The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

by Susan Wise Bauer

Bunting, Eve. The Wall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. $6.99. A little boy is taken to find his grandfather’s name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Carey, Charles W. The Emancipation Proclamation. Chanhassen, MN: Child’s World, 2014. $20.95. Part of the Journey to Freedom series, this informative book for young students is available as an ebook only. A Coloring Book of Our Presidents, Washington through Clinton. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1999. $4.95. Contemporary portraits of each president. Conklin, Wendy. The Cold War. Huntington Beach, CA: Teacher Created Materials, 2013. $8.99. Heavily illustrated introduction to communism, the arms race and the space race, the Berlin Wall, the Korean War, the Cuban crisis, and the Vietnam conflict, all readable on a fourth-grade level. Copeland, Peter F. Famous Women of the Civil War Coloring Book. New York: Dover, 1999. $3.99. ________. Story of the Civil War Coloring Book. New York: Dover, 1991. $3.99. Demuth, Patricia Brennan. What Was D-Day?, illus. David Grayson. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2015. $5.99. Interesting and age-appropriate coverage of the events leading up to D-Day as well as the invasion itself. ________. What Was Pearl Harbor? illus. John Mantha. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2013. $5.99. The events of December 7, 1941, and what came after. Dubois, Muriel L. The U.S. House of Representatives. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2003. $7.29. Simple and heavily illustrated guide. ________. The U.S. Presidency. Mankato,...