About All Through the Ages

All Through the Ages is unique because of its comprehensiveness and organization. It is a compilation of listings of over 7000 quality historical narratives, historical fiction, “living books”, and worthy literature, briefly annotated, from these well-known and respected sources:

Answers in Genesis
Beautiful Feet Books
Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield (link to Project Gutenberg is valid)
Bethlehem Books
Bluestocking Press
Books Children Love by Elizabeth Wilson
Conservative Book Club
Dover Publications
History of Nations by Henry Cabot Lodge
Honey for a Child’s Heart by Gladys Hunt
Elijah Company Catalog (no longer in business)
Great Books of the Christian Tradition by Terry Glaspey
Great Books of Western Civilization
Greenleaf Press Catalog
Lamplighter Publishing
Landmark Books Series published by Random House
Let the Authors Speak by Carolyn Hatcher
Newbery & Newbery Honor Award Books
Nobel Laureates in Literature
Pulitzer Prize Award Books
Robinson Self-Teaching Curriculum
Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd. Catalog
Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Veritas Press

The book is organized into two sections: a Chronological History section, and a Geographical History section. The Chronological History section covers both world and American history from Creation through the year 2000, divided into 25 distinct historical eras:

Overview of Western Civilization; Creation & the pre-Diluvian World
Ancient Near East; Ancient Egypt; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome
Overview of Church History; Dark Ages; Middle Ages
Renaissance; Reformation; Exploration; New World Colonization
Colonial Wars; Overview of American History; American Revolution
Framing the New Government; Westward Expansion; Civil War
Post Civil War 1800s: Reconstruction, Wild West, & Victorian Era
Immigration & Industrialization from the Victorian Era through the 1920s
20th Century Overview; Pre-World War II 1900s
World War I; World War II; the Modern Era

drop cap W | nothingnewpress.com World History is not abandoned with the rise of the American nation. A separate subsection titled World Events is included at the end of every American History section, beginning with New World Colonization through the Modern Era.The Geographical History portion of the guide covers World History by region rather than by time period. All seven of the continents are represented, as well as island groups such as Polynesia and Indonesia, in 27 sections. Many of the books from the Chronological History section are included, and others in addition deal with the culture and geography of that particular region.

However, it is its organization that makes All Through the Ages truly invaluable. Every division throughout the book, whether by time period such as Ancient Greece, or a World Events subsection, or a Geographical region such as Africa, is further subdivided into 4 reading levels:

1-3 for beginning readers in 1st through 3rd grades;
4-6 for fluent readers in 4th through 6th grades;
7-9 for maturing readers in 7th through 9th grades;
10-12 for college-bound readers in 10th through 12th grades.

Each reading level is further subdivided, for every booklist for every era, geographical region, or World Events sublisting:

Overview of the era; narratives which can be used as a base for further studies;
Specific events; non-fiction about a single event or idea during an era;
Biography; including autobiographies and novelized biographies;
Historical fiction; with historical events or persons figuring in the story noted;
Literature; mythology, legend, epic poetry, by authors of the time;
Culture; way of life, society, art, cooking, diaries, letters, journals.

No matter where a family is in their World and American History studies, no matter what varying grade levels are represented in that family, All Through the Ages lists the good “living books” and great literature to choose from, from picture books and beginning readers all the way through the Great Books of Western Civilization.