FOR HOMESCHOOLING FAMILIES
A term of history, one map at a time
Each atlas divides naturally into a term: one chapter a week, read aloud or alone, each with its causes, turning point, consequences and a dinner-table question with a full answer. The plans below are generated straight from the chapters — click any week to read it now.
The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Republic and Its Rival |
| WEEK 2 | The Punic Wars: Hannibal |
| WEEK 3 | The Greek East Falls |
| WEEK 4 | The Republic Breaks |
| WEEK 5 | Caesar |
| WEEK 6 | Augustus |
| WEEK 7 | The Pax Romana |
| WEEK 8 | The Third-Century Crisis |
| WEEK 9 | Diocletian and Constantine |
| WEEK 10 | The Storm from the North |
| WEEK 11 | The Fall of the West |
| WEEK 12 | Why Rome Fell — and What Survived |
Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521 — a 12-week term
The Crusades, 1095–1291 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | Three Civilizations, One Sea |
| WEEK 2 | The First Crusade |
| WEEK 3 | A Society on the Edge |
| WEEK 4 | Europe’s First Standing Institutions |
| WEEK 5 | Zengi, Nur al-Din, and the Second Crusade |
| WEEK 6 | Saladin |
| WEEK 7 | The Third Crusade |
| WEEK 8 | The Fourth Crusade — The Wrong Ending |
| WEEK 9 | The Idea Turned Loose |
| WEEK 10 | The Crusades of Kings |
| WEEK 11 | Baibars and the End |
| WEEK 12 | What the Crusades Made |
The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The World of the Steppe |
| WEEK 2 | Temüjin Becomes Genghis Khan |
| WEEK 3 | The Fall of North China |
| WEEK 4 | The Khwarazm Catastrophe |
| WEEK 5 | The Great Raid |
| WEEK 6 | The Storm on the West |
| WEEK 7 | The Machinery of Empire |
| WEEK 8 | The Hammer on Islam |
| WEEK 9 | The Family War |
| WEEK 10 | Khubilai and the Song |
| WEEK 11 | The Limits of the World |
| WEEK 12 | The Long Shadow |
The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | Why Britain? |
| WEEK 2 | Cotton and the Factory |
| WEEK 3 | Steam, Coal and Iron |
| WEEK 4 | The Railway Age |
| WEEK 5 | Industrial Society |
| WEEK 6 | Resistance |
| WEEK 7 | The Continent Follows |
| WEEK 8 | The Second Industrial Revolution |
| WEEK 9 | America Industrialises |
| WEEK 10 | Japan: Industrialisation from Above |
| WEEK 11 | A Global Transformation |
| WEEK 12 | Who Won and Who Lost |
The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The World of 1775 |
| WEEK 2 | The American Revolution |
| WEEK 3 | The French Revolution |
| WEEK 4 | The Republic in the Balance |
| WEEK 5 | The Haitian Revolution |
| WEEK 6 | Napoleon Ascendant |
| WEEK 7 | The Empire and Its Cracks |
| WEEK 8 | 1812: The Russian Campaign |
| WEEK 9 | The Fall |
| WEEK 10 | Latin America Breaks Free |
| WEEK 11 | The Age of Restoration |
| WEEK 12 | 1848: The Springtime of Peoples |
Two Roads to Independence: Haiti 1789–1838 and Kenya 1895–1978 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | Saint-Domingue: The Richest Colony |
| WEEK 2 | The Revolution Crosses the Atlantic |
| WEEK 3 | Toussaint Louverture |
| WEEK 4 | Napoleon’s Expedition |
| WEEK 5 | Dessalines and the Making of Haiti |
| WEEK 6 | The Price of Recognition |
| WEEK 7 | The White Highlands |
| WEEK 8 | War, Land and the Oath |
| WEEK 9 | The Emergency |
| WEEK 10 | The Road to Uhuru |
| WEEK 11 | Challenges after Independence |
| WEEK 12 | Two Independences Compared |
The American Civil War, 1840–1877 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War |
| WEEK 2 | A House Dividing |
| WEEK 3 | Secession Winter |
| WEEK 4 | The Illusions of 1861 |
| WEEK 5 | The Anaconda and the Rivers |
| WEEK 6 | The Virginia Deadlock |
| WEEK 7 | Antietam and Emancipation |
| WEEK 8 | The Twin Turning |
| WEEK 9 | Hard War |
| WEEK 10 | The Ballot and the March |
| WEEK 11 | Appomattox |
| WEEK 12 | The endgame, read together: Reconstruction — The Unfinished Revolution · Memory and Meaning |
Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Closed Country |
| WEEK 2 | The Black Ships |
| WEEK 3 | The Fall of the Shogunate |
| WEEK 4 | Dismantling the Old Order |
| WEEK 5 | Building the Meiji State |
| WEEK 6 | A Great Power |
| WEEK 7 | The Stagnant Superpower |
| WEEK 8 | Gorbachev’s Gamble |
| WEEK 9 | The Union Unravels |
| WEEK 10 | Shock Therapy |
| WEEK 11 | A State at War with Itself |
| WEEK 12 | Two Transitions Compared |
The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Great Reforms |
| WEEK 2 | Reaction and the Railway |
| WEEK 3 | The Brittle Giant |
| WEEK 4 | The War Breaks the State |
| WEEK 5 | Dual Power |
| WEEK 6 | October |
| WEEK 7 | Brest-Litovsk |
| WEEK 8 | The Ring of Fire |
| WEEK 9 | Why the Reds Won |
| WEEK 10 | Intervention |
| WEEK 11 | The Borderlands’ Own Revolutions |
| WEEK 12 | The endgame, read together: 1920 — Warsaw and the Crimea · Victors Against the People · What Had Been Made |
Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Rebellion and the Crown |
| WEEK 2 | Congress and the Raj |
| WEEK 3 | The Raj at High Noon |
| WEEK 4 | Bengal Cut in Two |
| WEEK 5 | The Great War’s Price |
| WEEK 6 | Amritsar — The End of Consent |
| WEEK 7 | Non-Cooperation — The Method Argued |
| WEEK 8 | Salt |
| WEEK 9 | The Elected Map |
| WEEK 10 | The War Claims India |
| WEEK 11 | Quit India — and the Famine |
| WEEK 12 | The endgame, read together: The Year of the Knife · Freedom at Midnight · The Price and the Legacy · Building the Republic |
The Great War, 1871–1923 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | Bismarck’s Europe and the Two Blocs |
| WEEK 2 | The Balkan Crises |
| WEEK 3 | The Powder Keg |
| WEEK 4 | The Guns of August |
| WEEK 5 | The Trench |
| WEEK 6 | The Widening War |
| WEEK 7 | The Furnaces |
| WEEK 8 | The Slowest Weapon |
| WEEK 9 | The World’s War |
| WEEK 10 | Breaking Points |
| WEEK 11 | Brest-Litovsk: The Gamble in the East Pays |
| WEEK 12 | The endgame, read together: The Spring Offensives and the Hundred Days · Armistice · The Peace That Failed · The New Map of Europe |
China in Revolution, 1911–1949 — a 12-week term
The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Succession |
| WEEK 2 | The Great Turn: Collectivisation |
| WEEK 3 | The Famines |
| WEEK 4 | The Five-Year Plans |
| WEEK 5 | The Gulag |
| WEEK 6 | The Great Terror |
| WEEK 7 | Nations and Deportations |
| WEEK 8 | Propaganda and the Cult |
| WEEK 9 | Daily Life, Women and Family |
| WEEK 10 | Stalin at War |
| WEEK 11 | High Stalinism |
| WEEK 12 | Death and Judgement |
The Road to War, 1931–1941 — a 12-week term
The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Gathering Storm |
| WEEK 2 | The Pact and the Partition of Poland |
| WEEK 3 | Blitzkrieg in the West |
| WEEK 4 | The Battle of Britain |
| WEEK 5 | Mussolini’s Parallel War |
| WEEK 6 | Barbarossa: The War of Annihilation |
| WEEK 7 | Rising Sun: From China to Pearl Harbor |
| WEEK 8 | Midway: Five Minutes That Turned an Ocean |
| WEEK 9 | The Hinge: Stalingrad and El Alamein |
| WEEK 10 | Kursk, and the Fall of Fascist Italy |
| WEEK 11 | The Island Road |
| WEEK 12 | The endgame, read together: Overlord and Bagration: The Vice Closes · Closing the Ring · The Downfall of Imperial Japan · The World the War Made |
The Cold War, 1945–1991 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The World the War Left |
| WEEK 2 | Containment |
| WEEK 3 | Two Shocks of 1949 |
| WEEK 4 | Korea: The Cold War Turns Hot |
| WEEK 5 | Coexistence and Its Crises |
| WEEK 6 | Cuba: To the Brink |
| WEEK 7 | Vietnam |
| WEEK 8 | The Third World Front |
| WEEK 9 | Détente: The Triangle |
| WEEK 10 | The Second Cold War |
| WEEK 11 | Gorbachev and the Unraveling |
| WEEK 12 | The End — and the Arguments |
The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | How Thin the Empire Really Was |
| WEEK 2 | The First Doors |
| WEEK 3 | Ghana — The Model |
| WEEK 4 | Algeria — The Exception |
| WEEK 5 | The Year of Africa |
| WEEK 6 | The Congo Crisis |
| WEEK 7 | Building States from Colonies |
| WEEK 8 | The Portuguese Empire Falls Last |
| WEEK 9 | The Settler Redoubt |
| WEEK 10 | Apartheid’s Long Fall |
| WEEK 11 | The Four Years That Decided It |
| WEEK 12 | What Independence Achieved, and Could Not |
Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Problem That Has No Name |
| WEEK 2 | Organising for Equality |
| WEEK 3 | The Personal Is Political |
| WEEK 4 | Who Was Left Out? |
| WEEK 5 | The ERA and the Backlash |
| WEEK 6 | A Global Movement |
| WEEK 7 | Bourguiba’s Tunisia |
| WEEK 8 | Ben Ali: Stability and Silence |
| WEEK 9 | Twenty-Eight Days |
| WEEK 10 | Building a Democracy |
| WEEK 11 | Terrorism and Fragility |
| WEEK 12 | Two Movements Compared |
Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | Europe Uprooted |
| WEEK 2 | The Expulsions of Germans |
| WEEK 3 | Borders Move, People Follow |
| WEEK 4 | The DP Camps |
| WEEK 5 | From Relief to Rights |
| WEEK 6 | Integration and the Cold War |
| WEEK 7 | Communist Victory |
| WEEK 8 | Re-education and Flight |
| WEEK 9 | The Boat People |
| WEEK 10 | Geneva and the US Response |
| WEEK 11 | Camps, Screening and the CPA |
| WEEK 12 | Two Crises Compared |
The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | Consolidating Victory |
| WEEK 2 | Korea and the Campaigns |
| WEEK 3 | Tibet and the Frontiers |
| WEEK 4 | The Soviet Model |
| WEEK 5 | A Hundred Flowers |
| WEEK 6 | The Great Leap Forward |
| WEEK 7 | The Great Famine |
| WEEK 8 | Retreat and Recovery |
| WEEK 9 | The Cultural Revolution |
| WEEK 10 | Down to the Countryside |
| WEEK 11 | From Soviet Ally to Nixon |
| WEEK 12 | Mao’s Death and Legacy |
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