Tag: American Revolution
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Hanukkah at Valley Forge
The Winter at Valley Forge is credited with being the hardest winter of the entire American Revolution. General Washington was striving to keep together an army with no money, no food, and precious little to keep his soldiers from dying of hypothermia. Yet he persevered. There are so many homeschool history lessons you can pull from…
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American Revolution unit study
At a formative point in my childhood, almost 12 years old, I went to Colonial Williamsburg for the first time. We had part of a day to go there, and I remember distinctly reveling in the milieu of Virginia right before the American Revolution. It fascinated me, and so I wasn’t too surprised to discover…
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Declaration of Independence writing lesson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…” Thomas Jefferson wrote those words a couple of hundred years ago and, with the flick of a pen, set in motion events that changed the world. What would happen if your…
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Spies changed the course of the American Revolution
When I think about spies, I think about James Bond and Cold War era spy vs. spy. Recently I learned George Washington had an entire spy network during the American Revolution. This inspired our history lesson for our co-op, Spies in the American Revolution. {This post contains affiliate links marked with an *} Spies in…
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What happened because of the Seven Years War?
A few weeks ago, I told you all about the Seven Years’ War and why it happened. It made for a fascinating history lesson, but as I mentioned in that post, the Seven Years’ War changed how the world map looked. The Treaty redrew country lines on the map, transferred over whole colonies to different…