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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
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
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by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
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Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt
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Amazing Grace
by Eric Metaxas
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$15.99
America: From Gridlock to Deadlock
A Basic History of the United States Volume 6
by Clarence B. Carson
from American Textbook Committee
American History Reference for 9th-Adult
in Basic History of the United States (Location: HISCUR-US)
$19.00
And There Was Light
by Jacques Lusseyran
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Christian Renegades Series
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Autobiography of George Muller
by George Muller
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Band of Brothers
by Stephen Ambrose, Foreword by Tom Hanks
25th anniversary from Simon and Schuster
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$18.99
Battle Cry of Freedom
Oxford History of the United States
by James M. McPherson
from Oxford University
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$24.95
Beat to Quarters
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by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
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Beginning of the Republic
A Basic History of the United States Volume 2
by Clarence B. Carson
from American Textbook Committee
American History Reference for 9th-Adult
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$17.00
Betty Before X
by Ilyasah Shabazz with Renee Watson
from Square Fish Publishing
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$8.99
Birth of the Modern
by Paul Johnson
from HarperCollins
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$12.00
Bonhoeffer
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Revised and Updated from Thomas Nelson Publishers
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$24.99
Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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Brendan Voyage
Modern Library Exploration
by Tim Severin
from Modern Library
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$19.00
Bridge to the Sun
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from Rock Creek Books
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Brit. Lit. Volume 9
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by Bruce Olson
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by Bruce Olson
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by Deborah Alcock
from Inheritance Publications
Historical Fiction for 9th-12th grade
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$14.95
Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk
from Back Bay Books
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1952 Pulitzer Prize Winner
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$18.99
Call to Conscience
by Martin Luther King, Jr., Edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard
from Grand Central Publishing
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$16.00
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
50th Anniversary Edition from Simon and Schuster
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$18.99
Chance to Die
by Elisabeth Elliot
from Revell Publishing
Biography for 8th-12th grade
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$22.99
Charis in the World of Wonders
by Marly Youmans
from Ignatius Press
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$17.95
Churchill
by Paul Johnson
Reprint from Penguin Putnam
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$17.00
Citizen Soldiers
by Stephen Ambrose
from Simon and Schuster
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$20.99
Civil War: A Narrative - 3 Volume Set
by Shelby Foote
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$88.00
Co. Aytch
by Sam Watkins
from Touchstone
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$17.00
Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
from Hyperion/Madison Press
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in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$10.99
Colonial Experience
A Basic History of the United States Volume 1
by Clarence B. Carson
from American Textbook Committee
American History Reference for 9th-Adult
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$17.00
Commodore Hornblower
Hornblower Series #9
by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
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Communist Manifesto
Penguin Classics
by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
from Penguin Classics
Political Philosophy for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$8.00
Daisy Chain
by Charlotte Yonge
from Beautiful Feet Books
Realistic Fiction for 9th-12th grade
in Morality Tales (Location: FIC-WH05)
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Defender of the Faith
William and Mary Trilogy Volume 2
by Marjorie Bowen
from Inheritance Publications
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Democracy in America
Penguin Classics
by Alexis De Tocqueville
from Penguin Classics
American Government for 11th-12th grade
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$15.00
Democracy in America
by Alexis De Tocqueville
from Harper Perennial
American Government for 11th-12th grade
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$22.99
Discoverers
by Daniel J. Boorstin
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$22.00
Doctor Adrian
Reformation Trail Series #13
by Deborah Alcock
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$15.95
Doomed Queen Anne
A Young Royals Book
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$11.99
Endurance
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Evidence Not Seen
by Darlene Deibler Rose
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Faithful Spy
by John Hendrix
from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
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$18.99
Farewell to Manzanar
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
from Houghton Mifflin
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$10.99
First Voyage to America
by Christopher Columbus
from Dover Publications
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$9.95
Flying Colours
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by C. S. Forester
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For God and the King
William and Mary Trilogy Volume 3
by Marjorie Bowen
from Inheritance Publications
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Four Voyages
by Christopher Columbus
from Penguin Classics
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$17.00
Francis Schaeffer
by Bruce Little, ed.
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$12.99
George Whitefield
by Arnold A. Dallimore
from Crossway Books
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$14.50
God and Ronald Reagan
by Paul Kengor
Reprint from Harper Perennial
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$17.99
God's Samurai
by Gordon Prange, with Donald Goldstein & Katherine Dillon
from Potomoc Books
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$21.95
God's Smuggler
by Brother Andrew
from Chosen Books
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$16.99
Governor of England
by Marjorie Bowen
from Inheritance Publications
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Great Adventurers of the Twentieth Century
by Ron Tagliapietra
from Bob Jones University Press
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Great Bridge
by David McCullough
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Great Crash: 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith
from Mariner Books
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Great Escape
by Paul Brickhill
Reissue from W. W. Norton and Co.
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$16.95
Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reissue from Charles Scribner's Sons
Realistic Fiction for 9th-12th grade
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$17.00
Growth of America
A Basic History of the United States Volume 4
by Clarence B. Carson
from American Textbook Committee
American History Reference for 9th-Adult
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$19.00
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
from Sun Dial Press
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$17.00
Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
from Ballantine Books
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$8.99
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Reissue from Penguin Classics
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$9.00
Heavenly Man
by Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway
from Monarch Books
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History of King Charles II of England
by Jacob Abbott
from Serenity Publishers
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$10.99
History of the Twentieth Century
by Martin Gilbert
Reprint from William Morrow & Company
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$23.99
Hitch
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from Harcourt
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Hornblower and the Atropos
Hornblower Series #5
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from Little, Brown & Company
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
Hornblower Series #3
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from Little, Brown & Company
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Hornblower During the Crisis
Hornblower Series #4
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from Little, Brown & Company
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Hudson Taylor
by Vance Christie
from P&R Publishing
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$14.99
I Must Betray You
by Ruta Sepetys
from Philomel Books
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$12.99
I Will Maintain
William and Mary Trilogy Volume 1
by Marjorie Bowen
from Inheritance Publications
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If The South Had Won The Civil War
by MacKinlay Kantor
from Forge
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$15.99
In the Land of the Blue Burqas
by Kate McCord
from Moody Press
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$15.99
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs
from Dover Publications
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John Buchan
by Andrew Lownie, David R. Godine
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$15.00
Jonathan Edwards
by Stephen J. Nichols
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Biography for 9th-Adult
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$16.99
Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca
Dover editions
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
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$10.95
Jungle Pilot
by Russell Hitt
from Discovery House Publishers
Biography for 10th-Adult
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$16.99
Language of Flowers
by Kate Greenaway
from Dover Publications
for all ages
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$6.95
Last Battle
by Cornelius Ryan
Reprint from Simon and Schuster
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$20.00
Last Bookshop in London
by Madeline Martin
from Hanover Square Press
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$16.99
Last of the Mohicans
Leatherstocking Tales #2
by James Fenimore Cooper
Reprint from Penguin Classics
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$13.00
Les Miserables
Modern Library
by Victor Hugo, translated by Julie Rose
from Modern Library
Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$20.00
Leviathan
Penguin Classics
by Thomas Hobbes
from Penguin Classics
Political Philosophy for 11th-Adult
in 17th Century Literature (Location: LIT4-17)
$13.00
Lieutenant Hornblower
Hornblower Series #2
by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
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$16.99 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Life and Diary of David Brainerd
by David Brainerd
from Baker Books
Biography for 10th-Adult
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$17.00 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Little House Coloring Book
Clr Csm from HarperCollins
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$18.99
Little Women
by Lousia May Alcott
from Penguin Putnam
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$10.00
Longest Day
by Cornelius Ryan
from Touchstone
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$18.99
Lord Hornblower
Hornblower Series #10
by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
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Lovely War
by Julie Berry
from Penguin Books
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$12.99
Lysbeth
by H. Rider Haggard
from Christian Liberty Press
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$16.75 $9.00 (2 in stock)
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler, translated by Michael Ford
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Autobiography for 9th-Adult
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$29.95
Memoirs of the Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill, abridged by Denis Kelly
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