What kind of history outline does Ambleside Online use?
Charlotte Mason taught the history of her own country alongside world history, doing both side by side chronologically. It hasn’t been practical for Ambleside Online to duplicate that totally because Charlotte Mason’s country (England) had a long, rich history, unlike the US, whose history is only known only vaguely before the 1400’s. Rather, what Ambleside has offered is closer to a history of western civilization, with an emphasis on America’s roots in Western/British history. Every class in Charlotte Mason’s schools followed the same period of history, covering that historical era for each level, every term. This is a mammoth task that the organizers of this curriculum were not prepared to undertake with each new term – it simply isn’t practical for the advisory to schedule books for each historical period for every level. Therefore, an equally satisfactory method was developed whereby each Ambleside student will study history in a chronological sequence. Ambleside Online schedules
