Homeschool - Heritage Mom

Historic Home Field Trips: Frederick Douglass’ Cedar Hill

I love taking historic home field trips with my family. Scroll to the end to check out the article I wrote for Simple Homeschool to learn more about...

Picture Books Aren’t Just for Little Kids

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Picture books aren't just for little kids. Some of the best books my family has read are illustrated children’s books intended for a young audience...

Delighting in the Days by Wild+Free

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I'm excited to be featured in Delighting in the Days, a new 132-page book of some of Wild+Free's best articles on childhood over the past few years....

Books & Things: Agreeing to Disagree

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I’ve made a point not to disparage curricula, books, services, or products that fellow homeschool moms have created for this community. In fact,...

Stories From Modern Day Africa

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For world history and geography studies, I like for my kids to read plenty of stories from modern-day Africa. I've shared picture books and chapter...

20th-Century Black History Books

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These 20th-Century Black History Books cover a period of history during which segregation tightened and racial oppression escalated across the...

Morning Time Plans (1900s)

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These morning time plans cover the subjects and activities that we'll do together as a family. Some things are done daily; others are one to three...

Black American Fiction (1900s)

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Most of the titles in this booklist of Black American fiction are truly historical fiction, taking readers to a past time and place. However, a...

Topical Nonfiction Black History Books (1900s)

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I rely heavily on topical nonfiction Black history books in our school lessons. As mentioned in my post on Infusing Black History into a Traditional...

African American Biographies & Memoirs (1900s)

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African American biographies and memoirs are critical components of our history lessons. In my book A PLACE TO BELONG, I write, "Biographies help us...