Year 4 - 1850 to the present This is primarily a list of books for a homeschool teacher (or a homeschooled high school student) to read along with a 4-year history cycle as laid out in The Well-Trained Mind. Non-fiction works should be of significant literary quality and reveal life and thought in the time period.
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Susanna - Censored by GoodReads If this is for books about 1850-present (guessing from the other lists), what is Albion's Seed doing here? It's about the American colonial period.


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Michele Thanks! I switched it to Year 3.


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