100 Fabulous Books That Will Make You Love History

Today I’ve got a huge list of books for teaching history to use in your homeschool or just for fun. 

I split them up by Ancient History, Medieval History, Early American and Modern American History.

We have read or used about 98% of these and the others are on our list! I hope you get some good ideas for your history class here!

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100 Fabulous Books for Teaching History

History Reference Books

1. Usborne’s Book of World Religion
2. World History Encyclopedia
3. The Timetables of History
4. Timelines of World History
5. Ten Queens by Milton Metzler
6. Ten Kings by Milton Metzler

Books for Teaching History: The Ancients

1. Story of the World vol. 1
2. Celebrating Biblical Feasts: In your Home or Church by Martha Zimmerman
3. Gladiators by Minna Lacey & Susanna Davidson
4. Classic Starts: The Odyssey
5. Classic Starts: Greek Myths
6. Classic Starts: The Iliad
7. The 5-Minute Iliad by Greg Nagan
8. The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII
9. What Was Pompeii?
10. Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick
11. The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus by Aliki
12. Literature Pockets: Greek & Roman Myths
13. Literature Pockets: Ancient Civilizations
14. Literature Pockets: Ancient Greece
15. Literature Pockets: Ancient Egypt
16. Literature Pockets: Ancient Rome
17. Old Testament Days: An Activity Guide by Nancy Sanders
18. Walk with Y’Shua Through the Jewish Year by Janie-Sue Wertheim
19. The Passover Seder by Emily Sper
20. Tomie dePaola’s Book of Bible Stories
21. Leonardo and the Flying Boy by Laurence Anholt
22. Katie and the Mona Lisa by James Mayhew
23. Shakespeare for Children (CD) by Jim Weiss
24. Classical Kids by Laurie Carlson
25. Ancient Greece by Susan Altman
26. Cleopatra by Diane Stanley
27. Kingfisher Atlas of the Ancient World
28. The Usborne Internet-Linked Roman World
29. A Child’s Introduction to Greek Mythology
30. The Story of the Ancient World

Middle-Ages: Books for Teaching History

1. Story of the World vol. II
2. The Knight at Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne
3. Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard
4. Days of Knights and Damsels
5. Saints Lives and Illuminations by Ruth Sanderson
6. See Inside Castles
7. Crispin by Avi
8. The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
9. Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
10. The Story of King Arthur
11. The Royal Diaries: Elizabeth I
12. Marguerite Makes a Book by Bruce Robertson
13. Famous Men of the Middle Ages
14. A Medieval Feast by Aliki
15. Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
16. Around the World in a Hundred Years by Jean Fritz
17. Castle by David Macaulay
18. Johan Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press
19. Columbus by Edgar Parin D’Aulaires
20. William Shakespeare and the Globe by Aliki
21. Brave Margaret by Robert D. San Souci
22. Leif the Lucky by Edgar Paren D’Aulaires
23. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
24. Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens
25. The King Arthur Trilogy: Sword and the Circle by Rosemary Sutcliff
26. Usborne Book of Explorers by Felicity Everett
27. Robinhood

Early American Books for Teaching History

1. Story of the World vol. III
2. Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
3. The Buck Stops Here by Alice Provenson
4. The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
5. How Ben Stole the Lightning
6. Who Was Sacagawea?
7. Pocahontas by Ingrid and Edgar Parin D’Auilaire
8. Fever 1793
9. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
10. Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
11. The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
12. The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz
13. The Lost Colony of Roanoke by Jean Fritz
14. Samuel Eaton’s Day by Kate Waters
15. Sarah Morton’s Day by Kate Waters
16. Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery
17. The Book of America by William J. Bennett
18. On the Mayflower by Kate Waters
19. Three Young Pilgrims by Cheryl Harness
20. Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West by Steven Kroll

Modern Times Books for Teaching History

1. Story of the World vol. IV
2. Fields of Fury
3. The Girls of Gettysburg
4. Born and Bred in the Great Depression
5. What was the Gold Rush?
6. Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails
7. Apples to Oregon
8. A Pioneer Sampler
9. The Little House Cookbook
10. Laura Ingalls Wilder series
11. Crow Call by Lois Lowry
12. Rags Hero of WWI
13. Shooting at the Stars by John Hendrix
14. War Horse
15. Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer
16. Number the Stars
17. History Pockets: Native Americans
18. The Royal Diaries: Anastasia
19. The Diary of Anne Frank
20. The Hiding Place
21. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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