And instead, when I'm thinking about a book like, think about as an adult, books by David McCullough, right?

His biography of John Adams.

I know many people have either read or watched the mini-series.

A book like that, an adult will come and they will read.

And while it's nonfiction, it's written in this way that connects you to the story and it connects you to the people

involved. And so I think that's a really big difference. When I'm setting my idea about studying

history against textbooks, I'm really trying to set up at this distinction between something

written by committee that's just dry and boring and doesn't engage your your whole self at all with something

that's written in a narrative style.

This is your morning basket where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day.

Hello, and welcome to episode 111 of the Your Morning Basket podcast.

I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and I am so happy that you're joining me here today.

Well, today on the podcast,

we're talking about a subject that is near and dear to my heart. I have always loved and been

fascinated with the study of history, even though for years and years when I was in school,

it wasn't all that exciting. Did anybody else have a coach for a high school history teacher

who made you copy pages out of the book? Yep, that was totally our assignment at least once a

week. But despite that, good stories always helped me to be a lover of history. And that's what we're going to be chatting about on

today's episode of the podcast. My good friend Amy Sloan from Humility and Doxology is here,

and she's going to be chatting with us about how she teaches history in her homeschool without

using a textbook at all. Now, one of the resources that Amy and I chat about using today is actually our history

morning time plans over at your morning basket.

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