This format remains constant through the history books published in subsequent years. Rather than picking up in the middle to describe the American revolution, Foster’s approach allowed her to share with readers the events through America, overseas in Europe, and even in countries far east, as well introduce the lives of other eminent characters, thus providing a more complete view of the world in which Washington was born, grew up, fought, and ruled. The first book that Foster released, George Washington’s World (1941), focused on 1732 to 1799, George Washington’s lifetime. She saw history as a drama composed of the interconnection of various events, and sought to convey these relationships through her own works. Through her school years, history most confused Foster, written as it was as a mishmash of facts, dates, names, and events that little than a timeline and maps connected. Foster compared the narration of contemporary history textbooks to dull plays in which one character took center stage while the rest meandered on the sidelines, mumbling lines out of sight of the audience. She observed that her daughter Joanna’s history textbooks gave a limited view, focusing on one person or one nation to teach on an entire era. Over her career, Foster wrote and illustrated nineteen history “textbooks” that took a horizontal approach to history, rather than vertical. Then, in 7th grade, we discovered the “horizontal history” stories of children’s book illustrator Genevieve Foster. The first few years, we had the most trouble finding thorough, interesting curricula for history.
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