Omnibus VI, for grades 10 and up and those students who have completed Omnibus III, is the capstone course for the Omnibus curriculum. Omnibus VI covers modern U.S. and British history, engaging the student at a higher academic level. ​Students delve into more difficult texts selected from the greatest works of Western Civilization in addition to secondary books that add interest and variety to our study. Through the course, students polish their critical thinking skills, apply rhetoric to their writing and speaking, and cultivate a life of wisdom.

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BOOKLIST FOR THE MODERN WORLD (OMNIBUS VI)*

Omnibus VI Student Text plus books like the following:​

• Paradise Lost (Milton)

• Leviathan (Hobbes, selections)

• Pensées (Pascal, selections)

• The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Kramnick, ed.)

• Emma (Austen)

• Hamlet (Shakespeare)

• Common Sense (Paine)

• Foundational American Documents

• Self-Reliance (Emerson)

• Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)

• American and French Revolutions (von Gentz)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)

• The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)

• Lee: The Last Years (Flood)

• Moby-Dick (Melville)

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)

• Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche)

• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)

• Heart of Darkness (Conrad)

• The Guns of August (Tuchman)

• Christianity and Liberalism (Machen)

• Perelandra (Lewis)

• Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis)

• That Hideous Strength (Lewis)

• Day of Infamy (Lord)

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail (King)

• The Poetry of T.S. Eliot (selections)

• The Elements of Style, 4th edition (Strunk & White)

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* Represents the list from which readings are chosen as well as the relative order in which they are presented. Bible books and some short selections are not listed. An official booklist will be provided for registered students.