If you don't know your history, you are bound to repeat it...

In The Value of Learning History by John Piper, he ends with: "Is it not clear, then, that God ordains that events happen and that they get recorded as history so that we will learn them and become wiser and more insightful about the present for the sake of Christ and his church. Never stop learning history. Gain some knowledge every day. And let us give our children one of the best protections against the folly of the future, namely, a knowledge of the past."

Besides reading the Bible to our kids - the most important way of giving our children a knowledge of the past - we use Veritas Press History which does a great job of going chronologically through world history intergrating biblical and secular history together. After all, it is all His Story. God is sovereignly working everything together for His glory.