1:43:11)
The West Like the Rest: The Seventies and the End of Modernity (1:59:06)
The Triumph of the West: The Fall of Communism and Postmodernity (1:26:37)

Sample Lessons

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Try More Modernity Sample Lessons

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Sample Course Materials

Read a Sample from the Antiquity Student Reader

Read a Sample from the Antiquity Teacher’s Guide

Read a Sample from the American History Student Reader

Read a Sample from the American History Teacher’s Guide

Read a Sample from the Modernity Student Reader

Read a Sample from the Modernity Teacher’s Guide

See a Sample of the Dyslexia-friendly Version

FAQs

HSLDA recommends spending approximately 150 hours on a subject to qualify for high school credit. This is how Dave Raymond’s classes generally break down to achieve that credit. Some students will spend more time in some areas and some will spend less, but there is clearly enough different types of work to qualify for full high school credit:

American History:

* The reader includes 372 pages of original historical materials. It increases in length as the year progresses. For example, Part 1 is 150 pages and Part 2 is 222 pages. If additional reading is desired for older students, we include recommendations for that.
**If a parent desires to do two or more thesis papers for older students, that is perfectly acceptable and will only increase the amount of time spent in the class.

Modernity:

* The reader includes 400 pages of original historical materials. It increases in length as the year progresses. For example, Part 1 is 150 pages and Part 2 is 250 pages. If additional reading is desired for older students, we include recommendations for that.
**If a parent desires to do two or more thesis papers for older students, that is perfectly acceptable and will only increase the amount of time spent in the class.

What should my student’s portfolio look like?

Here is an example of the portfolio to give some ideas.