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All Through the Ages History Through Literature Guide

Reviewed By Harriet Yoder, Lamp Post Homeschool Store

A great guide to good books called All Through the Ages is the resource you need if you are teaching your history or geography with a literature, notebook, or unit study approach. If you can't afford any other history resource, this is a must have book. Why? The author, Christine Miller, compiled a list of commonly available books which are "useful for learning history through literature--real books--rather than textbooks."

Unlike other lists which may have an abundance of out of print or unavailable books, the author used a wide variety of current home school catalogs and other sources to make her list. She has two major listings in All Through the Ages: Chronological History (subdivided by time period) and Geographical History (subdivided by geographical regions, cultures, or countries). In addition there are three smaller lists: History of Science and Mathematics, History of the Arts, and Great Books of Western Civilization and the Christian Tradition.

Genre

To make it easy to look up books by genre for the study of a specific time period or country, the listings in each subdivision are divided by reading level and type of book:

• Resources for all ages
• Overview of the era
• Specific Events
• Biography
• Historical fiction
• Literature
• Culture

Timelines

That would make a quite wonderful book by itself, but there are also timelines in the Chronological History section. It is so easy to select books for your study when the timeline is in the same section for easy reference.

This review may sound rather "cut and dry" because it is rather like reviewing a very good dictionary. Until you use it, it is hard to see the difference.  Christine Miller's All Through the Ages is a history through literature guide with a "difference." It will inspire your studies and help your homeschool adventure to be far more interesting. I highly recommend it!

If you like to study history this way, you will also like the Guerber History Series.

All Through the Ages

All Through the Ages: History Through Literature Guide 2008

By Christine Miller

 An excellent multi-level guide, All Through the Ages is a "compilation of over 5,600 of the best living books and great literature, arranged by chronological era, geographical region, and reading level, from many respected resources." Use All Through the Ages to find great books for your history studies if you use a literature approach, a unit study approach. If you are using a traditional curriculum, use the guide to find supplementary reading for your children. It's a Lamp Post Homeschool Store Favorite!

This is being revised and updated. It is due from the publisher in May.