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Chronological History

Sometimes we speak of world history as though it belongs to people. It doesn't—it belongs to God, and though people play prominently within the historical narrative, it always remains under God's auspices and control. The problem with losing the right perspective isn't that we'll get the facts wrong, it's that we'll fail to understand what they mean, what the purpose of past events is, and what we can look forward to.

Human history began all at once in the same place: the Garden of Eden, where God made Adam and Eve as the crown of all Creation. He told them to fill the earth and take dominion of it, and He also told them not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. They ate the fruit anyway, and mankind was removed from paradise and introduced to tension, pain, and resistance.

The story of the world is in many ways simply the story of adversity. For the enemies of God, it's adversity in the form of the failure and futility of purely human endeavor; for God's people, it's the story of fighting for the truth against secular philosophies, fighting for holiness despite the pervasiveness of sin, and fighting for the Gospel in the face of persecution and death.

Jesus Christ is our only hope. He is the Prince of Peace, the defeater of Death, and the King of the Universe, the saver of souls and the punisher of wickedness. His kingdom is the restoration and glorious fulfillment of the paradise from which Adam and Eve were removed, and we work, wait, hope and pray for the quick fulfillment of His will in all things.

This is our framework for history. While it's important to study things like the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and the ancient Near East, it's only important when investigated through the lens of God's ultimate sovereignty and plan. The story of mankind is the story of redemption, and only when we analyze battles, kings, treaties, and catastrophes from God's perspective can we truly make sense of them.

Otherwise, it's all fairly irrelevant and useless. Sure, there's Napoleon's dictum that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, but a quick survey of the past will show that each successive generation does repeat the sins of their fathers, and that without Christ's real physical life on Earth as a centering point, there's no real cause for optimism or hope of any kind.

Christ's love not only makes the trajectory of history cause for hope; it reveals the truly great moments of the past, events that to the secular eye seem insignificant or even pernicious. We're speaking of the progress of the true Church, of course, and of each soul that God calls and makes His own through the agency of His Holy Spirit. These are the milestones we look for and celebrate.

We carry a lot of world history products. Because it's the story of God's work in the world and our human responses, we believe it's important to know and understand. Not everything we carry is Christian; there are plenty of secular resources here. We encourage you to use whichever ones work best for your situation, but that you do so with a view to understanding the will and work of the One who made history in the first place.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he is a husband and father, teaches adult Sunday school in his Presbyterian congregation, and likes weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.
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Adventures of Robin Hood
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
by Roger Green, illustrated by Walter Crane
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 5th-9th grade
$20.00
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Lives to Remember
by Burke Davis
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 7th-12th grade
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$14.00 (1 in stock)
Ancient Romans
People of the Ancient World
by Allison Lassieur
from Franklin Watts
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by G. A. Henty
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by R. Conrad Stein
from Children's Press
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from Julian Messner
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Beorn the Proud
by Madeleine Polland, Illustrated by William Stobbs
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Black Ships Before Troy
by Rosemary Sutcliff & Alan Lee
from Frances Lincoln
Greek Mythology for 3rd-8th grade
$22.99
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Land of the Free Series
by Elsie Reif Ziegler, illustrated by Jacob Landau
from John C. Winston
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by G. A. Henty
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Great Journeys
by Milton Meltzer
from Benchmark Books
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
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by Gertrude Hartman
Second Edition from D. C. Heath and Company
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Camels West
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Caxton's Challenge
First American Edition from World Publishing Company
for 7th-10th grade
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City! San Francisco
by George Ancona, Shirley Climo
from Simon and Schuster
for 4th-8th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
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American War Series
by Zachary Kent
from Enslow
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$3.50 (1 in stock)
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American Symbols and their Meanings
by Hal Marcovitz
from Mason Crest Publishers
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in New Nation (1783-1800) (Location: HISA-18NN)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
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by G. A. Henty
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Cross and Crescent
by Richard Suskind, illustrated by Victor Lazzaro
1st edition from W. W. Norton and Co.
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Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
Landmark #66
by Slater Brown
from Random House
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Explorers of the Arctic and Antarctic
by Edward F. Dolan
from Crowell-Collier
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Facing Death
by G. A. Henty
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First Steamboat on the Mississippi
North Star Books #31
by Sterling North
from Houghton Mifflin
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For Name and Fame
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For the Temple
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Friends Though Divided
by G. A. Henty
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Friends Though Divided
by G. A. Henty
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Geronimo: Apache Freedom Fighter
Native American Biographies
by Spring Hermann
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Glassmakers
Colonial American Craftsmen
by Leonard Everett Fisher
from Franklin Watts
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in Colonial America (1690-1765) (Location: HISA-17COL)
Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land
by Brandon Marie Miller
from Lerner Publishing Group
for 5th-8th grade
in Colonial America (1690-1765) (Location: HISA-17COL)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Harriet Tubman
Triangle Histories: The Civil War
by Lisa Halvorsen
from Blackbirch Press
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
History of the World: Early Middle Ages
from Heinemann Educational Books
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$8.50 (1 in stock)
History of the World: Late Middle Ages
by Monica Dombrosio, Roberto Barbieri
from Steck-Vaughn Company
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$8.50 (1 in stock)
Iliad (retold)
by Rosemary Sutcliff & Alan Lee
from Frances Lincoln
Greek Mythology for 3rd-8th grade
In Freedom's Cause
by G. A. Henty
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Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
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In Search of a Homeland
by Penelope Lively & Ian Andrew
from Frances Lincoln
Picture Book/Mythology for 4th-8th grade
In the Reign of Terror
by G. A. Henty
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In the Reign of Terror
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
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Invaders
by Martin Windrow
from ARCO
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in Military & Weapon History (Location: HISV-MILIT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Island Far From Home
by John Donahue
from Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
for 4th-8th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Jacobite Exile
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
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$20.00
Joan of Arc
by Tracy Christopher
from Chelsea House Publishing
for 4th-10th grade
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John and Sebastian Cabot
by Henry Ira Kurtz
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
John Hancock: A Signature Life
by Philip Koslow
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-8th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
John Paul Jones
by Donald E. Worcester, illustrated by Forrest Orr
from Houghton Mifflin
for 4th-8th grade
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Journey to Gold Mountain
by Ronald Takaki, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
from Chelsea House Publishing
for 6th-12th grade
in Immigration & Emigration (Location: HISA-20IM)
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
by Roger Green
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 7th-10th grade
$17.95
Knight of the White Cross
by G. A. Henty
from Preston Speed
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in G. A. Henty Books (Location: FIC-HEN)
Knight of the White Cross
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in G. A. Henty Books (Location: FIC-HEN)
Life During the Russian Revolution
by Victoria Sherrow
from Lucent Press
for 6th-12th grade
in Communism & The Cold War (Location: HISA-20CW)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Life in Lincoln's America
Landmark Giant #8
by Helen Reeder Cross
Chanticleer Press Edition from Random House
for 6th-10th grade
in Landmark Giants (Location: VIN-LAN)
Life in the Time of Pericles and the Ancient Greeks
by Michael Poulton
from Raintree
for 6th-8th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Lion of St. Mark
by G. A. Henty
from Preston Speed
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
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Lion of St. Mark
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in G. A. Henty Books (Location: FIC-HEN)
$20.00
Lion of the North
by G. A. Henty
from Preston Speed
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
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Lion of the North
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in G. A. Henty Books (Location: FIC-HEN)
$20.00
Little Town on the Prairie
Little House Series #7
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
from HarperCollins
Realistic Fiction/Pioneers for 3rd-8th grade
1942 Newbery Honor Book
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Little Women
Dilithium Press Children's Classics
by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
from Dilithium Press, Ltd.
for 4th-8th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
from Longmeadow Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Magellan
by Michael Burgan
from Compass Point Books
for 5th-12th grade
in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Magnificent Mutineers
by Earl Schenck Miers, illustrated by W. T. Mars
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 5th-8th grade
in American Revolution (1765-1783) (Location: HISA-18REV)
Mao Zedong's China
by Kathlyn Gay
from Lerner Publishing Group
for 5th-9th grade
in China (Location: HISMC-CHI)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
March on London
by G. A. Henty
from Preston Speed
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in G. A. Henty Books (Location: FIC-HEN)
March on London
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in G. A. Henty Books (Location: FIC-HEN)
Master George's People
by Marfe Ferguson Delano
from National Geographic
for 5th-9th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Middle Ages
Cambridge Introduction to History
by Trevor Cairns
from Lerner Publishing Group
for 7th-12th grade
in Middle Ages (Location: HISW-MID)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Napoleon
by Manual Komroff
from Julian Messner
for 4th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
No Surrender!
by G. A. Henty
from Preston Speed
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in G. A. Henty Books (Location: FIC-HEN)
No Surrender!
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in G. A. Henty Books (Location: FIC-HEN)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
One of the 28th
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in G. A. Henty Books (Location: FIC-HEN)
Orange and Green
by G. A. Henty
from Preston Speed
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
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Orange and Green
by G. A. Henty
from Robinson Curriculum
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