History from creation to the present is studied at Valor on a three year cycle. The 2023-2024 school year is on Cycle 2 and will be studying history from around the year 500 to 1750.

Cycle 1 studies history from the beginning of the world according to the Bible to about AD 1300.  Some of the subjects include Mesopotamia, early Egypt, early China, Israel, early Greeks, the Roman Empire, world religions, early Christian church history, Islam, the Americas, Mesoamerica, the Crusades, feudalism, the Mongols, and the Ottoman Empire.

Subjects studied in Cycle 2 include African empires, colonization, the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Columbian Exchange, English colonization, the industrial revolution and the history of other countries including India, Japan, Spain, England, France, and Canada.

Cycle 3 studies modern history and U.S. History from European colonization to the present. Topics include the colonial period, the Revolutionary era, the Constitution, economic and territorial expansion, sectional tensions, the Civil War, reconstruction, the New South, the New West, foreign affairs, industrialization, the Progressive Era, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War and present issues.