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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.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and 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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by David McCullough
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
by Chester G. Hearn
from US Naval Institute Press
for 9th-Adult
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
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by C. S. Forester
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea
by Samuel E. Morison
from Atlantic Monthly Press
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Adventures of Buffalo Bill
by Col. William F. Cody
from Harper & Brothers
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Adventures of Captain Bonneville
by Washington Irving, illustrated by Robert Reynolds
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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by Mark Twain
from Reader's Digest
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Great Ages of Man
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Air Forces of the World
by Sue Butterworth, editor
from Chartwell Books
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$18.00 (1 in stock)
Aku-Aku
by Thor Heyerdahl
from International Collectors Library
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Aku-Aku
by Thor Heyerdahl
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Album of Memories
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from Random House
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
Album of the Civil War
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from Franklin Watts
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
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Amazing Mr. Doolittle
by Quentin Reynolds
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America Grows Up
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by Gerald W. Johnson, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
from William Morrow & Company
for 7th-12th grade
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America in the Air War
by Edward Jablonski
from Time-Life Books
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America's Heroes
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American Caesar
by William Manchester
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American Fairy Tales
1st edition from Hyperion Books for Children
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American Heritage History of the American Revolution
by Bruce Lancaster
from American Heritage Publishing Co.
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
American Heritage History of the Indian Wars
by Robert M. Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn
Revised from American Heritage Publishing Co.
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
American Spirit
from LIFE Books
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Andersonville
by MacKinlay Kantor
from World Publishing Company
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1955 Pulitzer Prize Winner
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from W. W. Norton and Co.
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Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant
from W. W. Norton and Co.
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by Harriet Beecher Stowe
from Paul S. Eriksson, INC.
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Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Apollo on the Moon
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Apostle of Liberty
by Stephen McDowell
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Army of the Potomac - 3 Volumes
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
World's Greatest Literature
by Benjamin Franklin
from Spencer Press
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini
from International Collectors Library
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$11.50 (1 in stock)
B. Franklin, Printer
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from Holiday House
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$8.00 (2 in stock)
Bach: His Life and Times
by Tim Dowley
1st edition from Hippocrene Books
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Battle for the Falklands
by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins
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Battle from the Start
by Brian Steel Wills
from HarperCollins
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Battle of Austerlitz
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from Reader's Digest
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Berliners
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from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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$21.99
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Black Man in America
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
Blow Ye Winds Westerly
by Elizabeth Gemming
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Bombs and Blessings
by Retha Hazel Eldridge
from Review and Herald Publishing Association
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Book of Marvels: Marvels of the Occident
from Living Book Press
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$27.99
Book of Marvels: Marvels of the Orient
by Richard Halliburton
from Living Book Press
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$27.99
Boys in the Boat
by Daniel James Brown
from Viking Press
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Brave Men
by Ernie Pyle
from Grosset & Dunlap
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Brave Men
by Ernie Pyle
7th printing, 1945 from Henry Holt and Company
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Bret Harte: Stories of the Early West
by Bret Harte
from Platt and Munk Publishers
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Buffalo Bill's Life Story
by William F. Cody, Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
1966 printing from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Buffalo Coat
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C. S. Lewis: A Life
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from Tyndale House
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Call of Duty
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Captain Cook
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by George Grant
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Carver: A Life in Poems
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2002 Newbery Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Award
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$16.95
Centennial History of the Civil War - 3 Volumes
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from Doubleday & Company
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Century
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
Cheer the Lonesome Traveller
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Chickamauga
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Chief Joseph Country
by Bill Gulick
from Caxton Press
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Christopher Columbus
by Samuel Eliot Morison
from Dorset Press
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Civil War Battles
by Curt Johnson
1st edition from Crescent Books
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Civil War: 1861-1865
by David E. Roth
from Zigzag
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Codfish Musket
by Agnes Hewes, illustrated by Armstrong Sperry
from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc.
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1937 Newbery Honor Book
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$45.00 (1 in stock)
Colonial Entrepreneur
by Olivia Coolidge, edited by Danny Smith
from Tilbury House Publishing
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Colonizing the Planets and Stars
by Isaac Asimov
from Gareth Stevens Publishing
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Comes the Comrade!
by Alexandra Orme, translated from the Polish by M.A. Michael and L. Meyer
from William Morrow & Company
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in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Commodore Hornblower
by C. S. Forester
1st edition from Little, Brown & Company
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
from Pantheon Books
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Constitution of the United States of America
by Founding Fathers
from Applewood Books
Primary Source Documents for 9th-Adult
in 18th Century Literature (Location: LIT5-18)
$9.95
Cortez & the Conquest of Mexico
by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
from William R. Scott Inc.
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in 17th Century Literature (Location: LIT4-17)
D-Day: Operation Overlord
from Smithmark Publishers
for 8th-Adult
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Daughter of the Seine
by Jeanette Eaton
from Harper & Brothers
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1930 Newbery Honor Book
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Declaration of Independence with Short Biographies of its Signers
by Thomas Jefferson
from Applewood Books
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Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
from International Collectors Library
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Doctor Dogbody's Leg
by James Norman Hall, illustrated by Warren Chappell
from Little, Brown & Company
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Early American Literature
from Perfection Learning
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in American Literature Curriculum (Location: LITCUR-AM)
$12.00 (2 in stock)
Early Days in Old Oregon
by Katharine B. Judson
from Binford & Mort Publishing
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Early Days of a Cowboy on the Pecos
by James F. Hinkle
from Unknown Publisher
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$3.50 (1 in stock)
Easy Company Soldier
by Sgt. Don Malarkey
from St. Martin's Press
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$17.50
Edwardian Lady
by Ina Taylor
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
Elizabeth the Great
by Elizabeth Jenkins
from International Collectors Library
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Empires Lost and Won
by Albert Marrin
1st edition from Atheneum
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in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
End of the Roaring Twenties
by Bill Severn
from Julian Messner
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Endurance
by Caroline Alexander
1st edition from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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in 20th Century Exploration (Location: HISW-20EXP)
$12.00 (2 in stock)
Escape from Corregidor
by Edward D. Whitcomb
from Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Everything Sad Is Untrue
by Daniel Nayeri
from Levine Querido
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$18.99
Explorers of the Pacific
by A. Grove Day
from Duell, Sloan and Pearce
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Faery Lands of the South Seas
by James Norman Hall and Charles Bernard Nordhoff, illustrated by George A. Picken
from Harper & Brothers
for 10th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Family Romanov
by Candace Fleming
from Anne Schwartz Books
for 7th-12th grade
2015 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
in Russia (Location: HISMC-RUS)
$19.99
Ferdinand and Isabella
by William Hickling Prescott
from Heritage Press
Biography for 9th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Fighting the Flying Circus
by Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker
1965 Edition from Doubleday & Company
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in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Forgotten Founding Father
Leaders in Action Series
by Stephen Mansfield
from Cumberland House
Biography for 9th-12th grade
in Leaders in Action (Location: BIO-LIA)
$16.95 $10.00 (2 in stock)
Four Wagons West
by Robert Frye Watt
from Binford & Mort Publishing
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