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

In this episode, Susan Wise Bauer and Susanna Jarrett are joined by Karen Swallow Prior to discuss selecting university education, particularly for Christians homeschool graduates.

• Dr. Prior’s substack
• Dr. Prior’s website
• You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful by Karen Swallow Prior
• The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow Prior

• (00:00) - Intro with Dr. Karen Swallow Prior
• (00:35) - The purpose of this conversation
• (02:47) - Susan and Karen's backgrounds
• (05:48) - Personal experiences
• (12:34) - How to evaluate universities with your student
• (17:26) - Differences between secondary and university Christian roles
• (20:48) - Education being "safe"
• (25:06) - The four-year degree and the readiness of a student
• (27:29) - The college litmus test
• (29:54) - Break
• (30:55) - The fear of indoctrination
• (44:54) - How to ensure a vigorous education
• (49:16) - "The search for truth" as a basis for education
• (51:13) - Looping back around to Karen's tenure as a principal
• (53:13) - Going back to teaching at an institution?
• (54:42) - What Karen's up to now
• (56:18) - Outro

In this episode, Susan Wise Bauer and Susanna Jarrett welcome Rachael Denhollander to the podcast to discuss homeschooling and abuse.

• Illinois case mentioned in the episode
• Book mentioned: Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block
• Links on biblical counseling movement
  • When Restoration Hurts via Christianity Today
  • The Rise of Biblical Counseling via Pacific Standard

• (00:00) - Introduction with Rachael Denhollander
• (03:36) - Understanding abuse in homeschooling
• (05:10) - Defining the categories of abuse
• (08:38) - Isolation and ultimate authority
• (17:33) - How to teach when authority is overstepping
• (22:48) - How to teach when and how to say "no"
• (27:40) - Break
• (28:17) - Authority is not absolute
• (32:04) - What to look for
• (36:52) - What is reasonable government oversight?
• (54:23) - What to look out for
• (57:38) - What should we be asking ourselves?
• (01:01:31) - Outro