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Since 2006, the American School Blog has kept students, parents and school officials up to date on what’s happening at American School. Below are our most recent blog posts. Visit the American School Blog Archive to read noteworthy blogs from over the years.
American School Closed Monday, February 17, 2025
American School will be closed on Monday, February 17. We will reopen with regular business hours on Tuesday, February 18, and look forward to assisting you with your accredited middle school program, accredited high school program or independent study program at...
Today’s Birthday: Abraham Lincoln
It’s February 12, and Abraham Lincoln was born on this date in 1809. It’s the perfect day to spotlight the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Museum in Springfield, Illinois. Several years ago, American School employees visited the downstate library and museum...
Today’s Birthday: Thomas Edison
It’s February 11, and inventor Thomas Edison was born on this date in 1847. He invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera and the lightbulb among thousands of other inventions, and so naturally his birthday got us thinking about inventions. Since American...
Today’s Anniversary: Deep Blue
It’s February 10, and on this date in 1996 a computer known as Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov for the first time. This event got us thinking about computers and what they can do. Nearly 30 years ago, it was a big deal when a computer defeated a...
Today’s Birthday: Laura Ingalls Wilder
It’s February 7, and author Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on this date in 1867. She is best-known for her Little House on the Prairie children’s books which were adapted into a television series in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her birthday got us thinking about...
Today’s Anniversary: Massachusetts
It’s February 6, and Massachusetts became a state on this date in 1788. Massachusetts is a special state to us at American School because we were founded in Massachusetts in 1897. Although we called Massachusetts home for just a few years before moving to Illinois,...
National School Counseling Week 2025
It’s February 5, and we’re at the exact halfway point of National School Counseling Week. American School is proud to work with thousands of school counselors across the country through our independent study program. The independent study program allows students who...
Today’s Anniversary: Facebook
It’s February 4, and Facebook was founded on this date in 2004. This is the perfect time to remind you that American School has a Facebook page. It is our only active social media page, and it is the place where we sometimes post information about last-minute...
Groundhog Day 2025
It’s February 3, and yesterday was Groundhog Day. We can report that the American School Groundhog saw its shadow, which means we might be in store for six more weeks of winter. No matter the season, it’s always a great time of year to enroll and become an American...
New Year’s Resolutions
It’s January 31, which means we are one month into 2025. It’s a good time to think about the New Year’s resolutions we made one month ago. How many of them are still valid? How many of them have already been broken? How many of them have been forgotten about? If...
Testimonial Thursday
It’s a Thursday, so it’s time for our first Testimonial Thursday of 2025. Edgar from Illinois writes, “When I first received my materials, I thought it would be difficult to understand what to do. Then I started to read the instructions and learning at home became...
Today’s Anniversary: Kansas
It’s January 29, and Kansas became a state on this date in 1861. Kansas is known as the Sunflower State and so today is a good day to highlight our biology courses. We offer a Biology (non-lab) course among our high school correspondence courses and a Biology with...
Today’s Anniversary: Pride and Prejudice
It’s January 28, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published in the United Kingdom on this date in 1813. More than 200 years later, this classic novel has been read by students and adults all over the world, including those who enroll in our Literature 4:...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025
It’s January 27, and today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this date in 1945 Allied forces participated in the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp which helped bring about the end of the Holocaust and World War II. American School has a...
Today’s Anniversary: The California Gold Rush
It’s January 24, and the California Gold Rush began on this date in 1848. James Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California and soon thereafter more than 300,000 people traveled west to see if they could strike gold of their own. Today’s anniversary...
Today’s Birthday: John Hancock
It’s January 23, and John Hancock was born on this date in 1737. His signature is the most prominent on the Declaration of Independence and so today’s blog is going to talk about handwriting. We know that many students take our online middle school courses or online...
American School Selected As Best Homeschool Curriculum and Resources Award Winner
American School was recently earned a spot on HowToHomeschool.com’s Best Homeschool Curriculum and Resources List for 2025-2026. We are grateful for this honor which proves that many people believe we offer outstanding homeschool courses which students may take to...
Today’s Birthday: Karl Wallenda
It’s January 21, and circus performer Karl Wallenda was born on this date in 1905. He founded a group of high-wire artists that came to be known as the Flying Wallendas, and many members of the Flying Wallendas were American School students. American School has a...
American School Closed Monday, January 20, 2025
American School will be closed on Monday, January 20. We will reopen with regular business hours on Tuesday, January 21, and look forward to assisting you with your accredited middle school program, accredited high school program or independent study program at that...
Presidential Inauguration Set For January 20
It’s January 16, and four days from now the 47th President of the United States will be inaugurated on the west front of the United States Capitol. American School remains neutral on all political matters but chose to discuss the inauguration in today’s blog because...
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s January 15, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He was assassinated in 1968 but left behind a legacy of civil rights that continues today. A visit to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park and Preservation District’s...
Today’s Birthday: Mark Antony
It’s January 14, and ancient Roman statesman Mark Antony was born on this date in 83 B.C. In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Mark Antony utters the famous line, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,” and so today’s blog is going to talk about...
Today’s Anniversary: The National Geographic Society
It’s January 13, and the National Geographic Society was founded on this date in 1888. As you might imagine, today seems like a great day to talk about American School’s geography courses. Social Studies 6 is one of our accredited middle school courses and is...
Today’s Anniversary: Common Sense
It’s January 10, and Thomas Paine published his famous pamphlet Common Sense on this date in 1776. The pamphlet promoted American independence from Great Britain and is one of the most famous documents of the Revolutionary War era. Today’s blog is going to offer...
Today’s Anniversary: Connecticut
It’s January 9, and Connecticut became a state on this date in 1788. Connecticut has a few nicknames but one of them is The Land of Steady Habits. That unusual nickname got us thinking about steady habits and study habits, and it’s important for American School...