Roman Roads Press

07/16/2025

Roman Roads Press is honored to once again host the online stream for the CiRCE Institute Conference.

The theme this year is "A Contemplation of Building(s)" and you can join from home!

Register:
https://circeinstitute.org/product/2025-national-conference-virtual-ticket/

07/13/2025

Prepare your shelf! (Say that out loud 3x) 📚📚📚

THREE REASONS to have a PHYSICAL home Library.

1. Aesthetics and memory. Do you ever remember an idea while remembering the physical page you read it on? Perhaps your own margin notes? Or perhaps the texture (especially for very old books)? Real books are beautiful and help you remember ideas and literary experiences.

2. Children who grow up around physical books are more likely to love them, and be more intelligent and proficient in multiple areas. (Look up the Smithsonian article on this study.)

3. Physical book can’t be canceled. They can’t be pulled from your device, edited while you sleep, and don’t require power.

Aquire a home library!

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Photo: Daniel Foucachon in Peter Leithart’s home library, circa 2007.

07/12/2025

Elizabeth Landis on the Mike Church Show discussing The Forgotten Realm: Civics for American Christians at conference.

Civic education and engagement will transform the next generation! Watch for the podcast to drop soon at mikechurch.com

07/10/2025

“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Poetry and Politics guides students through a tumultuous period of significant change in Western civilization. Nations and individuals grapple with questions of identity, what it means to be free, and what it means to be human. Enjoy the poetry of Pope, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browing, Arnold, Rossetti, Hopkins, and Poe. Explore the political treatises of Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville. Learn how these works reflect the period and influenced future generations.

Learn more: OldWesternCulture.com (see Year 4)

Lecture list from this unit:
1. Introduction to Enlightenment
2. Alexander Pope I
3. Alexander Pope II
4. Edmund Burke I
5. Edmund Burke II
6. Romantic Poetry I
7. Romantic Poetry II
8. Victorian Poetry and Democracy in America
9. Edgar Allen Poe
10. Victorian Poetry I
11. Victorian Poetry II
12. Victorian Poetry III

07/09/2025

"They thought they weren't good at math..."

Give your students the big picture of mathematics. That change of perspective can shape their life.

Calculus for Everyone is an interdisciplinary, classical, Christian math course with a vision to mend the broken relationship between STEM and the Liberal Arts.

Learn more:
Calculus4Everyone.com

Testimonials and Resources:
https://app.romanroadspress.com/c4e/

07/09/2025

The vision: to mend the broken relationship between STEM and the liberal arts.

Dr. Mitch Stokes believes this rapture is greatly harming the advance of science in particular. Calculus, properly taught from a historical, integrated perspective, is the ideal place to begin mending this relationship.

What does “For Everyone” mean? It means it can replace Calculus for the majority of students who would otherwise consider not taking Calculus at all, giving them a solid foundation and overview of the subject.

And for the STEM oriented student (the future engineer or scientist, etc), this book precedes and builds a foundation for higher mathematics, including Calculus I.

The feedback we received from scientists and engineers, as well as career math teachers has been almost unanimous: “What I would have given to have had this before I took advanced math in college!”

Give your students the gift of understanding how it all fits together. Give them Calculus for Everyone:
http://www.Calculus4Everyone.com

CLASSICAL STEM CALCULUS FOR EVERYONE Understanding Physics and the Mathematics of Change By Dr. Mitch Stokes Calculus for Everyone Calculus for Everyone: Understanding Physics and the Mathematics of Change by Dr. Mitch Stokes. Calculus for Everyone teaches Calculus. But it also represents one of th...

07/06/2025

For a few more days, save 20% on Old Western Culture with code JULY4.

From the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans, to the Medieval period, to the early modern period, study the works that built Western civilization.

OldWestwesternCulture.com

07/06/2025

Lewis put it best:

"There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found as a tutor in English Literature that if the average student wants to find out something about Platonism, the very last thing he thinks of doing is to take a translation of Plato off the library shelf and read the Symposium. He would rather read some dreary modern book ten times as long, all about “isms” and influences and only once in twelve pages telling him what Plato actually said."
– C.S. Lewis, introduction to Athanasius's On the Incarnation

If you're new to classical education, don't read 10 books about classical education.

Read a great book. Old Western Culture can be your guide, and won't get in the way of the text, but rather guide you *through* it.

ReadHomer.com
ReadMilton.com
ReadDante.com

OldWesternCulture.com

07/05/2025

Early Americans read the great books, especially the Greek and Roman historians and poets.

Read the great books: OldWesternCulture.com
Great Books for adults: GreatBooksChallenge.com

07/04/2025

Happy Independence Day!

Learn about how our government by the people and for the people works in The Forgotten Realm: Civics for American Christians.

Learn more at CivilRealm.com, and save 20% with code JULY4!