In this episode, Susan Wise Bauer and Susanna Jarrett welcome Dr. Warren Throckmorton onto the podcast to review accuracy of various homeschool curricula.

Links to Warren Throckmorton’s work elsewhere:

• Substack: The Throckmorton Initiative
• Book: Getting Jefferson Right: Fact-Checking Claims About Our Third President
• Upcoming book: The Christian Past That Wasn't: Debunking the Christian Nationalist Myths that Hijack History
• Podcast: The Christian Past That Wasn't: Formerly Telling Jefferson's Lies
• X: @wthrockmorton
• Facebook: warrenthrockmorton
• Bluesky: @wthrockmorton.bsky.social

Excerpt links:

• Our American Heritage by Judy Hull Moore, Abeka. Quotations come from pages 1, 3, and 53
• The Mystery of History blog by curriculum author Judy Hull Moore “Benjamin Franklin – A Jack of All Trades”
• US Constitution and Government Course Book, The Good and the Beautiful. See sample from the publisher’s website. Quotations come from page 2, History Case File page 1, and page 2.
• A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Rebecca Stefoff. Quotations come from 52, 54, 58, and 88.
  • Why Learn History When it is Already On Your Phone by Sam Wineburg
• The Story of the World Volume 3: Early Modern Times Revised Edition by Susan Wise Bauer, Well-Trained Mind Press. Quotations come from 258-259, 260-262.
• History Quest: United States, Pandia Press. Quoted passages come from pages 52, 76, and 248.
• Snapshots of Early Modern History, Volume 2 by Vivian Meyers, Curiosity Chronicles. Quoted passages come from page 40. View samples on the publisher’s website.

• (00:00) - Intro with Warren Throckmorton
• (06:59) - What we're doing today
• (07:56) - Our American Heritage
• (16:10) - Mystery of History Vol. 4
• (23:37) - The Good and the Beautiful US constitution course
• (34:27) - Break
• (35:27) - A Young People's History of the United States
• (41:18) - The Story of the World
• (47:04) - History Quest: United States
• (53:21) - Curiosity Chronicles: Early Modern Times
• (56:28) - How to evaluate the honesty of histories?
• (01:02:11) - Outro