Comments on: How to help your kids fall in love with history https://simplehomeschool.net/history/ Never let your schooling interrupt your education. Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:10:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Lucy Gibson https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-616834 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-616834 I’ve always loved reading history and biographies. My daughter is now starting to ask a lot of questions about things that happened a long time ago. I love your point about how biographies help the reader make a connection that could get lost in a regular textbook. I think it’s time for me to find another good history book that I can sink my teeth into.

]]> By: Justin Gregoire https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-94798 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-94798 I think the most irritating thing about taking history throughout school was tests. I got the history, enjoyed learning it, but the instructor would come up with the most irrelevant questions to put on the test. It was as though they just skimmed through the entire textbook and pulled out whatever random fact they happened to come across. For instance, “Which New York senator made this statement during the 1896 elections: ….” Wait, what?

]]> By: Kerry G https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-94770 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-94770 I love the way that biographies bring history to life. And when it comes to regular history books, I find that books with a social history slant, telling about the average person’s life, work much better for a lot of kids than the type of textbook that focuses on wars and presidents.

]]> By: Sue Humes https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-94759 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-94759 Would love to find a list of historical fiction and biographies. What do you use? My kids are 5th & 7th grade. Thanks!

]]> By: Mindy https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-94756 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-94756 I was exactly the same way! I HATED history growing up. But I love it now and so do my kids. We use Story of the World which has made all the difference but the biggest thing is the way the information is presented. Biographies are great – my kids love to read the Who Was…. series and even Kingfisher’s Encyclopedia of History. When it is their idea they get so much more out of it.

]]> By: Julia https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-94752 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-94752 I wish I had read more biographies as a child and young adult. But it’s never too late to start, right?

]]> By: Martha Artyomenko https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-94745 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-94745 I think it is easy to forget that history is a story of people from the past, and we get lost in the dates, timelines and places and forget the fun in it!

I love using historical fiction and biographies!

]]> By: Carrie https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-94738 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-94738 My daughter has loved the series of Who Was (FDR, Edison, Goodall, Beatles, etc) and now What Was (March on Washington, Gold Rush)… a simplistic way to grow the joy of reading about history.

]]> By: Julie D https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-94737 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-94737 My eight year old is really enjoying the Little House series right now. She specifically asked to read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s biography and is thoroughly enjoying that as well.

]]> By: Kris @ Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers https://simplehomeschool.net/history/#comment-94735 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=24795#comment-94735 In reply to Karin Fulgham.

We’ve really enjoyed the Heroes of History books by Janet and Geoff Benge. We’ve particularly enjoyed reading about Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Edison from that series.

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