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Modern History

There isn't more history in the last five centuries than all the previous millennia, we just have more plentiful records of it. In all honesty, sometimes the plethora of detail isn't only overwhelming, it obscures the whole point of the story. As humans, we're all too susceptible to the lure of obscurity, to the desire for darkness where there ought to be light.

In many ways, this is the chief characteristic of modern history. Mankind seems to have accepted Enlightenment ideals en masse, and the result is the non-stop acquisition of knowledge, as though information could shut us off from the eye of a just and jealous God. Evolutionary theory, psychology, existentialism and postmodernism, public education, Communism—all these ideas are intended to put man at a further remove from God.

During the Renaissance, thinkers and artists decided that if man was going to make himself great, he'd have to replicate the glory of the Classical Era, with its enduring artifacts and intellectual produce. Enlightenment thinkers took this one step further, insisting that man could only know what he could deduce using reason alone, and consequently amassing knowledge in order to have a more thorough basis for such reasonable inquiry.

Since then, philosophers and scientists have devoted themselves to interpreting the facts from a purely human perspective, creating a picture of the universe that is mechanistic and godless. Meaning is dead, God is dead, and hope is dead, but the Enlightenment ideal of human progress (repackaged as Darwinian naturalism) is alive and well, the phantom idol of countless millions.

Even a brief survey of the last century would seem to demolish the possibility of any such idea, but it continues to inform nearly every element of our culture, from pop music to public policy debates. Atrocities like the Holocaust, racism in America, abortion, and totalitarian rule in Asian countries are reinterpreted or explained away to fit the overarching rubrik of sustained forward progress.

Christians understand things a bit differently. We aren't pessimists by any means, but we aren't blind optimists, either. God's plan entails one thing: His ultimate glory, and for those who believe His promises and trust Him for salvation, that's the most hopeful doctrine conceivable. At the same time, we also understand that man's efforts cannot be responsible for whatever good befalls us, that "progress" is only a gift of the Most High, and that only through the Holy Spirit is evil overcome by good.

The modern world is increasingly secular. Even in the Church, men and women stray from biblical truth in favor of appealing arguments on behalf of man, substituting a Christ-centered Gospel with one that is primarily focused on mankind and our individual salvation. We must counter these attitudes with God's truth, but we can only do so with an understanding of where those ideas come from and why they've taken root. A thorough study of modern history can and will provide those answers, and teach us how to stand firm in the truth we hold dear.

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Amelia Earhart
Lives to Remember
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Battle of Valcour Bay
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See and Read: Beginning to Read Biography
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Let Freedom Ring
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Weekly Reader Heroes of the Revolution
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Explorers of New Worlds
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Latinos in American History
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How America Became America
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by Isaac Asimov
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Native American Biographies
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Stories of America
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Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land
by Brandon Marie Miller
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Grand Papa and Ellen Aroon
by F. N. Monjo, illustrated by Richard Cuffari
1st edition from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Guise of Every Graceless Heart
by Terrill Irwin Elniff
from Chalcedon / Ross House Books
for Adult
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$5.00
Harriet Tubman
Triangle Histories: The Civil War
by Lisa Halvorsen
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Henry Hudson
Library of Explorers and Exploration
by Josepha Sherman
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Her Story, Her Words
by Frances E. Ruffin
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Hernando de Soto and the Exploration of Florida
by Jim Gallagher
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
How and Why Wonder Book of the Polar Regions
by Irving Robbin, illustrated by Shannon Stirnweis
from Grosset & Dunlap
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
How Men Discovered the World
by Hans R. Hecke, illustrated by Nikolaus Plump, freely translated by Moya Gillespie
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How They Built the Statue of Liberty
by Mary J. Shapiro, illustrated by Huck Scarry
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Hunters Blaze the Trails
by Edith S. McCall
New 1980 Edition from Children's Press
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Hunters Blaze the Trails
by Edith S. McCall
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In 1492
by Jean Marzollo
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
In Their Own Words: World War I
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Isaac Newton and Gravity
by Steve Parker
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Island Far From Home
by John Donahue
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Jacobite Exile
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
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$20.00
James Longstreet
Triangle Histories: The Civil War
by Melanie LeTourneau
from Blackbirch Press
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Jefferson Davis
Triangle Histories: The Civil War
by W. Scott Ingram
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$3.50 (1 in stock)
John and Sebastian Cabot
by Henry Ira Kurtz
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
John Charles Frémont
by Charles W. Maynard
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
John Hancock: A Signature Life
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Joseph E. Johnston
Famous Figures of the Civil War Era
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Journal of One Davey Wyatt
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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$6.00 (2 in stock)
Lewis and Clark Expedition
We the People
by Patricia Ryon Quiri
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$3.50 (1 in stock)
Liberty Bell
Primary Sources of American Symbols
by Jennifer Silate
1st edition from PowerKids Press
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Life During the Russian Revolution
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Lion of the North
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
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$20.00
Magellan
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
Magic of Spices
by E. Joseph Dreany
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$25.00 (1 in stock)
Mao Zedong's China
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Maryland Colony: Lord Baltimore
Building America
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Master George's People
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Mission to Mars
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science Stage 2
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Missionary Patriarch
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Biography for 9th-Adult
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
No Surrender!
by G. A. Henty
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$14.00 (1 in stock)
Ol' Paul the Mighty Logger
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$4.00 (2 in stock)
Orange and Green
by G. A. Henty
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$20.00
Overlord
by Albert Marrin
1st edition from Atheneum
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Paradox of Jamestown (1585-1700)
The Drama of American History
by Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Patrick Henry
by JoAnn A. Grote
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Patrick Henry
The Founding Fathers
by Stuart A. Kallen
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Picture Book of John Hancock
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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A Really Truly Story
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$15.00 (2 in stock)
Pioneer Traders
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Pizarro, Orellana, and the Exploration of the Amazon
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
Plymouth Colony
by Andrew Santella
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Ponce de Leon
by Trish Kline
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Pony Express
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
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Colonial American Craftsmen
by Leonard Everett Fisher
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Quilt-Block History of Pioneer Days
by Mary Cobb, Illustrated by Jan Davey Ellis
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$6.00 (2 in stock)
R My Name is Rachel
by Patricia Reilly Giff
from Random House
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Risking it All
Moments in American History
by Anne Souby
from Steck-Vaughn Company
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Rockets to the Moon
by Erik Bergaust
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
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$25.00 (1 in stock)
Science in Colonial America
by Brendan January
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th grade
in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS)
$7.00 (2 in stock)
Seeds of a Nation - Massachusetts
by Don Nardo
from KidHaven Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$3.50 (2 in stock)
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