History is one of our favorite subjects around here, and we’ve always used a literature-based rather than textbook approach. We’ve also really enjoyed the video-based approach that Compass Classroom uses for their programs, like Visual Latin and Economics For Everybody.
For the last few weeks I’ve been previewing Compass’s latest offering, Dave Raymond’s American History Part 1, which blends both of these approaches. It teaches through a combination of video lectures and readings from original source documents.