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This Classic Book Series Gave My Homeschooled Kids A Passion For History

From Gettysburg to a forgotten history book series, the past remains colorful — and teachable.

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A slow, stately procession wound around the couch where I sat trying to get through a few pages of reading. All five kids were swathed about the middle in towels, and my 5-year-old had rigged some sort of rigid contraption to his chin. Resting on a couch pillow, a stuffed animal was borne aloft over the heads of the motley crowd. Watching from a corner of my eye, I slowly realized that I was a witness to the splendid funeral of Tutankhamen. The procession headed off solemnly toward an unseen tomb in the hallway.

Book forgotten, I stared after them in delight. History had lifted itself off the school book pages and had become an imaginative world they could step into and explore.

Copious ink has been spilled on the stunning historical illiteracy of modern Americans, from pens on the left, right, and center. We’ve seen the surveys estimating that more than 80 percent of college seniors failed a high school history exam and that eighth grade history scores have stalled at a dismal level for at least the past 30 years. Generations of educators, parents, and students have taken history very lightly: My mother still complains that her sole high school history class in salt-of-the-earth Nebraska was “the history of the Beatles.”

The upshot? American national identity is in tatters. As Secretary of Education Linda McMahon noted in........

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