by Nick Marmalejo | A new course framework for teaching AP US History is being rolled out in schools across the country.
Read More »Dealing with the “I hate History!” Syndrome
by Dr Anne Carrol | Home schooling parents are often faced with the “I hate history” syndrome. But they can transform antipathy into enthusiasm. Everything we teach our children should have as its ultimate purpose the glory of God and the good of souls, and history is no exception. How specifically can we teach history so that it fulfills these purposes?
Read More »A Guide to Success in Your Studies: Improving Memory and Retention
Since I am a professional historian, I am dismayed when I hear anyone say, “I hate history.” Their lament almost always means that the person is as yet unprepared to face history's challenges, the first and foremost of which is the ability to retain a great deal of data. To succeed in that undertaking, we must understand that retentiveness is a by-product of intellectual exercise.
Read More »Fruitfulness: The Abundant Life among the Ancient Greeks
The ancient Greeks identified the sign of fruitfulness as proof of the art of living well, as the true mark of civilization. On the shield of Achilles in the Iliad ...
Read More »Philadelphia, The Cradle of Religious Liberty
Ginny Seuffert helps counsel parents here at Seton, and often shares with them different places to visit for hands on experience to learning history!
Read More »Seton Homeschool Helper: Tools for the New Evangelization
In responding to Blessed John Paul II’s call to the New Evangelization, let’s take as our model St. Maximillian Kolbe (1894-1941). With the Immaculata friars, he used the most modern ...
Read More »Miss U, American Heroine
Margaret Elizabeth Doolin was born in August of 1900. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, she became a nurse and was working in the Philippine Islands when World War II ...
Read More »Re-creation Inspiration!
Last weekend, my daughter graduated from college. (Summa cum laude — those Seton grads do okay for themselves!) The commencement ceremony was being held in Springfield, Illinois, home to Abraham ...
Read More »Learning from History
My two previous columns (available in the online newsletter archive) gave a brief history of the rise, and sadly the partial decline, of Catholic education in the United States. To ...
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