Unit 1: Britain's Empire (Sepoy Mutiny 1857)
Read-alouds: The Secret Garden
Biography: At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
Church History: Danish translation of the Book of Mormon (1851). Note family history connections.
Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young (bio. sketch, choose any chapter)
A Short History of Wisconsin ch 1-2
Presidents & Prophets: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler
Unit 2: West Against East (Crimean War 1853-1856)
History Reading: Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
Biography: Florence Nightingale(On My Own Biographies)
Church History: Handcart companies rescued (1856) and Johnston's Army (1857-1858)
Family History: Watch Mountain of the Lord. This includes the account of Johnston's Army, the burying of the Salt Lake Temple foundation, and the problems this caused, as well as Archibald Gardner's council to dig it out and start again.
Short History of Wisconsin ch 3-4
Presidents & Prophets: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor
Unit 3: British Invasion
Literature: The Jungle Book
Biography: David Livingstone: Courageous Explorer
Presidents & Prophets: Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce
Unit 4: Resurrection and Rebellion (Taiping Rebellion 1850-1864)
Church History: Tabernacle completed (1867) Read an address from conference on Oct 6 1867
Additional topic: Fugitive Slave Law/The Underground Railroad. What was the Underground Railroad. The Last Safe House by Greenwood
Dread Scott Decision (We the People: Civil War Era)
Literature: My Indian Boyhood by Little Standing Bear
Short History of Wisconsin ch 5-6
Presidents & Prophets: James Buchanan
Unit 5: American Civil War (1861-1865)
Church History: CHFT chapter 30 deals with the Civil War. Joseph's prophecies to Douglas
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (We The People: Civil War Era)
Biographies: Ulysses S. Grant by David C. King, and in the series, also Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.
Additional Reading: (Little Women). Behind Rebel Lines, Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglas: The Story Behind an American Friendship. More from A Short History of Wisconsin.
Church History: Abraham Lincoln and the Church from this BYU essay.
Short History of Wisconsin ch 7-8
Presidents & Prophets: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln: the Gettysburg Address
Additional topics: Read Riders of the Pony Express by Moody, Old Yeller by Fred Gipson, Germ Hunter: A Story About Louis Pasteur
Unit 6: Two Tries for Freedom
Presidents & Prophets: Andrew Johnson
Additional Literature: Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood
Unit 7: Two Republics, Three Empires, One Kingdom
Movie: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Presidents & Prophets: Ulysses S. Grant
Unit 8: Becoming Modern
Biographies: DK Biography: Thomas Edison
Literature: Ten Mile Day And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
Church History: CHFT chapter 31 deals with the coming of the transcontinental railroad; All That Was Promised by Yorgason
Family History: The diary of Robert Gardner includes a section on his family's sacrifices to provide wood for the St. George Temple.
Units 9 & 10: Two More Empires, Two More Rebellions;
A Canal to the East, and a Very Dry Desert (Suez Canal 1869)
Additional Reading: Krakatoa by Nardo
Family History: The Life of Archibald Gardner
Units 11 & 12: The Far Parts of the World;
Unhappy Union
Additional Reading: Feed the Children First by Lyons
Additional Topic: Booker T Washington: Great American Educator
Church History: Signers appear to Wilford Woodruff; Death of Brigham Young. CHFT 416-421.
Unit 13:Old Fashioned Emperor & the Red Sultan
Unit 14: Two Czars & Two Emperors
Additional Reading: Before the Communist Revolution by Kallen
Discuss commentary on communism by prophets and apostles in A Glorious Standard
Church History: A Decade of Persecution (1877-87), CHFT 422
The House of the Lord: Cache Valley and the Logan Temple(DVD) (1884)
Additional Topic: Statue of Liberty (1885) Lady Liberty: A Biography
Unit 15: Small Countries with Large Invaders
Teachings of the Presidents: John Taylor (bio. sketch, choose any chapter)
Additional Reading: Ellis Island: An Interactive History Adventure
Additional Topic: Segregation/Plessy v. Fergussin (1896) Plessy V. Ferguson: Separate But Equal? (Landmark Supreme Court Cases)
Church History: The Case of Brigham H. Roberts of Utah & The Reed Smoot Hearings CHFT465-470
Unit 16: Expanding United States
Additional Reading: Caddie Woodlawn by Brink; Little House in the Big Woods by Wilder. People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families, Native People of Wisconsin, They Came to Wisconsin. More from A Short History of Wisconsin.
Church History: Salt Lake Temple - Mountain of the Lord(DVD) Note family history connections.
Units 17 & 18: China's Troubles
Europe and the Countries Just East
Church History: The Manifesto, CHFT 439
Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff (bio. sketch, choose any chapter)
William McKinley 2 Inaugural Addresses (1897, 1901)
Additional Topic: Klondike Gold Rush (1897). Call of the Wild by London
Church History: President Woodruff dies; Lorenzo Snow becomes Prophet: CHFT 452
Solving the Church's Financial Problems: CHFT 454-456
Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow (bio. sketch, choose any chapter)
Unit 19: China, Vietnam - and France
Legend of the Teddy Bear by Murphy
Additional Reading: Water Buffalo Days by Nhuong
Church History: 1909 Statement by the First Presidency on the Origins of Man & Evolution CHFT 488-489
Additional Topic: The Wright Brothers: A Graphic Novel
Biography: DK Biography: Marie Curie
Additional Literature: Cheaper By the Dozen
Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph F Smith (bio. sketch, choose any chapter)
Unit 20: Revolution in the Americas... War in the World
Additional Reading: Where Poppies Grow by Grandield
Stubby the War Dog by Bausum
In Flanders Fields by Granfield
DK Eyewittness: World War I
Woodrow Wilson's 2nd Inaugural Address (1917)
Unit 21: A Revolution Begins, and the Great War Ends
Additional Reading: Cher Ami: WWI Homing Pigeon by Dunn
Additional Literature: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cricket in Times Square
Biography: Albert Einstein by Wishinsky,
Unit 22: National Uprisings
Additional Reading: Gandhi by Demi, The Kingfisher Treasury of Irish Stories, by James Riordan
Unit 23: "Peace" and a Man of War
Additional Reading: The Russian People in 1914
Unit 24: The King and Il Duce
Additional Reading: Fascism by Downing
Unit 25: Armies in China
Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1st & 2nd Innaugural Addresses (1933, 1937)
Unit 26: The Great Crash and What Came of It
Additional Reading: American Voices from the Great Depression by Ruggiero
Church History: The Church in the Great Depression CHFT 509-516. The First Presidency and the New Deal: Letter to the Treasury in 1941 Speech: The Law of Consecration by Victor L. Brown
Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant (bio. sketch, choose any chapter)
Unit 27: Civil War & Invasion
Additional Reading: Armistice: 1918
Unit 28: The Second World War
Additional Literature: Number the Stars by Lois Lowery, World War II by Willmott
Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith (bio. sketch, choose any chapter)
Unit 29: The End of World War II
Additional Reading: 1000 Paper Cranes, The Berlin Wall by Grant
Dwight D. Eisenhauer's Inaugural Addresses (1953, 1957)
Unit 30-34: skip
Unit 35: The Cold War
Additional Reading: The Space Race by Collins
JTeachings of the Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay (bio. sketch, choose any chapter)
Speech: Socialism and the United Order by Marion G. Romney
Unit 36: Struggles and Assassinations
Additional Reading: SB Fuller: Pioneer in Black Economic Development; SB Fuller's speech: "It's Not Racial Barriers That Keep Blacks From Prospering." Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone
Lyndon B Johnson's Inaugural Address (1965)
OK. That looks like plenty. More than enough. It's so hard to guess where we need to be in a year and a half or more. Maybe I should enroll myself in "Overachievers' Anonymous." But hey, no matter what I plan, we'll likely do less, so it makes more sense to me to make ambitious plans and have good achievement, than it does to make moderate plans and do only an adequate amount. In any case, we'll adjust as we go along when we get there. And planning now lets me buy the books a bit at a time. My budget likes that.
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