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The powerful legacy of classical education among Black intellectuals and teachers in America is a national treasure with the capacity to bless teachers and students the world over! In The Black Intellectual Tradition, authors Dr. Anika Prather and Dr. Angel Parham introduce us to readers, writers, teachers, artists, and people of action who loved, taught, and put into practice the wisdom and virtue of the great voices who came before.

These Black educators and intellectuals, while living with the injustices and hardships that gave them unique insights, mined the tradition, weaving it together with their African and African American heritage to create a new narrative that would aid all people in understanding injustice and was thus integral to the fight for liberation and equality. In the process, they brought to light a wealth of truth, goodness, and beauty from within the great tradition.

With this rich heritage increasingly lost from view, this book restores stories and experiences to us that will inform and inspire ideas for action and application within all classical schools and homeschools. Dr. Prather and Dr. Parham bring to the book two different scholarly perspectives and voices as well as their own personal experiences as classical educators, parents, and organizational leaders.

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Michael Clay Thompson spent more than a decade recording the words used in the great classics of English and American literature, as well as the instances of their use. In this book he explores the language of the classics, with separate chapters for the most important words as revealed by his research: countenance, profound, manifest, serene, sublime, prodigious, acute, clamor, exquisite, languor, grotesque, condescend, allude, odious, placid, incredulous, tremulous, visage, singular, and venerate. Each chapter includes an in-depth look at the way the word is used in the classics and by whom.

How did Michael arrive at these words? This is from his introduction:

“…I developed a computer database in which I collected the thousands of vocabulary examples I found [in classic literature]. In my computer, I entered the word, the sentence the word was in, the chapter, author, and title. King Lear took me 251 entries. Orwell’s 1984 took 315 entries. The Great Gatsby took 232 entries. Some summers I typed these words for hours every day. Ten years later I had collected 21,000 examples of words from seventy-six classics, and at last I have a sample large enough to know, with certainty, that some words are found in most of the best books in English and American literature. These classic words—words so venerable that they have become classics in themselves—are important to the profound understanding of most good novels, plays, poems, and essays and should be known to all of us as we embark on our journey through good literature.”

The book ends with a list of the 100 most frequently used words in the classics.

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History of Europe in the Modern World, Student Guide and Teacher’s Manual

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History of Europe in the Modern World, Student Guide and Teacher’s Manual

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