High School Correspondence Courses

Available since 1994, Pilgrim Institute's premier history series offers your student the teaching expertise of leading master teachers in America's Christian History and Government. 

• Administered by Parents
• Suggested Schedule
• Supervisor's Instructions
• Assignments Reviewed or Graded
• Certificate of Completion

The series currently includes Rudiments of America's Christian History and Government and an advanced course, American History: Christian Self-Government with Union.

That the Generation to Come Might Know

Foremost in the minds and hearts of America's founding generation was a burning desire to secure liberty for themselves and their posterity. Their vision extended forward, from their generation to those who would succeed them. Consequently they thoughtfully considered the unique education necessary to support and maintain liberty in the newly founded Christian republic.

Samuel Adams said it this way, “Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and . . . the love of their country; of instructing them in the art of self-government . . .” (CHOC, p. XIV)

So, for a time parents in America trained their young people at home and in local schools in the “Biblical principles by which they had lived for over one hundred and fifty years, i.e., God's principle of individuality, Christian self-government, property, and voluntary union.” And America flourished. (C&P, p. xxiv)

Thankfully, God raised up individuals who would dedicate themselves to calling American Christians back to Biblical principles of education and government. Verna Hall's life was dedicated to turning the tide of socialism which she saw sweeping across America. She wrote, “The rebuilding of America’s Christian foundation and its superstructure of individual freedom, begins in the homes of American Christians, with the adults of this generation putting a stop to the ignorance of America’s Christian history.” (C&P, p. xxxv)

If you are, as Verna Hall said, one of “those American Christian parents who will obey their God-given instructions, and take back the supervision of their children's education, which includes teaching the Hand of God in America’s history”, we invite you to put Pilgrim Institute resources to work for you and your family.

Perhaps you feel uncertain or inadequate as to how your young people can be trained in the Biblical principles of liberty. The expertise of those who have been teaching these principles and ideas to children and youth since the 1970's is available for your individual home or classroom.

"As the student builds his understanding of Biblical principles of self and civil government he is equipped for American Christian citizenship, discerning the Biblical principles necessary to address any issue of neighborhood, city, county, state, and national government.”

Rudiments of America's Christian History and Government Course

American History: Christian Self-Government with Union Course