Uncover the Past

I started Forgotten Fragments because I couldn’t find the kind of history I wanted to teach my children.

After fifteen years of homeschooling three kids, I had seen a lot of history curriculum. Much of it followed the same familiar path: a mostly Western timeline, with only brief attention given to the wider world. It wasn’t that those stories didn’t matter. It was that so many others were missing.

I wanted my children to learn about the great civilizations of the world and the places that shaped them—cities like Fez, Baghdad, Cairo, and Timbuktu. I wanted them to see the sacred spaces, trade routes, and centers of learning that helped form whole ways of life. I wanted them to understand Islamic civilization as something rich and foundational, not something pushed to the margins.

I also wanted them to see that civilizations do not rise on their own. Every place is connected to what came before it and to what came after. History is not a set of isolated stories. It is one long, unfolding conversation.

That is the idea behind Forgotten Fragments. Each unit begins with a place—a building, a city, a landscape, or an archaeological site—and asks what people believed there, what those beliefs shaped, and how that place connects to the wider world.

I’m a homeschooling mother of three, a longtime reader of history, and I’m currently pursuing a master’s degree in this field because I want this work to be both meaningful and well-grounded.

If you’ve been looking for history that makes room for the fuller human story, you’re in the right place.