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You'll often hear proponents of whole-book education methods talk about the benefit of learning history through literature. They aren't talking about the kind of history you might learn in a textbook—for them, knowing the dates of the Thirty Years' War or the name of the first prime minister of Australia isn't that important. The kind of history you'll learn in novels and diaries and essays is cultural history.

How people live, what they learn in school, the weapons they use, their religion, how they perceive their role in the world: these are all elements of culture that fiction and private documents reveal much better and more thoroughly than books simply detailing facts. Source documents are the product as much of the culture in which they're written, after all, as they are the result of the authors' own invention.

Books simply about the customs and daily life of a people group do have their place, too. You might not have as intimate a portrait of Victorian England after reading What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew as you would after reading Great Expectations, but you'll learn plenty. Sometimes you just need the straightforward facts, and at times like those novels are not your friends.

The real question for many, however, isn't how do I learn about different cultures?, but WHY should I learn about different cultures? Well, there's no law saying you have to, but aside from the fun you can have doing so, learning about foreign or lost cultures is one way to better understand your own place in the grand scheme of things.

It's not that the Chinese New Year festival will shed any great light on your own situation, but the deeper you study the cultural contexts around the globe, the more you realize how similar people really are. Understanding connections is one of the great advantages of a well-rounded education; the connections between people a solid grounding in cultural history can offer are especially poignant.

Of course, reading about the origins of your own culture will help you understand why you do things the way you do, why you think the way you do, why the people around you are the way they are. As Christians, this knowledge can help us share the Gospel easier than if we knew nothing of the background of the people we try to reach, and that is the one reason for studying cultural history that trumps all the others.

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Roman History Reference for 4th-6th grade
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Arts of the Sailor
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Beethoven/Haydn Lapbook Set
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Biography for 5th-8th grade
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Biography for 3rd-6th grade
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Biography for 4th-6th grade
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2013 Newbery Honor Book, 2013 Robert F. Sibert Medal winner
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Champions of Mathematics
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Changing Times: Health & Disease
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Charles A. Lindbergh
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Clara Barton: Civil War Nurse
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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$9.50 (3 in stock)
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$2.50 (1 in stock)
Duke Ellington
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1st edition from Hyperion/Madison Press
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1999 Caldecott Honor Book
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Eating the Plates
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1st edition from Simon and Schuster
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$3.50 (1 in stock)
English Children's Costume
1965 Reprint from A & C Black Ltd.
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$25.00 (1 in stock)
English Weapons & Warfare 449-1660
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
Epidemic
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in History of Medicine (Location: SCI-HIS)
$11.00 (1 in stock)
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from Garden City Books
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Exploring the History of Medicine
Exploring Series
by John Hudson Tiner
from Master Books
for 5th-12th grade
in Memoria Press Science (Location: SCICUR-MP)
$15.19 $9.50 (3 in stock)
Exploring the History of Medicine - Teacher Key and Tests
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3rd edition from Memoria Press
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$8.95 $5.00 (2 in stock)
Exploring the World of Mathematics
Exploring Series
by John Hudson Tiner
from Master Books
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$15.19 $9.50 (2 in stock)
Exploring the World of Mathematics - Supplemental Questions
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2nd edition from Memoria Press
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$6.00 $3.50 (1 in stock)
Exploring the World of Mathematics - Teacher Key & Tests
by Cooper Boldrick
2nd edition from Memoria Press
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$8.95 $5.00 (1 in stock)
Fandex Family Field Guides: Painters
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
First Houses: Native American Homes and Sacred Structures
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from Houghton Mifflin
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
First Starry Night
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Melvin B. Zisfein; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
from Pantheon Books
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Florence Nightingale
Sowers Series
by David Collins
from Mott Media
Biography for 5th-7th grade
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Francis Scott Key
Sowers Series
by David Collins
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$8.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
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Dover Coloring Books
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$4.99 $3.00 (1 in stock)
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by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, illustrated by Lynd Ward
from William Morrow & Company
for 5th-8th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
From the Eagle's Wing
by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, illustrated by Lynd Ward
from William Morrow & Company
for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Galileo for Kids
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from Chicago Review Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Renaissance & Reformation (Location: HISW-REN)
$18.95 $12.00 (2 in stock)
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