Reply #22: I am currently covering U.S. History I in several ways

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I have Zinn's book along with Schweikart's A Patriot's History (polar opposites). I am reading the Oxford History of the U.S. (Glorious Cause, Empire of Liberty, What God Hath Wrought, and Battle Cry of Freedom) along with Taylor's American Colonies to cover the Oxford hole. I also have a general textbook used in college - Goldfield American Journey 5th edition.

My daughter will have her own material presented online from Apex Learning, and, as she is taking the High School course, I will be prepping her for the college CLEP on the same material. This will be her first Apex Learning class so I am not sure how it will go. I am only interested in my daughter getting the High School credit through Apex, but I feel that it could do no worse job than my older daughter's current history teacher.

One word of warning about enjoying authors of a particular political bent too much. I was reading The Lies that My Teacher Told Me, and Loewen's stated with absolute certainty that Warren Harding was in the KKK, and that he was inducted while in the White House. This is far from being proved, and Loewen failed to go into the nuance surrounding the accusation. I am reading Zinn's and Schweikart's claims with the same skepticism.