Great Deal for Homeschoolers: Free History DVD

Posted by Lorren on April 30, 2010

I was watching America: The Story of Us on the History Channel (it’s a great series, I highly recommend it for both you and your kids), and I noticed that they were giving away a copy of the video to every classroom in America (or that was their goal). I figured that I’d take a look to see if that included homeschool families, although I doubted it.

To my surprise, I discovered that to be eligible for the free DVD, the “School must be an accredited public, private or home school, grades K-12 and college.” Now, I’m not sure what an accredited homeschool is, but I signed up for the DVD. They said that it would be on its way this summer in time for the fall semester.

I have the first episode on Tivo; I’ll try to get my daughter to watch the video tomorrow. We have already been over American History from Columbus through the Civil War, so this will be review; however, I started teaching her about Columbus when she was 5, so she really doesn’t remember much from back then.

So far, they showed Episodes 1 and 2 on Sunday. There are things in there that I didn’t know, and I have been through AP American History, have read extensively on History, and am currently reading A Patriot’s History of the United States. I’ve also read a great deal of The Real George Washington. I haven’t seen too much bias… yet… although I do expect to see some bias when they start talking about the Great Depression.