Powell History is now offering five amazing options for adults who want to make up for lost time and gain the mastery of history that public education and academia just can’t offer you.
The following five options can match any level of interest, expertise, and any budget!
A First History for Adults, Part 1: The Story of America (Reviewed [...]
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How did we become “bogged down” in the quagmire of the Middle East, and how do we restore a policy of self-interest in America’s foreign relations?
Americans once proudly guarded their independence and self-interest.
In the Barbary War of 1801-1805, the United States answered attacks on its citizens by Muslim pirates with a decisive military response, [...]
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My lecture on “The State of History,” offered to an audience of homeschooling parents on July 23rd, is now available on-line at: www.historyatourhouse.com.
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This Monday, July 23, I will begin hosting a teleconference lecture series for homeschooling parents and educators. I would like to invite anyone who is interested to learn why the quality of history teaching has continually declined since the early twentieth century, and why, as a result, children now almost universally complain that history is boring and [...]
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With my course on European History just around the corner, I wanted to provide students (and others) with a chance to pick up the best history books that you can use to follow-up on the material independently.
My list of the top ten history books on European history begins with #10, Willis Mason West’s “Early Progress.”
West’s “Modern [...]
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Part 3 of 5: Europe Today
In Part 1 of WSEH, I discussed the “Eur-Am” Connection, i.e. the context of European developments that preceded and paralleled American history and conditioned its progress.
In Part 2 of WSEH, I presented the idea of that European History is a fascinating world of values that can provide us with both [...]
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The main website for HistoryAtOurHouse is now available for prospective clients.
Visit: http://www.historyatourhouse.com/main/index.html.
The blog, underway for a few weeks now is: http://www.historyatourhouse.com.
When visiting the site, be sure to sign up for the e-mail list, and send a link to your friends.
This program, the first of its kind anywhere, is the only history curriculum in the world [...]
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I consider myself fairly well-versed in history. I had books by Thucydides, Daniel Boorstin, Charles van Doren, John Herman Randall Jr., Alexis de Tocqueville, David Halberstam, Gerhard Weinberg, John Keegan and Victor Davis
Hanson on my bookshelf years before I ever heard of Scott Powell and his First History for Adults. I could recite the names [...]
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Posted in The Middle East on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Egypt is one of my candidates for the role of the next Poland–the next flashpoint that ignites an unexpected larger war, such as occured in 1939 (see my previous post on “The Next War“).
Egypt is among the more secular, “westernized” Islamic nations in the Middle East, but it is a country where the dictatorial nationalist regime [...]
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This week, two revolutions will be celebrated: one that established the freest, most prosperous culture in the world, and one that will help create a rebirth of spirit of the first!
On the 4th of July, the birth of the world’s greatest country will be marked with a fabulous round of festivities.
On the 5th of July, [...]
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