G. A. HENTY BOOKS CORRELATED WITH
STREAMS OF CIVILIZATION

A homeschooler on the This link goes off-site.Unofficial Weaver E-mail List to which I belong inquired whether the Streams of Civilization volumes would help her get a better understanding of history from a Christian perspective. Because I had purchased these volumes, I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents worth. The article below is an edited version of what I posted.

Publication Information

Streams of Civilization

Volume I

Authors: Mary Stanton & Alberta Hyma, 1976
Publisher: Christian Liberty Press, Arlington Heights, Illinois
Project Sponsored By: Institute for Creation Research

Volume II

Author: Garry J. Moes, 1995
Publisher: Christian Liberty Press

Using Streams of Civilization

I read the first volume and was impressed with the authors' ability to present world history in a truly objective way so that it could be used in public schools of their era but yet be appreciated by Christian home schoolers. I have found the books to be a great research resource. They're well organized and full of maps, diagrams, photos, interesting sidebars, etc. Each chapter's title page contains a list of projects and a list of words/concepts.

G. A. Henty

I really like the idea of using living books to learn history, and had heard that G. A. Henty was an awesome historical writer--so I checked him out. After I was satisified that my children and I would learn a lot by reading Henty's books, I decided to correlate as many of his books with our Streams of Civilization study as possible. I made a purple sticky label about each book for which I was able to find the complete text or audio file online. (They are available in print; I just couldn't afford to purchase them.) Then I put these stickies on pages of Streams of Civilization where I wanted to stop and read a living book to flesh out and bring life to our studies.

Since my first child was old enough to do this on his own (and since his father and I were going to be out of the country for a couple of weeks) I thought he would appreciate being allowed his independence. I typed up some general instructions for This is a PDF file.studying world history using Streams of Civilization and printed off an internet page listing the This link goes off-site.G. A. Henty books that were available online. I put these into a duotang folder with photocopies of the first few chapter title pages and the book's cover.

If you are using Streams of Civilization, I think you'd appreciate this system. We never got around to using it in our home school, but I did read the first Henty book on my list, and learned an awful a lot! G. A. Henty is an awesome writer and his books are the only ones I made stickies for (because I thought we wouldn't have time to read anything else). If you want to build on this idea, just make stickies for the other Henty books and/or your own favourite author(s).

Just in case you'd find it useful, here's where I put my Henty stickies:

STREAMS OF CIVILIZATION, VOLUME I

  • page 139. Chapter 7--Rise of the Roman Republic--"The Young Carthaginian" about Hannibal's campaigns 220 B.C.


  • page 155. Chapter 7--Rise of the Roman Republic--"Beric the Briton" about Roman conquest 61 A.D.


  • page 249. Chapter 12--England, the Norsemen, and the Age of Chivalry--"The Dragon and the Raven" about King Alfred's wars 870 A.D.


  • page 345. Chapter 16--Nationalism and the Renaissance--"In Freedom's Cause" about Bannockburn 1314 A.D., "St. George for England" about Crecy & Poitiers 1340 A.D., "A March on London" about Wat Tyler's rebellion 1381 A.D., "At Agincourt" about Agincourt (Europe, France) 1415 A.D., and "A Knight of the White Cross" about the first siege of Rhodes (Europe) 1480 A.D.


    • STREAMS OF CIVILIZATION, VOLUME 2

  • page 24. Chapter 2--European Expansion and Counter Reformation: Spanish Conquests--"By Pike & Dyke" about the Spanish-Dutch war 1579 A.D., "By England's Aid" about the Spanish Armada 1588 A.D., and "The Bravest of the Brave" about the War of Spanish Succession 1705 A.D.


  • page 34. Chapter 2--European Expansion and Counter Reformation: The Thirty Years' War--"The Lion of the North" about the Thirty Years' war 1630 A.D.


  • page 99. Chapter 5--Republican Independence and the French Revolution--"Bonnie Prince Charlie" about Culloden (Britain/Scotland) 1745 A.D.


  • page 115. Chapter 5--Republican Independence and the French Revolution: Decline of the Old Regime in France--"In the Reign of Terror" about the French Revolution 1793 A.D.


  • page 220. Chapter 9--The Spread of Democratic Nationalism: Representative Government in North America--"With Lee in Virginia" about the American Civil War 1860 A.D.


  • page 234. Chapter 10--The Advance of European Imperialism: India--"In Times of Peril" about Indian mutiny 1856 A.D.


    • Millennium Time Line System

    Note: There was a time line chart with the Streams of Civilization that I was quite intrigued with, and I incorporated some of the ideas into the time line system I subsequently developed. I call it the Millennium Time Line System (MTLS). You can find out more about it at the Millennium Time LIne System Introduction page.

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