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This may be an idea that others have already thought of, but I thought I would pass it along.  A few years back in our homeschool I felt compelled to be certain that my children could recall many of our nation's & world's important documents so I bought some parchment-colored cardstock paper & had the children copy pertinent lines from these documents in their fanciest writing & decorate the edges of the documents for that time period.  We did a document a day.  Here are some of the documents we "made:"

Magna Charta, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, Articles of Confederation, Treaty(s) of Paris, Emmancipation Proclamation, Monroe Doctrine, Bill of Rights, Ten Commandments. 

I saved the documents the children copied.  We used these documents as a review from time to time.  This became a springboard for other ideas such as playing "name that era" where we would select a time period like perhaps 1700-1750 & each one would have to name a person, event, invention or some relevant piece of information for that time period.  It was fun & it helped to cement in our minds the correct placement of these persons and events.  It seemed more like a game when we used a timer as we would try to "beat the clock."  Have fun for the long-haul!

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