S10E133: Presidential Libraries and Biographies with Erin Kunkle
To give the child some idea of what has gone on in the world before he arrived;
V.M. Hillyer, from A Child’s History of the World, Preface
To take him out of his little self-centered, shut-in life, which looms so large because it is so close to his eyes;
To extend his horizon, broaden his view, and open up the vista down the ages past;
To acquaint him with some of the big events and great names and fix these in time and space as a basis for detailed study in the future;
To give him a chronological file with main guides, into which he can fit in its proper place all his further historical study
Show Summary:
- Today on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn are back with their friend Erin Kunkle for another episode in our America250 series, focusing on presidential biographies and libraries
- How Erin became interested in US history in general and in the presidential libraries specifically
- How a membership to the presidential libraries works
- How Erin deals with things she disagrees with from various presidents’ lives and work
- Notable presidential biographies Erin has read
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Books and Links Mentioned:
Grover Cleveland Again!: A Treasury of American Presidents by Ken Burns
The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States by Alice Provensen
John Adams by David McCullough
Decision Points by George W. Bush
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
George Washington by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Mary Todd Lincold by Katherine Wilkie
Theodore Roosevelt by Genevieve Foster
George Washington’s Breakfast by Jean Fritz and Tomie de Paola
Wooden Teeth and Jelly Beans by Ray Nelson
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
My Father, My President by Doro Bush Koch
Abigail Adams by Natalie S. Bober
Ulysses S. Grant: An Album by William S. McFeely
Find Cindy, Dawn, and Erin:
Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group
Mere Motherhood Facebook Group
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…we can, at any rate, avoid giving children cut-and-dried opinions upon the course of history while they are yet young. What they want is graphic details concerning events and persons upon which imagination goes to work; and opinions tend to form themselves by slow degrees as knowledge grows.
Charlotte Mason, from Home Education, p. 288
