Every item in the Waypoints Library is presented in full, unabridged and unaltered. These documents appear as their authors wrote them, including language that may be unfamiliar or even challenging for modern readers. To study history honestly, we must encounter the past as it was, not as some today might wish to revise it.
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Core Eras
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— Waypoints Curators
We began with a simple question: Which pivotal historical documents should well-educated high school students know by the time they graduate?
Our answer is the curated collection below: 139 primary-source documents organized into four categories:
Note: The Waypoints Library is being completed. Many titles are already published and available for study. The remaining titles marked “Coming Soon” are being prepared and published weekly.
Each document has been beautifully published
Includes side-by-side vocabulary glossaries and audio narrations.
Answers to frequently asked questions about our pedagogical framework.
What is Waypoints?
Waypoints is a serious civic learning platform. It helps you study and teach America’s essential documents—and the ideas behind them.
The Waypoints Library includes beautifully published primary-source documents accompanied by written and video tutorials. Together, these materials help teachers, parents, students, and lifelong learners explore American history, political philosophy, economics, liberty, and the challenge of self-government.
Is Waypoints a curriculum?
No. Waypoints is supplemental by design.
Waypoints is not meant to replace an existing history, civics, government, economics, or humanities curriculum. It is designed to strengthen the curriculum you already use by helping teachers, parents, and students study essential primary sources more deeply.
Is Waypoints a lesson-plan site?
Not exactly. Waypoints is not a warehouse of ready-made daily lesson plans. Waypoints is a primary-source teaching and learning resource designed to help teachers understand essential documents and bring them into the classroom with confidence. Many tutorials include discussion questions, writing assignments, and classroom activities, but Waypoints begins with the documents themselves.
Who is Waypoints for?
Waypoints is for teachers, school and district resource recommenders, homeschooling parents, lifelong learners, and anyone who wants to study America’s essential documents and the ideas behind them.
It is especially useful for those who want to understand liberty, constitutional self-government, and the moral and civic principles that shape the American experiment.
What is included in a Free Trial?
The Free Trial gives you access to selected Waypoints materials so you can see how the platform works before choosing a plan.
You can explore selected primary-source documents from the Waypoints Library, along with related written and video tutorials. It is the best way to see how Waypoints helps users study and teach primary sources with greater confidence.
Which plan should I choose?
Choose the Home Plan if you are a homeschooling family, parent, individual learner, or small household seeking access to Waypoints.
Choose the Academy Plan if you want access for a school, academy, department, or group of educators and students.
Choose a Custom Plan if you represent a district, charter network, larger organization, homeschool co-op, civic group, or special program with needs beyond the standard plans.
If you are not sure where to begin, start with the Free Trial.
Plans Built for Learners & Institutions
Educators receive primary-source documents, teacher tutorials, and instructional keys.
Student accounts are customized for focused, distraction-free primary-source study.
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