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This Country of Ours Review

This is free online, but having it in print makes it much easier to use. We home school and use this for history. I read the narrative and they supplement with biographies and historical fiction. My kids LOVE it.

This Country of Ours Overview

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CONTENTS

PART I
STORIES OF EXPLORERS AND PIONEERS

PART II
STORIES OF VIRGINIA

PART III
STORIES OF NEW ENGLAND

PART IV
STORIES OF THE MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN COLONIES

PART V
STORIES OF THE FRENCH IN AMERICA

PART VI
STORIES OF THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY

PART VII
STORIES OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION

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Customer Reviews

throw on the recycle pile - Jude Keck -
Like some other reviewers I bought this book due to the Ambleside Online recommendations. I got as far as the early explorers before I noticed the anti-Catholic bias. Then I looked for the section on the Mormons noted by another reviewer. Do not give this book to your child. Even if you are Protestant, do not give this book to your child unless you are willing to sit with them through every chapter and explain the author's bias. I am sure I can find a better American History resource.



Good, with one serious exception - J. Heath -
We've been using this book, along with Our Island Story (history of England) by the same author, for about the past 5 months in homeschooling. They have been enjoying it and learning from it, and on the whole I like both books very much. I plan to continue using them because there is nothing comparable out there that tells history in story-fashion in such a way that alot of information is imparted but in a readable, non-textbook format.

However, recently in both books I have discovered some serious anti-Catholic bias. I now know that I cannot simply read along and blindly trust the book, but must research certain topics to either correct or to supplement the biases presented in this book. It's a shame. In this book, this has arisen for the first time in the chapters on founding certain colonies in the United States. Catholic explorers or explorers from Catholic countries are ascribed negative motivations and actions that are not always historically true or unbiased. Given the topics that lie ahead in the book, I expect this slant will arise again.



Good book, not the best edition - K. Wickward - Seattle, WA
Although Ms. Marshall is clearly a product of her time, I found that in many instances she could have chosen sides, but instead she took a fair position. That said, this edition of the book, should you choose it, is not the best. It does not have the illustrations mentioned in another review, and lacks any dates at all (I'm assuming that's how it was written originally) - making it difficult to build a timeline from it or to get a sense of the passage of time. I prefer to use the version online at Celebration of Women Writers, which has annotations in the margins.

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