American Culture (1860-2001) - See or Purchase Individual Items

Simple and Ready-to-Go!
You’ll find this program guide is laid out so simply - just open and begin! Each of your 36 school weeks is laid out to reduce your paperwork! Each week also includes activity ideas, geography and timeline work, important advice on how to teach concepts, web search ideas, and much more!

Supply List for Activities
By parent request, we’ve put together a supply list in your guidebook so you can plan your activities ahead of time, and gather any supplies (other than routine items) you need.

Student Independent Work Schedules
Each week, your student will have a schedule all their own to complete the work they need to do independently.

Rating System for Activities
Activities have a rating on their supplies & skill level.

$80.00
Item# AC2-101

You'll love the clear weekly schedules and helps in this Guide. The Culture Guide also includes activity ideas, geography and timeline work, advice on how to teach and grade student work using Charlotte Mason ideals, website links, supply lists, a rating system for activities, and a student independent work schedule so you'll never write out a homework list.

You may want to print the teacher grids and independent study schedules  (about 72 pages) for use and view the rest on your device.

$70.00
Item# AC2-101E

Create magazine headlines, stories, puzzles, letters to the editor and more for the big events in recent American history such as Antietam, the Oklahoma land rush, D-Day battles, presidential assassinations, and landing on the moon.

$19.00
Item# AC2-151

Create magazine headlines, stories, puzzles, letters to the editor and more for the big events in recent American history -- such as Antietam, the Oklahoma land rush, D-Day battles, presidential assassinations, and landing on the moon.

You will want to print these pages looseleaf for your student to file in their Timelines in History.

$17.00
Item# AC2-151E

Pages allow students to journal about the life of each president, recording their service dates and highlights of their term, as well as personal information and famous quotes. Includes 50 pages, 8 of which are full color.

$12.00
Item# AC2-152E

Year-by-year, watch the Civil War unfold as you complete activities such as planning your own reconnaissance mission.

$17.00
Item# AC2-201

Fascinating narrative shows Lincoln as our nation’s first hands-on Commander in Chief, whose appreciation for the power of technology played a critical role in the North’s Civil War victory over the less developed South. Learn how the North used the idea of total war and up-to-date technology to win this bitter conflict.

$19.00
Item# AC2-202

Follow the course of our country in the wake of the Civil War. Journey through the upheaval and difficulties of Reconstruction, including the debate over presidential versus congressional reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Later chapters cover the West:  the Homestead Act, cattle drives, outlaws, and the forced removal of Native American tribes.

$19.00
Item# AC2-203

Follow the course of our country in the wake of the Civil War. Journey through the upheaval and difficulties of Reconstruction, including the debate over presidential versus congressional reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, and Andrew Johnson's impeachment. Later chapters cover the West: the Homestead Act, cattle drives, outlaws and the forced removal of Native American tribes.

You will most likely view this resource on your device.

$15.00
Item# AC2-203E

Through the stories of five immigrants, the world of New York City’s tenements comes alive with descriptions of the newcomers’ struggles and triumphs as they acclimate to life in America.

$18.00
Item# AC2-205

Travel through Chicago’s varied history as you try your hand at projects like making a miniature glacier or a Ferris wheel, or planning a fire-escape route.

$15.00
Item# AC2-206

Go underground to see below city streets into an underground labyrinth of transportation tunnels.

$6.00
Item# AC2-207

Learn more about science and invention as you discover amazing facts about this inventor.

$17.00
Item# AC2-208

Fabulous illustrations take you inside empire in America and the life of the one-of-a-kind Teddy.

$17.00
Item# AC2-209

Excellent pictures help students understand this conflict.

$16.00
Item# AC2-210

After World War I, people felt a renewed optimism about the future. Musicians gave Americans a new type of music that fit this optimism -- jazz.

$6.00
Item# AC2-211

This fast-paced account of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 puts a human face on the crisis, and also serves as a useful primer of financial basics. Wonderful!
 

$20.00
Item# AC2-212

Live through the dust bowls that whipped through America.

$7.00
Item# AC2-213

Follow the course of the war and get in on some of the action with activities that will take you right there.

$15.00
Item# AC2-214

Learn about America’s World War II culture -- on the front lines and the homefront. Plus, activities allow you to build WWII spotter planes, signal lights, victory pins and more.
 

$15.00
Item# AC2-215

Learn about African Americans’ struggle for equal rights.

$6.00
Item# AC2-216

A minute-by-minute chronicle of what happened that momentous afternoon ... as the world reacted with shock and disbelief to word of the President’s death in Dallas. Historic news photographs accompany the gripping story.

$18.00
Item# AC2-217

How do you go from walking on the earth one day and skipping amongst the stars the next? What “Team Moon” does is take kids through the entire Apollo 11 experience from the perspective of those who worked on the project. Fantastic detail on what it took to successfully put men on the moon.

$20.00
Item# AC2-219

Learn about all things American! Discover cultural information about how American ideas were invented, built, created and more by Americans who brought them to life. You’ll also discover cultural information about the different periods in later American history, getting to know what was fun, hip and happening! All along the way, activities are included that will help your student get a feel for the times.

$29.00
Item# AC2-251

Learn about all things American! Discover cultural information about how ideas were invented, built, created and more by Americans who brought them to life. You'll also discover cultural information about the different periods in later American history, getting to know what was fun, hip and happening!  All along the way, activities are included that will help your student get a feel for the times.

You will likely view this resource on your device and print 10 select pages for your student.

$25.00
Item# AC2-251E

These are the Adventure Reading books scheduled in your American Culture Guide. They are not available individually - only as a set.  The set includes:

Little Town on the Prairie
The Trouble Begins at 8
Quake: Disaster in San Francisco
All-of-a-Kind Family
Rascal
The Long WInter
Bread and Roses, Too
Letters From Rifka
Hoodwinked!

$85.00
Item# AC2-350

Your student will discover and evaluate values such as seeing all people as created by God, nurturing contentment, or their personal work ethic as they encounter how American cultural values through history such as racism, materialism, and greed have affected our country.

$19.00
Item# AC2-401

Your student will discover and evaluate values such as seeing all people as created by God, nurturing contentment, or their personal work ethic as they encounter how American cultural values through history such as racism, materialism, and greed have affected our country.

You may print the 105 pages for your student, OR you can view on your device and have your student write their answers in a journal or notebook.

$15.00
Item# AC2-401E

Meet six American painters of note -- Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Charles M. Russell, Grant Wood, Norman Rockwell, and Jackson Pollock. Students will learn about each artist by looking at included full-color reproductions of their work and learn to appreciate it with interactive picture study activities and questions. 
 

$29.00
Item# AC2-501

Meet six American painters of note -- Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Charles M. Russell, Grant Wood, Norman Rockwell, and Jackson Pollock. Students will look at full-color reproductions of each artist's work and learn to appreciate it with interactive study activities and questions.

You will likely view this resource on your digital device. A few paintings will need to be accessed online due to copyright restrictions.

$24.00
Item# AC2-501E

Full color books that are specially designed to work well and look exceptional on tablets, laptops, or other devices. Titles include, "The Fun & Futuristic Fifties," "The Computer Revolution" and "The Cold War".

These tablet books are meant to be viewed on your device. Available only as part of a digital set - not available for individual purchase.

Available only as part of a digital set - not available for individual purchase.

A collection of maps on CD that includes both national and state maps with labels, without labels, and outlined. Also includes state fact pages with drawings of the state bird and flower with room to fill in a variety of facts with answer keys, plus full-color state flags. Finally, there are five historical maps, six maps showing US growth, and both physical and political maps of the US. We recommend this resource for use with our American history programs, though not extensively used in American Story 1.

$20.00
Item# MAPSUS

WinterPromise offers you a unique timeline resource, our “Timelines in History.” It is copied on heavyduty cardstock and should last a student throughout their school years. Each student usually enjoys having his own, as it is a personal journal in which they can record any information they’d like.

$29.00
Item# TIME

Black & White Reproducible Timeline Figures for Use with Early AND Later American History
Timeline figures are a fun way to add to the color and flavor of a timeline book. Students cut out and paste the figures into their own “Timelines in History.” This is the "America's History" set by Homeschool in the Woods. This set is black and white and reproducible and includes 420 figures. Your Early and Later American guidebooks provide a week-by-week schedule that tells you when to use each figure.

$33.00
Item# TLH-AM