Homeschool Days

The Atlanta History Center offers special monthly programs for homeschool students and their families. Each month explores a different subject through exhibition tours and a variety of activities for kids from toddler to teen. Admission to Homeschool Days is $7.50 for nonmembers; $5.50 for children of members; and free for adult members.  Discounted rates are available for groups with 10 or more children.  For information or to make group reservations, call 404.814.4018 or email us.  

Now That’s Entertainment!
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
1:00- 4:00 PM

How does entertainment connect with history? Explore our exhibition, Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment, and see how entertainment helped define different generations.


Heroes on the Homefront
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
1:00 - 4:00 PM

Our nation is defined by more than the record of military battles that are won and lost. It also includes the everyday struggles waged on the homefront. Through Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, and Rosie the Riveter, discover the roles that women and homefront heroes played in the building of our nation.

First Contact
Thursday, April 12, 2012
1:00 - 4:00 PM

When European voyagers arrived in the New World, the collision between native people and foreign explorers had dramatic and often unintended results. Explore how these cultures interacted, through the European effect on America as well as the impact of the New World on the Old.

Generations of Education
Friday, May 18, 2012
1:00 - 4:00 PM

Learn Native American hunting skills like a Creek or Cherokee child. Sit at a desk in a nineteenth-century home, learning the “three Rs:” reading, writing, and arithmetic. Understand what it was like to teach in the first public schools in Atlanta. Train to become a domestic servant or work in a twentieth-century factory. In this highly interactive program, experience how education changed through time as technology and social roles shifted.