
This page contains all the unit studies from this era. You can follow the Civil War to Modern History Unit Studies from Abraham Lincoln though Barack Obama for a complete years worth of history though unit studies.
Each unit study contains things like booklists, notebooking pages, book suggestions, readings, art, drawing, lapbooks, and more.
The schedule for using the Civil War to Modern History Unit Studies as a complete History study for the year is at the bottom of this page. This is the schedule we use in our own homeschool.
I created this page for our own homeschool history studies. I hope you get just as much use out of it as we will. There are so many great resources out there for homeschooling that are 100% free. So, let’s use them!
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Civil War to Modern History Unit Studies
From the late 1800s through present day.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Civil War
- Harriet Tubman
- George Washington Carver
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Thomas Edison
- Helen Keller
- Industrial Revolution
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Statue of Liberty
- Wright Brothers
- Amelia Earhart
- Bessie Coleman
- Titanic
- WW1
- Treaty of Versailles
- 1920’s
- Great Depression
- Franklin Roosevelt
- WW2 Begins
- Anne Frank (covered in WW2 units)
- Holocaust (covered in WW2 units)
- Hitler (covered in WW2 units)
- Concentration Camps (covered in WW2 units)
- Pearl Harbor (covered in WW2 units)
- D-day (covered in WW2 units)
- Atom Bomb (covered in WW2 units)
- Civil Rights Movement
- Segregation (covered in Civil Rights Unit)
- Rosa Parks (covered in Civil Rights Unit)
- Freedom Riders (covered in Civil Rights Unit)
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (covered in Civil Rights Unit)
- March on Washington (covered in Civil Rights Unit)
- Communism & The Cold War
- Eisenhower
- J.F.K
- Vietnam War
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- George H.W. Bush
- Bill Clinton
- George W. Bush & War on Terrorism
- Barack Obama
- Donald Trump
Civil War to Modern History Unit Studies: Year-Long Schedule
*Take however many days you feel necessary to cover each subject. Some may only take a day or two. This is the schedule we intend to follow in our own homeschool.
Term 1
Week 1: Abraham Lincoln & The Civil War
Week 2: Harriet Tubman
Week 3: George Washington Carver
Week 4: The Transcontinental Railroad
Week 5: Alexander Graham Bell & Thomas Edison
Week 6: Helen Keller
Week 7: The Industrial Revolution
Week 8: Theodore Roosevelt
Week 9: The Statue of Liberty & The Wright Brothers
Week 10: Amelia Earhart & Bessie Coleman
Week 11: Titanic
Week 12: WW1
Term 2
Week 1: Treaty of Versailles
Week 2: The 1920s
Week 3: The Great Depression
Week 4: Franklin Roosevelt
Week 5: WW2
Week 6: Anne Frank (covered in WW2 units) & Holocaust (covered in WW2 units)
Week 7: Hitler & Concentration Camps (covered in WW2 units)
Week 8: D-day
Week 9: Atom Bomb
Week 10: Civil Rights Movement
Week 11: Segregation & Rosa Parks (In Civil Rights Movement Unit Study)
Week 12: Dr. MLK Jr. & March on Washington (In Civil Rights Movement Unit Study)
Term 3
Week 1: Communism & Cold War
Week 2: Eisenhower
Week 3: J.F.K
Week 4: Vietnam
Week 5: Lyndon B. Johnson
Week 6: Nixon
Week 7: Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter
Week 8: Ronald Reagan
Week 9: George H.W. Bush
Week 10: Bill Clinton
Week 11: George W. Bush & War on Terrorism
Week 12: Barack Obama & Donald Trump
Cycle Through History
So far we are working on compiling the Civil War to Modern History Unit Studies. When those are finished, we will start at Cycle 1 and move in that order. If you have any resources you’d like to see added to the unit studies in the future. Feel free to contact me via our contact page.
Cycle 1: Creation/Ancients (Coming Soon)
Cycle 2: Middle Ages (Coming Soon)
Cycle 3: Explorers/ Early Modern (Coming Soon)
Cycle 4: Civil War to Modern
