This year, May 12 marks the fourteenth anniversary of the death of the founding general editor of the Catholic Textbook Project, Dr....

Phillip Campbell discusses strategies for teaching history successfully at every age group (elementary school, middle school, and high...

The turn of the year 1863 found the Army of the Potomac mired in Virginia clay at Falmouth, on the left bank of the Rappahannock,...

Lincoln’s first task was to secure for the union the neutral border states — Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, and Missouri. Delaware, with...

Conditions did not improve when George IV became king in 1820. As regent for his insane father, George III, since 1811, George IV had...

Danton had not been in Paris when the National Convention declared war on Great Britain. Instead, he had gone on another mission to the...

Join Erick Allen and Matt Sumers as they provide the K-12 teacher with a basic introduction to three key features of the Medieval period.

When the the terrible Thirty Years War had only just begun, a young man took up a private struggle, a fearful struggle, of his own. This...

It was night. All was quiet in the Michailov Palace in St. Petersburg. The members of the imperial family were in their beds, asleep—all...

In May 1836, John C. Calhoun said: “there [are] powerful reasons why Texas should be part of this Union.” The southern states, he said,...

In this recording of our webinar from February 24, 2022, join Andrew Robison, presenter on Holy Donors podcast, as he discusses the art...

The elections for the two houses of the French legislative assembly on May 20, 1797, seemed to promise a long-awaited peace for the...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. The conclave that met to elect Pope Clement XIV’s...

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As you likely know, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act provides $2.75 billion for the Emergency...

Catholic Textbook Project is happy to announce our newest release, long awaited and desired by the educators who rely on our books! Our Grad

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. The secularization of mission lands, along with the...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations I: The History of Christian Civilization. The Council of Trent had been called to...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. In the months following the overthrow of the...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations I: The History of Christian Civilization. The quarrel between Philip the Fair and...