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Catholic Textbook Project Catholic Schools Textbook Project is a series of History/Social Studies textbooks that bring history ALIVE in the hearts & minds of Catholic schoolchildren

Creating textbooks that teach about the world – while giving the Catholic Church the position it deserves in history, without exaggerating either favorable or unfavorable realities. Written in an engaging, journalistic style, they bring history to life with accuracy, vitality and thought-provoking energy.

251 years ago this week, the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought.
06/15/2026

251 years ago this week, the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought.

The members of the Massachusetts assembly rejoiced when they heard the news of Arnold and Allen’s victories on Lake Champlain. The same could not be said of the men who had gathered to form the Second Continental Congress. These men, who were representatives from each of the thirteen colonies, had...

250 years ago this week, the Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted by the House of Burgesses.
06/08/2026

250 years ago this week, the Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted by the House of Burgesses.

By war, the former English colonies of North America had won their independence. But what they had obtained by war, they could lose in peace—if they found no effective means of governing themselves. Revolutions often follow a predictable path in history. First, revolutionaries establish a new gove...

82 years ago this week, General Patton and 176,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel into Normandy.
06/01/2026

82 years ago this week, General Patton and 176,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel into Normandy.

While the British and the Americans fought the Germans in Italy, their air forces had been carrying out bombing raids on Germany itself. But Allied air strikes, though very destructive to both property and human life, did not bring about the results Churchill and Roosevelt had desired. Air raids did...

172 years ago this week, the Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed.
05/26/2026

172 years ago this week, the Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed.

It was a year of troubles, was 1854. It was a year of economic depression. It was a year of unrest. Besides the upheaval over slavery, in the cities a smoldering resentment of the poor against the rich was growing more evident. And now the Kansas-Nebraska Act had shredded a 30-year compromise that h...

113 years ago this week, the Treaty of London is signed.
05/18/2026

113 years ago this week, the Treaty of London is signed.

Italia irredenta—“unredeemed Italy”—was the name Italian nationalists gave to those lands where Italians lived but that as yet were not part of Italy. The most important of these territories were Trentino in the Alps, the Italian Tyrol, and Trieste, a port city northeast of Italy—all of wh...

419 years ago this week, Jamestown settlement is founded.
05/11/2026

419 years ago this week, Jamestown settlement is founded.

For over 50 years following Cabot’s last voyage, England ignored the New World.

251 years ago this week, Allen and Arnold lead their men to the shores of Lake Champlain to capture Fort Ticonderoga.
05/04/2026

251 years ago this week, Allen and Arnold lead their men to the shores of Lake Champlain to capture Fort Ticonderoga.

Benedict Arnold, a merchant of New Haven, Connecticut, wanted to do great things for the colonial cause and his own reputation. But by the end of the Revolution, he did grave harm to the colonials, and his return to England as a Tory has earned him forever the name of traitor and turncoat. It all be...

213 years ago this week, American forces capture York, burning the provincial assembly buildings.
04/27/2026

213 years ago this week, American forces capture York, burning the provincial assembly buildings.

Despite the fervor of the “War Hawks” (as those who had pushed for war with Great Britain were called), the American army and navy were not prepared for war. Great Britain’s navy had more than 100 ships; the United States, only five frigates. Great Britain’s army was also much larger than Am...

193 years ago this week, Ozanam and seven of his friends establish the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
04/20/2026

193 years ago this week, Ozanam and seven of his friends establish the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Like all Europeans, Catholics in the 1840s were divided on how to meet the challenges of their time. The Church in Western Europe was in many ways still in a state of shock because of the French Revolution and its aftermath. It was hard for Catholics, bishops and popes included, to understand fully....

65 years ago this week, a force of anti-Castro Cubans land at the Bay of Pigs on the southwestern coast.
04/13/2026

65 years ago this week, a force of anti-Castro Cubans land at the Bay of Pigs on the southwestern coast.

The 1950s was a time when European colonies in Africa and Asia were loosening themselves from their European masters to form their own independent states. While in some places this was done peacefully, insurgent violence beset other regions—such as French Indochina in East Asia, where, in 1954, Co...

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