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wonder if you could suggest to me one or two good history text
books for children which tell history the way it is (i.e. from
the Catholic viewpoint)? My wife and I recently started home-
schooling our children and as part of our history teaching
material we obtained a copy of an American Catholic school
history textbook (originally published in 1937) from a
traditional home school book supplier in the United States. I
thought that the book, entitled, The Old World and America by
Rev. PJ Furlong, given its pre-Vatican II imprimatur, would be
‘safe’ to use with our children. In many respects the book seems
fine but I was alarmed to read that of the three types of
government described in the Greek history section: Monarchy,
Aristocracy and Democracy; ‘the ideal form of government is that
kind in which the people rule themselves (i.