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The Freedom Center
Words cannot adequately express our trip to the Freedom Center in Cincinnati yesterday. After spending so much time in our unit study learning about slavery in our country before and after the Civil...
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Slavery and Civil War Book Treasures
I can’t tell you enough about how we have been blessed by reading the books below during our slavery and Civil War unit study. These books were so fantastic – in information, emotion and ability put...
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Slavery and Civil War Projects
Our last history unit of the year has been completed, and what a wonderfully rich unit it was! I think I mentioned in a previous post that this study was mostly literature-based. We chose really good...
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Slavery and Civil War Resources
This is the list that was in my sidebar as we worked through the slavery and Civil War unit. There are several great resources that I didn’t want to forget for future reference. I hope you find them...
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National Underground Railroad Museum
Tucked away in downtown Maysville, KY, overlooking the Ohio River is the National Underground Railroad Museum. My children had the pleasure of touring the museum located in the Bierbower House, which...
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Planning a Large Unit Study
In this final installment of my unit study series, I’m going to share with you how to design a unit study that is fairly in-depth. For those of you new to this series, you can catch up by reading… How...
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10 Living Books to Teach Medieval History
This post is from Our Journey Westward © 2006-2013 Cindy West. All rights reserved. (This post contains affiliate links.) Ah, the middle ages – kings, knights, castles, art, politics, plagues and more....
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10 Living Books to Teach Modern American History
This post is from Our Journey Westward © 2006-2013 Cindy West. All rights reserved. (This post contains affiliate links.) Well, now…quite a lot happens in the time period known as Modern American...
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Amos Fortune: Literature Project
This post is from Our Journey Westward © 2006-2014 Cindy West. All rights reserved. (This post contains affiliate links.) Analyzing the Themes from Amos Fortune I have a young man who would be...
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Slavery and Civil War Unit Study
This post is from Our Journey Westward © 2006-2014 Cindy West. All rights reserved. Our history unit about slavery and the Civil War has been completed, and what a wonderfully rich unit it was! (This...
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