Awards
Homeschool.com “Back to Homeschool Award”
The Mystery of History received third place for high school history curriculum in 2022 with The Back to Homeschool Awards, and ranked highly in 2021. Homeschool.com is the one place where homeschoolers nominate and vote on their favorites and it’s a great place to find the most popular homeschool curriculum!
Cathy Duffy’s Review
Cathy Duffy named The Mystery of History a “100 Top Picks Winner!” Cathy is well known as a curriculum specialist. She researches curriculum and methodologies for all subjects and grade levels. Her latest book narrows her recommendation down to the “100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum”. You can read Cathy Duffy’s review of The Mystery of History in her new book.
Read her online review here: Cathy Duffy Reviews
Teach Them Diligently—Homeschool Family Favorites
The Mystery of History won again! We’ve ranked in the top three as a Homeschool Family Favorite in 2022, 2020, and 209. Thank you Teach Them Diligently!
Mary Pride and Practical Homeschooling
The Mystery of History Volume I won first place with “Practical Homeschooling” in 2009 and tied for first place in 2008!
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The Old Schoolhouse EE Award
The Mystery of History won the 1st Place “Excellence in Education Award” in 2019 and 2013 from The Old Schoolhouse and placed 3rd in 2008. The survey was designed for individual respondents to enter the name of their curriculum or product of choice for each category—-they were not given a set of choices from which to choose. Thus, The Mystery of History ranks high among the thousands of subscribers to “The Old Schoolhouse Magazine.”
About.com Reader’s Choice
The Mystery of History was part of the About.com Best Homeschool History Resource Contest and voted Reader’s Choice 2012 by About.com readers.
Homeschool Resource Award
Over the last month, Homeschool.com staff have researched different homeschooling products, curriculum, websites, and fun books, to come up with Homeschool.com’s Top Back to Homeschool Resources. The Mystery of History provides “Chronological, Christian, Complete” world history for students of all ages. This engaging series offers hands-on activities along with timelines, maps, literature suggestions, quizzes, and much more. The curriculum helps you/your student discover “His-Story.” Read More Online
Independent Reviews
Eclectic Homeschool Association
I’ve enthused about The Mystery of History for years now. Before we stumbled on this gem of a curriculum, we’d been using another curriculum very popular with Christian Classical educators, combined with lots of literature. I’d had to buy a Bible supplement for the Ancient history volume, and I was a little overwhelmed by all the projects in the project book. (No, you don’t have to do them, but if they’re there, staring you in the face…)
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Joy in Our Journey
Our family has been learning chronological, worldwide history with a biblical worldview for the last six years using a fabulous curriculum called The Mystery of History.
If you were able to study world history back in your school days, especially if you learned world history in relation to the Bible, then you were very blessed!
Trivium Pursuit
I wish The Mystery Of History had been written fifteen or twenty years earlier so that my own family could have used it. It would have been perfect for our large, young family and would have relieved me of the job of putting together my own history curriculum, and it is so much more thorough than anything we ever studied in our years of homeschooling.
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
If you are a family that is interested in studying history in an in-depth, Bible-centered, chronological fashion, let me recommend to you The Mystery of History, published by Bright Ideas Press. This 472-page volume is packed with information, projects, and suggestions to make history a favorite part of your family’s school day.
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
This time, Linda Hobar and Bright Ideas Press had twins! The Mystery of History Volume II is twice the size of the first volume, but every bit as wonderful. In fact, it is even better. The Mystery of History Volume II has 84 lessons, versus Volume I’s 108, but the lessons are longer and written at a slightly higher grade level. Each lesson has vocabulary words in bold letters so you can pick them out easily.
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
The Mystery of History, Volume III, is a gorgeous edition to the Mystery of History family. A full-color, glossy hardback with 439 pages, this is a whole different style of book than the previous volumes. Due to the reproduction restrictions for certain Renaissance artwork, the publishers decided to change the style rather than leave out the important pieces. While this increased the price of the book, I think it was worth it. There is nothing like seeing Renaissance art in all its vivid beauty.
Examiner.com
If you are looking for a new history curriculum for your family to use, I highly recommend The Mystery of History by Linda Hobar.
The Mystery of History is a study of world history split into three volumes, with a fourth volume currently in progress. Each volume includes coursework for one school year. The author aptly describes her work as “A Classical, Chronological, Complete Christian World History for All Ages.”
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