Here is a chronological list of additional resources for studying MOH4 (1708 – now).
Check back – we will update these lists as we gather more information.
High School suggestions: AH = American History; AL = American Literature; LIT = High School Literature
E=Elementary; M=Middle Grades (4/5th-8th); H=High School
NR=No Review; *=Enjoyed; info=information given
| Year | MOH4 Topic | Focus | |
| M – Book Review: The Ravenmaster’s Secret: Escape from the Tower of London (1735) | |||
| 1734-1760A.D. | Great Awakening | Field Trip: Museum of the Bible | |
| 1752 | Ben Franklin | AH | H – NR – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
| 1754-1763 | The French and Indian War | LIT | M/H – * –Book Review: Indian Captive & Field Trip ideas |
| 1765-1776 | American Revolution – Part 1 | AH | M/H – NR, * – Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold by Jean Fritz |
| 1776 – 1783 | American Revolution – Part 2 | M – NR – The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac (1777: Quaker during Rev. War) | |
| AH | M/H – NR – Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz (1787) | ||
| AH | M/H – * – Book Review: Fever 1793 (1793: Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia) | ||
| M – NR – Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster by Albert Marrin (1796: Smallpox Vaccination) | |||
| 1803, 1804, 1806 | Louisiana Purchase, Lewis & Clark, Zebulon Pike | M – Book Review: The Broken Blade (1800: fur-trade in Canada) Field Trip: Family River Ideas | |
| AH | M/H – NR – Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac | ||
| M – Book Review: Mary Jones and Her Bible (1800) | |||
| AH | M/H – Book Review: The Great Little Madison & Field Trip ideas (1809-1817 4th President of US) | ||
| 1830 | The Trail of Tears | M – NR – Only the Names Remain by Alex W. Bealer | |
| LIT | M/H – * – Book Review: They Loved to Laugh (1830s) | ||
| M – Book Review: Nory Ryan’s Song (1845-1852: potato blight) | |||
| LIT | H – NR – The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| LIT | M/H – NR – Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen (1852: Oregon Trail) | ||
| October 1854 | Florence Nightingale: “Lady with the Lamp” | M – NR – Heart & Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale by Gena K. Gorrell | |
| M – NR – The Great Trouble by Deborah Hopkinson (1854: London Cholera epidemic) | |||
| LIT | M/H – **, NR – Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (1859: Canadian settlement of runaway slaves) | ||
| 1861-1862 | The War Between the States: Part 1 | M – NR – The River Between Us by Richard Peck | |
| AH | M/H – NR – The Boys’ War by Jim Murphy (Civil War: Young soldiers‘ diaries, letters, photos, etc.) | ||
| 1863-1865 | The War Between the States: Part 2 | AH | M/H – NR – The Slopes of War by N.A. Perez (1863: Battle of Gettysburg) |
| AH | M/H – NR – Dragon’s Gate by Laurence Yep (1867: Chinese laborers dig Railroad tunnel through Sierra Nevada Mountains) | ||
| LIT | M/H – NR – Bonanza Girl by Patricia Beatty (1880s: Idaho gold fields) | ||
| M – * – Book Review: The Secret Garden (early 1900s) | |||
| 1914-1916 | WWI: Part 1 | M – * – Book Review: A Cup of Cold Water (nurse Edith Cavell) | |
| 1917-1918 | WWI: Part 2 | AH | M/H – NR – The Yanks are Coming by Albert Marrin |
| AH | M/H – *, NR – Moonshiner’s Son by Carolyn Reeder (1920: Prohibition in the Blue Ridge Mountains of VA) | ||
| 1929 | The Great Depression | LIT | M/H – *, NR – Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse |
| LIT | H – * – Book Review: To Kill a Mockingbird | ||
| LIT | H – * – Book Review: Before We Were Yours (1930s: Tennessee Children’s Home Society scandal) | ||
| 1933-1945 | Holocaust | M – * – Book Review: Hana’s Suitcase M/H – * – Book Review: Parallel Journeys M – NR – Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Copenhagen 1943: Danish girl helps hide a Jewish family) | |
| Sept 3, 1939 – Sept 15, 1930 | WWII: Part 1 | M/H – Book Review; The War That Saved My Life (1939 England: children are evacuated to the countryside) | |
| M – NR, * – Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (1940 Norway: children help smuggle gold past Nazi soldiers) | |||
| M – NR, * – For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (1940 France: 14-year-old Suzanne David becomes a spy) | |||
| AH | H – NR – World War II: The Rest of the Story and How It Affects You Today by Rick Maybury & Jane Williams | ||
| AH | M/H – NR – Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston (Memoirs of her time at a Japanese interment camp) | ||
| Oct 28, 1940 – Dec 7, 1941 | WWII: Part 2 | M – NR – The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (Jun 1941: Hautzig’s exile to Siberia as a Polish “political enemy”) | |
| Apr 9, 1942 – Jun 6, 1944 | WWII: Part 3 | M – NR – Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serraillier (Poland 1942: How 3 children survive on their own during WWII) | |
| LIT | M/H – * – Book Review: Wolf Hollow (1943) | ||
| Dec 16, 1944 – Sep 2, 1945 | WWII: Part 4 | M – ** – Book Review: An Elephant in the Garden (Dresden Bombing, Feb 1945) | |
| LIT | H – * – Book Review: Fahrenheit 451 (Published 1953) | ||
| AH | M/H – NR – Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman (1955-56: Montgomery Bus Boycott) | ||
| AH | M/H – NR – The Wave by Todd Strasser (1969: Palo Alto, CA history class fascism experiment) | ||
| M – Book Review: Chu Ju’s House (1979-2015: China’s one-child-policy) | |||
| LIT | M/H – ** – Book Review: A Solitary Blue (1980s) | ||
| M – NR – The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (late 1990s, Afghanistan: a girl helps her family survive during Taliban control) | |||
| LIT | H – NR – The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore (1990s+ Baltimore: 2 kids, same city, different life choices) | ||
| LIT | M/H – *, NR – The Giver by Lois Lowry (Published 1993) | ||
| 2001 – | Global War on Terror | M – * – Book Review: Operation Yes (2003-present: Afghanistan & Iraq wars) | |
| LIT | M/H – NR – Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson (2017: women mentors & role models) |
- Related – MOH = The Mystery of History
- Related – MOH1 – Mystery of History I
- Related – MOH2 – Mystery of History II
- Related – MOH3 – Mystery of History III
- Related – Book Review: Grammar of Poetry
- Related – Handwriting: My Journey
