Online history courses, taught one to one.
Cicero teaches history the way it deserves to be taught: as an argument, not a timeline. Eight accredited online history courses for grades 5–12 — including AP US History, AP World History and AP European History — each taught by one specialist teacher to one student.
No lecture hall, no fifty-minute bell. Your child reads primary sources, argues a position, and writes it properly — with a historian across the screen who has time to disagree with them.
- 8
- history courses
- 5–12
- Grades taught
- 1:1
- Class size
- Cognia
- Accredited credit
What an online history class actually looks like.
Two sessions a week, live, with the same teacher all year. Between sessions your child reads, writes, and comes back with questions. The teacher sets the reading around what the student can actually carry — a strong reader in eighth grade gets Thucydides; a reluctant one gets there by a different road.
Because it is one-to-one, the syllabus bends. A student who becomes obsessed with the Peloponnesian War spends three weeks there. A student preparing for AP US History in May works backwards from the exam. Both finish with a transcript grade and a portfolio of real essays.
Primary sources from the start
Students usually read what people actually wrote — letters, speeches, treaties — instead of a textbook's summary of them.
Writing every week
Historical writing is a key life skill, and we use our history courses to hone it sharply.
Discussion-based
One student and one teacher means the session is heavily discussion-based, with the student encouraged to do most of the speaking.
Grades and credit that travel
Cicero is accredited with NCA CASI, NWAC and SACS CASI via Cognia. Coursework earns a transcript colleges recognize.
History courses we teach
8 courses · grades 5–12Every course below is taught one-to-one and can start any month of the year. Don't see what your child needs? We build courses on request: several of these started as one family's inquiry.
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- Primary, Middle School, High School
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AP history, one student at a time.
AP history exams punish students who can recall but cannot argue. One-to-one is where that gets fixed: every essay is read closely, marked against the real rubric, and rewritten. Our AP history teachers have between them read for the College Board, taught the course a dozen times, or both.
Students can take an AP history course as their only AP, or alongside others. We schedule around the family, not a school timetable.
- 4.7
- Average AP score across Cicero students
- 80%
- Of Cicero students score a 5
- 3
- AP history courses — Art, US, World Modern
The historians who teach these courses
We hire subject specialists, not generalists with a spare period. Every history teacher has advanced study in the field and years of one-to-one teaching behind them.
25 more history teachers
We match on subject, level and temperament — the last one matters more than families expect.
Why history is the subject that gains most from one-to-one.
It is a conversation
History is argument. A student who never has to defend a claim out loud never learns the subject — and in a classroom of thirty, almost none of them do.
The reading can be right
A textbook is pitched at an average student who does not exist. One teacher, one student means the sources are chosen for the reader in front of them.
Essays get read properly
Every essay comes back marked line by line and gets rewritten. That loop is the whole of historical writing, and it is the first thing class size takes away.
“My son went from hating history to reading Tacitus for fun. It took one teacher who was willing to argue with him.”
Frequently asked questions about our online history courses
What online history courses does Cicero offer?
Eight courses for grades 5–12: AP US History, AP World History: Modern, AP European History, full-year surveys in World History and US History, and electives such as Ancient Rome and Modern Europe. If your child needs something not listed, ask; several of these courses began as one family's request.
Are Cicero's history courses accredited?
Yes. Cicero is accredited with NCA CASI, NWAC and SACS CASI via Cognia, so history coursework earns real grades, credits and a transcript colleges recognize — including for families who otherwise homeschool.
Can my student take AP US History one-to-one?
Yes, and it is one of our most requested courses. Every AP history course is taught by one teacher to one student, scheduled around your family, with exam preparation built into the year rather than added in spring.
What grades are the history courses for?
Grades 5–12. Because teaching is one-to-one, a course is pitched at the student in front of the teacher rather than at a grade average — a strong twelve-year-old and a cautious sixteen-year-old can take the same course very differently.
How many sessions a week, and how long is a course?
Typically two live sessions a week across a 30-week year, with reading and writing in between. Semester electives run 15 weeks. Start dates are rolling — we do not wait for September.
Do you teach history to students outside the US?
Yes. About half our families are outside the United States, including families travelling full time. Sessions are scheduled to your time zone and your child keeps the same teacher wherever you are.
Other subject areas
History pairs well with literature and writing — many of our families run the two together.
Find the history teacher who changes everything.
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