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	• This Country Of Ours H. E. Marshall Filiquarian, 2007 - 642 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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This Country of Ours

A great book easy for children ages 8 yrs old to adults to read. It presents the facts about history and the lives of the men and women that is often lost in history books in this present day. There are Christian morals and Biblical truths discussed in the lives of our forefathers. I highly recommend this interesting book.

Wonderfully interesting!

This book is wonderfully well written, and captivating for children (8-11 yr olds) and adults. There is exactly the perspective one would expect from an author writing in 1917, and I would suggest using additional works to suplement this for elementary history education. For example, when describing how Florida became a state the author writes as though the indigenous Native Americans occupying the land agreed to relocate. The reality is, as with much of our country's history, the Indians were forcibly, and often brutally, removed and displaced from their homeland. The idea that the US Government acted inappropriately is not even hinted at! That being said, we have used this text in homeschooling, and are enthralled with the the storytelling style. It is important to use a variety of sources for a well rounded education--and to take advantage of a more mature and realistic perspective that only hindsight can provide.

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Nice compliment to Hisory at Our House curriculum

My two daughters (aged 9 & 7) have studied American history this year using the History at Our House curriculum (www.historyatourhouse.com). We've enjoyed reading H.E. Marshall's This Country Of Ours alongside HaOH. My girls enjoyed hearing some of the stories Mr. Powell told
again and hearing a few different ones. Often the girls would expound on
ideas with which they were familiar and re-tell them in their own words. It was great way to check their understanding and allow them to process the material an additional time.

Well written history book

It seems to me that since the other reviewer is so coy about this subject he or she knew so much about, we have to take an anonymous stranger's word for it that an unknown subject had some unknown errors that rendered the entire book unreadable. If we were allowed to know for ourselves what the topic was, then perhaps we could judge for ourselves.

IMO, Mrs. Marshall tells a riveting story of America's history that cannot help but engage the attention and hearts of young readers. Because she wrote a hundred years ago she sometimes uses terms I would not (savages)- I just change the word.

She did her homework well but the best historical research available to her at the time is not always the best historical research available to us at this time- so I explain that. It's a great way to help children learn that perspectives in history change and that point of view influence the retelling.

I have yet to see a history book which does not have a viewpoint or historical information with which I differ. I can fix those things. H.E. Marshall's engaging, delightful, interesting writing style needs no alteration, and I can't fix tepid writing as easily as I can an errant fact.

Her book is available online as an etext, and I suggest those interested look it up and read a few pages and make up their own minds.

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This Country of Ours is a classic work featuring details of United States history from settlement through the Woodrow administration. Included among the ninety-nine chapters are accounts of exploration, pioneers, settlement in the new world and the founding of the constitution. This is an excellent timeless work which is great for students and scholars of all ages and available here in a paperback book edition.