The story is incomplete without her.
Students see how belief and the Church influenced people, laws, learning, institutions, and civilizations.
Evaluate the fit
Follow the questions that matter to your role.
You do not need to schedule a conversation to begin a serious review. Start with the criteria below, open the materials, and contact Thomas only when it would be useful.
For administrators
Does this strengthen mission, coherence, and classroom practice?
Evaluate whether CTP gives your school a faithful, academically serious history program with a coherent sequence and a realistic path to adoption.
- Catholic worldview throughout the historical account
- Historical accuracy and intellectual credibility
- Documented alignment with state standards
- A coherent, flexible path from Grades 4–8
- A classroom pilot before making a decision
- Clear next steps for samples, quotes, and adoption
A curriculum decision tool
Can I confidently approve this curriculum?
This page will walk you through the five decisions below. As you move down the page, you can examine the evidence, open the supporting materials, involve a teacher, and choose the next step that fits your school.
- 01Mission
- 02Curriculum
- 03Standards
- 04Teacher fit
- 05Decision
Catholic identity + academic rigor
The Church is crucial to the story of history.
These are history textbooks—not religion textbooks. The Church appears in her proper historical context wherever she shaped events, institutions, art, ideas, conflict, reform, and culture.
Examine a real chapter →The good and the bad remain visible.
Achievements and failures, saints and sinners, reform and conflict are presented without hiding the Church or turning history into triumphalism.
Context does not replace scholarship.
Documents, maps, speeches, artifacts, and primary sources help students examine the evidence behind the narrative.