8th Grade · Full-year course · 4 units
History
Week 1 is free. Tap Week 1. The reading and the problems are on that lesson. Weeks 2–36 open with a Life Academy plan ($35/month per student or $69/month per family (up to 4 students)).
Unit 1: Foundations
Weeks 1–9Week 1How historians work: chronology, geography, and a cited sourceWeek 2Indigenous nations and European claims — the land was not emptyWeek 3Colonial America: regions, labor systems, and Atlantic slaveryWeek 4Road to Revolution: imperial reform, taxes, and ideas of rightsWeek 5War for Independence (1775–1783): military and diplomatic factsWeek 6Declaration of Independence (1776): philosophy and a bill of chargesWeek 7State constitutions and the Articles of Confederation — what failedWeek 8Philadelphia 1787: a new frame — separation of powers, federalism, republicWeek 9Ratification: Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments in their words
Unit 2: Building fluency
Weeks 10–18Week 10Bill of Rights (1791): what the first ten amendments actually sayWeek 11Federal vs state powers: Article I §8 and the Tenth AmendmentWeek 12Washington through Adams: precedents, parties, and 1800Week 13Jefferson, Louisiana (1803), and the contradiction of slavery in a republicWeek 14Market revolution, democracy of white men, and those excludedWeek 15Indian Removal as written U.S. policy — documents, not a sports storyWeek 16Reform: abolition, women's rights, religious revivals — campaigns with textsWeek 17Sectional crisis 1840s–1850s: territories, law, and violenceWeek 18Midyear: Constitution-to-1860 document battery
Unit 3: Depth & application
Weeks 19–27Week 19Secession and Civil War (1861–1865): Union, slavery, and turning pointsWeek 20Lincoln documents: First Inaugural, Emancipation, Gettysburg, Second InauguralWeek 21Reconstruction amendments 13, 14, 15 — citizenship and its enemiesWeek 22The Gilded Age: industry, cities, inequality, and party machinesWeek 23Immigration, nativism, and Jim Crow as legal regimesWeek 24Progressives and the expanding federal role — statutes you can nameWeek 25U.S. as a world power: 1898, WWI, and the failed League fightWeek 26Depression, New Deal programs, and arguments about them (multi-view)Week 27World War II: strategy, production, and incarceration at home
Unit 4: Mastery & showcase
Weeks 28–36Week 28Cold War: containment, Korea, nuclear fact, and domestic fearWeek 29Civil Rights movement: legal strategy, nonviolence, and federal powerWeek 301965–1980: Vietnam, rights revolutions, and backlash (survey)Week 31Citizenship beyond a test: how to read a law, a budget, and a ballotWeek 32State and local government deep: who taxes, who polices, who schoolsWeek 33Primary anthology: 8 documents from Constitution to Civil RightsWeek 34Thematic essay: liberty and union, 1776–1877, with citationsWeek 35Oral defense: Tenth Amendment vs a listed federal powerWeek 36Constitution-to-Civil-Rights document defense (credit evidence)