Testimonies & Reviews
- Customer Review:
DTH is fantastic! I have little boys…ages 4 & 5 and it is among their most favorite shows to watch. They think Dave is a crack up and they giggle all the way through it. We took this series when we drove through New England last summer and it was a fantastic resource. But besides using it for our home schooling, we watch it just for fun as well. My 4 year old quotes the Lexington battle green words. "Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war, let it begin here." So much has been gleaned from this series. Well done!
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- Review by: Michael Farris, Chancellor & Founder of Patrick Henry College
Drive Thru History America offers a compelling look at the life
stories and moral character of nine great Americans. With a delightfully wacky narrator and fast-moving visuals, it will grab the attention of our media savvy children and reveal history as a great story of real people, not the dry recitation of dates and places and battles. All students will be fascinated with this material, but especially boys! They will learn that you do not have to be boring to be a leader with the kind of character that matters.
The Christian focus of this presentation is historically accurate without being preachy. It is socially balanced, not by the standards of multi-cultural sameness, but by the standards of God's Word which declares that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female. What a great asset for home schoolers, indeed for all Americans!
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- Review by: Homeschooling Parent's Magazine
"Extremely entertaining! Outstanding! Getting kids interested in history is no challenge with this program."
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- Review by: Kyle Zook, The Link Homeschooling Magazine
Drive Thru History America is the fifth installment of the wacky historical series hosted by Dave Stotts and presented by National Day of Prayer. Fasten your seatbelts, Dave Stotts is a charismatic narrator who drives from one historical destination to the next while giving short, but pithy, explanations of the people who helped to form the foundations of Western culture. This time around the focus is on the Foundations of Character and the patriots who shaped the America we know today.
Perhaps you have been lucky enough to catch this great series on the History Channel International. If so, you will see the same excellent technical values in this new series that made the original Drive Thru History series so popular. This time around, Dave gets an H1 Hummer, and he seems much more excited about this vehicle than the tiny smart car he drove around Rome in the first season. So, armed with this behemoth, Dave is off to explore the places America’s founders hailed from such as Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Virginia.
The lives of eight of our founding fathers (and mothers, since Abigail Adams, wife of one president and mother of another, is examined). Three Benjamins are also examined, the obvious Benjamin Franklin but also Benjamin Rush, “father of American medicine,” and Benjamin Banneker, a free black who struggled against prejudice to follow his dreams of becoming a mathematician. Rounding out the curriculum is John Quincy Adams, who toiled against popular opinion to do what he thought was right; Noah Webster, who published the first American dictionary; and Haym Solomon, a Jewish man who helped finance the American Revolution at their time of need. And of course, the curriculum would not be complete without a rest stop with the most noted founding father of all, George Washington.
Drive Thru History America is a values-based curriculum, so the focus is on how the Judeo-Christian values of our forefathers shaped the nation. To that end, Dave Stotts explores the lives of some of the great Americans who rose to the occasion, and whose spiritual values influenced the way the nation developed. The series explores these values in a way that is relevant but never preachy, so it is suitable for just about anyone, regardless of their religious feelings.
With the Homeschool Curriculum Kit of Drive Thru History America you will receive not only a 90-minute DVD of the series presentation broken into the individual segments, but also a 134-page booklet with a curriculum developed by historian David Barton and Nita Thompson, Ed.D., upon whose work the series is based. You can also find e-documents of the Student and Teacher versions of this curriculum on the DVD itself, which you can access through any computer. These e-documents can be very handy for reproducing the student lessons presented in the workbook.
All in all, this is a great value for a great product that will help your children understand that it was not just outstanding people who helped shape this country, but people who had convictions that stemmed from their powerful spiritual values that provided the source of all their strength. And, well, the kids will love it. It’s a wonderful series, and Dave makes learning history a lot of fun. Kids will crack up over his crazy antics, such a dressing up in colonial garb and walking down modern day Boston. This is an extremely well-produced series, so if you’re still not convinced, you should take a look at their web site, which should give you a good feel for the quality of this series.
Also, if you like this series, there are four others you can take advantage of as well; you can cover the Ancient world such as Rome, Greece and Turkey; perfect for families who are focusing on a Classical perspective. K.Z.