A list of stuff that we used alongside Hakim's History of Us history books in our homeschool. We took a little over a year to go through volumes 1 through 4. We're in volume 5 now and I'll make another list when that's shuffled through some. :) A lot (but not all) of these resources skew a little younger than the intended audience of the History of Us books; this is because they were picked with my younger child's needs an interests in mind while dovetailing with the History of Us topics.
Volume 1. The First Americans, Prehistory-1600
Human Prehistory
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mammoth Hunter
The First Dog
Mysterious Bones: The Story of Kennewick Man
Native life and stories
Turquoise Boy: A Navajo Legend
Ka-Ha-Si and the Loon: An Eskimo Legend
Opossum and the Great Firemaker: A Mexican Legend
Quillworker: A Cheyenne Legend
Dancing Drum: A Cherokee Legend
Clamshell Boy: A Makah Legend
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
likely a bunch more, we really got into these
Eyewitness North American Indian
Field trip to local sites/museums
European Discovery and Colonization
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 (Mann)
The Discovery of the Americas (Maestro)
Westward With Columbus (Dyson/Christopher)
Francisco Coronado (Nardo)
Lost Temple of the Aztecs
Secrets in Stone: All About Maya Hieroglyphs
The Inca: Activities and Crafts from a Mysterious Land
Horrible Histories Aztecs and Inca
Good Queen Bess (Stanley)
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
The Life and Times of Corn (Micucci)
Field trip to the southwest (using resources in this post)
Volume 2. Making Thirteen Colonies, 1600-1740
Topic: Jamestown
Double Life of Pocahontas
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Watched the Disney version of Pocahontas and compared it to the story from other sources
Mayflower and Plimoth
Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626
Mayflower 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim Voyage
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving
Salem Witch Trials
Mysteries in History (Salem Witch Trials chapter)
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Salem Witch
Colonial Life
You Wouldn't Want to Be An American Colonist
Sign of the Beaver (historical fiction)
Calico Bush (historical fiction)
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
Volume 3. From Colonies to Country, 1735-1791
Revolutionary Life
American Girl Felicity Books and Felicity's World
Cooking Up US History (full of recipes for many American history time periods)
Revolutionary War
Eyewitness American Revolution
George vs. George
Johnny Tremain (historical fiction) with a Scholastic lit guide alongside
Liberty's Kids videos
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy
You Wouldn't Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party
George Washington, Spymaster
Volume 4. The New Nation, 1789-1850
Lewis & Clark
How We Crossed the West
National Geographic documentary
Seaman's Journal
Lewis & Clark for Kids
You Wouldn't Want to Explore with Lewis and Clark
Field trip
War of 1812
American Girl Caroline books
USKids History: Book of the New American Nation (Brown Paper School)
Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
