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The history of the world is largely the history of movement. We speak of ancient cultures as though they were immobile, often forgetting that the greatest empires were often comprised primarily of displaced peoples. Genghis Khan uprooted entire populations and put them elsewhere in order to encourage homogeneity within his realm. How did he get them from place to place?

In the age of Learjets and bullet trains, the invention of the wheel seems distant and almost inconsequential. Riding horses is a little more immediate (oddly) because people still do that, but unless you're Amish or Mennonite Brethren living in the eastern United States, carts, wagons and buggies are mere images flickering against the faded screen of the past.

Still, the wheel is one of the building blocks of civilization. Things like wagons, trains, and cars would never have been developed without the wheel, and by extension we probably wouldn't have airplanes either. Boats and ships are a slightly different story, but the technology that allowed early civilizations to put to sea is as foundational as that used to make wheels.

Man has always been fascinated with movement of all kinds, not least the modes of conveyance used to get people and things around. It's important for Christians to remember that God's will is ultimately what allows advances in transportation technology, which (rather than ending the discussion) is the best reason to study it in the first place. To that end, we offer a variety of resources covering a variety of vehicles and inventions.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
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Anthropology

Cultural History

History of Transportation

History of Transportation

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Automotive History

Aviation History

Nautical History

Transcontinental Railroad

Transportation Coloring Books

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	All About Aviation All About Books #51 by Robert D. Loomis from Random House for 3rd-6th grade in All About Books (Location: VIN-ALL)
	All About Sailing the Seven Seas All About Books #40 by Ruth Brindze from Random House for 4th-7th grade in All About Books (Location: VIN-ALL)
	Blockade Runners and Ironclads by Wallace B. Black from Franklin Watts for 3rd-5th grade in American Civil War (1860-1865) (Location: HISA-19CW) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone from Golden Press for 4th-10th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
	Charles Lindbergh Hero Pilot A Discovery Book by David R. Collins from Garrard Publishing Company for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Commodore Perry in Japan by Robert Reynolds from American Heritage Publishing Co. for 4th-8th grade in American Heritage Junior Library (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Drake: The Man They Called a Pirate by Jean Lee Latham from Harper & Brothers for 4th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Early Automobiles The Story of Horseless Carriages from the Clock-Spring Car of 1649 to Henry Ford's Model T Golden Library of Knowledge by Eugene Rachlis, illustrated by Jack Coggins from Golden Press for 1st-5th grade in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
	First Ships Around the World from Lerner Publishing Group for 4th-6th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
	Flight: A Panorama of Aviation by Melvin B. Zisfein; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker from Pantheon Books for 4th-6th grade in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Great Railroad Race The Diary of Libby West Dear America by Kristiana Gregory from Scholastic Inc. Fictional historical journal for 3rd-6th grade in Dear America Books (Location: SER-DEAR)
	Great Trains of All Time by Freeman Hubbard; illustrated by Herb Mott from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-Adult in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
	How We Travel A Geographical Reader by James Franklin Chamberlain from Macmillan for 2nd-4th grade in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Ideas That Changed the World: Transportation by Philip Wilkinson and Michael Pollard, Illustrated by Robert Ingpen from Chelsea House Publishing for 4th-7th grade in How Things Work (Location: SCIREF-HOW) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Indestructible Commodore Matthew Perry by Arthur Orrmont from Julian Messner for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Ironclads of the Civil War by Frank R. Donovan from American Heritage Publishing Co. for 4th-8th grade in American Heritage Junior Library (Location: VIN-HIS)
	John Paul Jones A Discovery Book by Stewart Graff, illustrated by William Hutchinson from Garrard Publishing Company for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Leif the Lucky Discoverer of America by Erick Berry from Garrard Publishing Company for 2nd-4th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Lindbergh Tale of a Flying Mouse Classic Starts by Torben Kuhlmann, Translated by David Henry Wilson from NorthSouth for 2nd-6th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $19.95 $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Lindbergh Alone May 21, 1927 by Brendan Gill from Harcourt, Brace & World for 4th-9th grade in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	Mutiny on the Bounty by Patrick O'Brien from Walker and Company for 2nd-4th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Nelson and the Age of Fighting Sail by Oliver Warner from Harper & Row for 4th-8th grade in Horizon Caravel Books (Location: VIN-HOR)
	Pirates An Illustrated History by Nigel Cawthorne from Chartwell Books for 4th-8th grade in Pirates (Location: HISV-PIRATE) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Red Baron by Richard A. Boning, illustrated by Harry Schaare from Dexter & Westbrook for 3rd-6th grade in World War I (1914-1919) (Location: HISA-20WW1) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude by Louise Borden 1^st edition from Margaret K. McElderry Books for 4th-8th grade in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Sea Disasters by Walter R. Brown & Norman D. Anderson from Addison Wesley for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Ships and Boats by Chris Oxlade from Shooting Star Press for 4th-6th grade in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP) $5.00 (2 in stock)
	Ships at Work by Mary Elting; illustrated by Manning De V. Lee from Harvey House, Inc., Publishers for 4th-6th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Ships Visual Encyclopedia by David Ross from Amber Books for 3rd-Adult in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
	Spanish Armada by Jay Williams from Harper & Row for 4th-8th grade in Horizon Caravel Books (Location: VIN-HOR)
	Spanish Armada by C. Hodges from Coward McCann for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections: Man-of-War by Stephen Biesty from DK Publishing for 1st-4th grade in Oversized History Books (Location: HISW-OVER) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Amelia Earhart Signature Books #33 by Adele de Leeuw, illustrated by Harry Beckhoff from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Flight by Mary Lee Settle from Random House for 4th-7th grade in Step Up Books (Location: VIN-STEP)
	Story of Henry Ford & the Automobile Cornerstones of Freedom by Zachary Kent from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of Old Ironsides by Norman Richards, illustrated by Tom Dunnington from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of Ships From Log Raft the Atomic Power in Full Color by Frank O. Braynard, paintings by Fouille from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Stephen Decatur Grosset & Dunlap Signature #29 by Iris Vinton, illustrated by Graham Kaye from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of the Clipper Ships Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of the Golden Spike Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Stein Conrad from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of The Lafayette Escadrille Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of the Spirit of St. Louis Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 2nd-6th grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of the Spirit of St. Louis Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 2nd-5th grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Take Command, Captain Farragut! by Peter Roop, Connie Roop 1^st edition for 3rd-6th grade in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
	To Fly The Story of the Wright Brothers by Wendie C. Old, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker from Clarion Books for 4th-6th grade 2003 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $17.99
	Wings of Mystery by Dale M. Titler for 4th-8th grade in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA)
	Year of the Flying Machine, 1903 by Genevieve Foster from Charles Scribner's Sons for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)

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