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Catholic schools deserve the best textbooks. With Catholic Textbook Project, you can bring balance, perspective, and hope back into the hearts and minds of your students—these are the only history textbooks written with the freedom for truth that Catholic schools enjoy. Our textbooks meet and exceed standards while educating and inspiring students with the great drama of our history.

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Jan 2, 20243 min read
George Washington Marries Martha Dandridge Custis: January 6, 1759
This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. Not long after he helped the British capture Fort Duquesne, George Washington...


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Dec 25, 20233 min read
St. Thomas Becket Is Martyred at Canterbury Cathedral: December 29, 1170
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. Like the Norman kings before him, Henry II wanted to make England a united...


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Dec 18, 20234 min read
Pope Pius XI Issues the Encyclical “Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio”: December 23, 1922
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. “Gladly do We offer Our life for the Peace of the World!” These words were...


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Dec 11, 20233 min read
Ludwig van Beethoven Is Born: December 16, 1770
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. The Romantics we have spoken of to this point have all been literary...


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Dec 4, 20234 min read
Dorothy Day Is Baptized a Catholic: December 8, 1927
This text comes from our book, The American Venture. Most of the responses to the Great Depression had to do with government—what the...


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Nov 27, 20232 min read
King Tut’s Tomb Is Discovered: November 26, 1922
This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. Some 1,000 years after construction of the Sphinx, an Egyptian prince, Thutmose IV, was...


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Nov 20, 20234 min read
Pope Pius IX Escapes from the Quirinal: November 24, 1848
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. Pope Pius IX’s refusal to declare war on Austria had turned the Liberals of...


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Nov 13, 20233 min read
Congress Approves the Articles of Confederation: November 15, 1777
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Trying to get the states to agree on a constitution for the new national...


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Nov 6, 20231 min read
Theodosius Makes Christianity the Official Religion of the Roman Empire: November 8, 391
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. After the death of Valens, the Emperor Gratian realized he needed an able...


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Oct 30, 20234 min read
Martin Luther Nails His Ninety-Five Theses to the Door of the Castle Church: October 31, 1517
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. Typically, in those days, preachers were sent throughout Europe to offer the...


Catholic Textbook Project
Oct 23, 20233 min read
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Is Elected Pope: October 28, 1958
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the Patriarch of Venice, was 76 years old when his...


Catholic Textbook Project
Oct 16, 20233 min read
Thomas Edison Invents the Incandescent Light Bulb: October 21, 1879
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Western cattle and the railroads changed the agricultural economy of the East....

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Oct 9, 20232 min read
France and Austria Sign the Treaty of Vienna: October 14, 1809
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. Napoleon had let General Miollis handle the pope; he himself still had a war...


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Sep 28, 20233 min read
St. Katharine Drexel Is Canonized: October 1, 2000
This text comes from our book, The American Venture. “Why not become a missionary yourself, my child?” With these words, Pope Leo XIII...


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Sep 25, 20232 min read
The Imperial Diet Proclaims the “Religious Peace of Augsburg”: September 25, 1555
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. Charles V’s last years were spent trying to break the power of the...


Catholic Textbook Project
Sep 19, 20234 min read
The U.S. Constitution Is Signed: September 17, 1787
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. In the hot, humid weather of a Philadelphia summer, delegates wrangled, tempers...


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Sep 14, 20231 min read
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Whether you are a classroom teacher or a homeschool parent, we support you at every step and provide everything you need to succeed with...


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Sep 12, 20233 min read
Napoleon Triumphantly Enters a Deserted Moscow: September 16, 1812
Unlike other cities he had conquered, Moscow sent no delegation of citizens to greet Napoleon.


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Sep 4, 20232 min read
The Mayflower Sets Sail for America: September 6, 1620
This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. In a city in Holland called Leyden lived a colony of Englishmen. These English...


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Aug 28, 20234 min read
St. Junípero Serra Sails for America: August 30, 1749
Junípero Serra was born on the island of Mallorca off the Mediterranean coast of Spain on November 24, 1713.
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