RECOMMENDED PARENT/TEACHER'S LIBRARY
The Bible is understood as the basic book for any library and necessary for any education, so has not been included in the recommendations.
The TOP DOZEN (must haves) are underlined
Any Book by Rousas John Rushdoony:
The Biblical Philosophy of History, P & R Pub
The Foundations of Social Order, Thoburn Press
The Institutes of Biblical Law, P & R Pub
The Messianic Character of American Education,
Ross House Books
The Nature of the American System, Thoburn Press
The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum, Ross House Books
This Independent Republic, Thoburn Press
Any Book by Richard M. Weaver:
Ideas Have Consequences, The Univ. of Chicago Press
Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver, Liberty Press
The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought, Regnery Gateway
WORLDVIEW
Advancing the Kingdom, Donald W. Schanzenbach,
Building A Christian Worldview, Vol.1 & 2, W.Andrew Hoffecker editor, P & R Pub
How Should We Then Live?, Francis A. Schaeffer, Crossway Books
Think Biblically!, John MacArthur, Ed., Crossway Books
EDUCATION
Education: Assumptions Versus History, Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution Press
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Douglas Wilson, Crossway Books
The Seven Laws of Teaching, John Milton Gregory, Baker Book House Co.
Teaching to Change Lives, Howard G. Hendricks, Multinomah Press
The Underground History of American Education, John Gatto, Oxford Village Press
Weapons of Mass Instruction, John Gatto, New Society Publishers
READING
How to Read a Book, Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren, Simon & Schuster
How to Read Slowly, James W. Sire, Harold Shaw Pub.
ECONOMICS
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell, Basic Books
Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt, Crown Pub.
Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulators, David Chilton, Institute for Christian Economics
GOVERNMENT
From Union to Empire, Clyde N. Wilson, Foundation for American Education
God and Government (3 volume series), Gary DeMar, The American Vision
Reclaiming Liberty, James Ronald Kennedy, Pelican Pub
MODERN CULTURE
The Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg, Simon & Schuster
Why Not Freedom, James R. & Walter D. Kennedy, Pelican Press
HISTORY
American, The First 350 Years, J. Steven Wilkins (CD set with syllabus). Covenant Publicans, Monroe, LA
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, Thomas E. Woods, Regnery Publishing
The Patriot’s Handbook, George Grant, Cumberland House Publishing
John Witherspoon: Parson, Politician, Patriot, Martha L.L. Stohlman, Westminster/John Knox Press
The slave chronicals:
My Folks Don’t Want Me To Talk About Slavery, Before Freedom: When I Just Can Remember, We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard, Belinda Hurmence editor, John F. Blair Publisher of all three
Southern Classics Series:
Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier, Allen Tate,
Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company, Andrew Nelson Lyttle,
The Tennessee, Vols. 1 & 2, Donald Davidson, J.S.Sanders & Company
Leaders in Action Series:
Call of Duty, J. Steven Wilkins (bio-Robert E. Lee)
Give Me Liberty, David Vaughan (bio-Patrick Henry)
Then Darkness Fled, Stephen Mansfield (bio-Booker T. Washington)
Forgotten Founding Father, Stephen Mansfield (bio-George Whitefield)
Reprints from Sprinkle:
Christ in the Camp, J. William Jones
Discussions, Vol. IV - Secular, R.L Dabney
The Great Revival in the Southern Armies, W.W. Bennett
Life & Campaigns of Lieut. Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson, R.L. Dabney
Life & Letters of Gen. Robert Edward Lee, Dr. J.W. Jones
The Real Lincoln, Charles L.C. Minor
The War Between The States, Alexander H. Stephens
THE SOUTH—CULTURE
I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, Twelve Southerners, LSU Press
The South Was Right, James R. & Walter D. Kennedy, Pelican Press
Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South, Grady McWhiney, The University of Alabama Press
THE SOUTH’S WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
Co. Aytch, Sam R. Watkins, Macmillan Publishing
A History of the Old South, Clement Eaton, Macmillan
The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement, Otto Scott, Uncommon Books
When In The Course of Human Events, Charles Adams, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Real Lincoln, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Three Rivers Press
War Crimes Against Southern Civilians, Walter Brian Cisco, Pelican Publishers