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Early Days of AOL Homeschooling Forums
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In the early days of AOL they sent out a little monthly magazine much like a TV Guide, telling when the chats would be and other interesting features they had.

Ravage of Home Education Through Exclusion By Religion
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A White Paper by Raymond S. Moore, Homeschool Founder. How HSLDA divided the homeschool community.

The Best of Colfax Corner
As many of you veteran readers may recall, David and Micki wrote a regular column, The Colfax Corner, in The Link for a couple of years. However, David and Micki's duties as noted above, preclude them from writing at this time. Especially for the benefit of our newer readers and those new to homeschooling in general, we wanted to reproduce some of the best from those columns.

A Brief History of Homeschooling
The concept of universal compulsory schooling is a very recent idea, one that is not even two hundred years old, yet we act as if it is an ancient, sure-fire way to make sure our children "learn something." By Patrick Farenga.

A Brief History of American Homeschooling
Excerpted from Homeschoolers' Success Stories: 15 Adults and 12 Young People Share the Impact That Homeschooling Has Made on Their Lives by Linda Dobson (Prima Publishing, (c) 2000.)

Homeschooling Research Notes
Homeschool: An American History author, Milton Gaither, writes about his process, and his errors. A good resource and contact for those researching the history of homeschooling.

Homeschoolers Are at Home at Harvard
Reed N. Colfax '92 and J. Drew Colfax '90

Published On Thursday, March 16, 1989, in The Crimson, Harvard's publication. Reed and his brothers, J. Drew Colfax '90 and Grant N. Colfax '87, are among the approximately 500,000 students who are taught at home by their parents instead of attending regular schools.

A Homeschooler's History
By Cheryl Seelhoff. A very human story.
Continuing articles, also in PDF format:
Part II: Influences,
Part III: 1990-1992,
Part IV: H.R. 6,
Part V: The Gentle Spirit Controversy, and
Part VI: 1995-1997.

HSLDA's "History" Erodes the Foundations of Our Freedom
HSLDA has relied on statutes, including legislation and court cases, which do not give us our freedom and which instead erode its foundations. By Larry and Susan Kaseman, HEM S/O 01.

John Holt and GWS
One name written large in the history of homeschooling is that of the widely acclaimed author, relentless education reformer, and respected social critic, John Caldwell Holt. His great legacy is the homeschooling movement itself. By Helen Hegener, HEM M/J 06.

John Holt and the Origins of Contemporary Homeschooling
By focusing on the work of author and teacher John Holt though, one can trace not only a personal journey from school reformer to unschooler, but also an intellectual and educational legacy that led to homeschooling that is little reported by conservative and liberal media alike.

Books To Help You Find Out About the History of Homeschooling
 
Homeschool: An American History
Homeschool
An American History
by Milton Gaither
This is a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. The last five chapters focus especially on the modern homeschooling movement and offer the most comprehensive and authoritative account of it ever written. Readers will learn how and why homeschooling emerged when it did, where it has been, and where it may be going.
 
The Homeschooling Revolution
by Isabel Lyman
This book is the best overview of the "Homeschooling Revolution" that I've seen. The author is a Ph.D social scientist and a homeschooling Mom. Her writing style is informal and friendly. This book is not a "how to" book on homeschooling, it is a serious yet engaging look at the homeschooling movement. It has plenty of references to useful homeschooling resources.
 
Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement
Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement
by Mitchell L. Stevens
Moving from why parents opt for home-schooling to the long-term effects on their children, he draws on interviews with a mix of parents from fundamentalist Christians to pagans and educational radicals and persuasively contextualizes the movement within the "organizational strategies of the progressive left and the religious right" in their attempt to preserve their core set of values: "the sanctity of childhood and the primacy of family in the face of an increasingly competitive and bureaucratized society." 15 pages of exerpts available.

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