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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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1776
by David McCullough
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1776
by David McCullough
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1846 - Portrait of the Nation
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20th Century Wars
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9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
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Abraham Lincoln: The Man & His Faith
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea
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Adventures of Buffalo Bill
by Col. William F. Cody
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Adventures of Captain Bonneville
by Washington Irving, illustrated by Robert Reynolds
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Adventures of Davy Crockett
by David Crockett, illustrated by John W. Thomason
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Age of Fighting Sail
by C. S. Forester
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American Naval History for 8th-Adult
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Age of Religious Wars
by Richard S. Dunn
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Air Forces of the World
by Sue Butterworth, editor
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Album of Memories
by Tom Brokaw
from Random House
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Album of the Civil War
by William Loren Katz
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Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
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America in the Air War
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America's Heroes
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America's Longest War
by George C. Herring
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American Civil War
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American Dream
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
American Heritage History of the American Revolution
by Bruce Lancaster
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
American Heritage History of the Indian Wars
by Robert M. Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn
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American Revolutionaries
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American Spirit
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American Waterways: Canal Days
by Jeanne Munn Bracken, ed.
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$5.50 (1 in stock)
And the Word Came With Power
by Joanne Shetler, Patricia Purvis
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$8.50 (2 in stock)
Andersonville
by MacKinlay Kantor
from World Publishing Company
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1955 Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Anne Bradstreet
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Biography for 10th-Adult
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Are We to Be a Nation?
by Richard B. Bernstein, with Kym S. Rice
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Dover Thrift Editions
by Benjamin Franklin
from Dover Publications
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
World's Greatest Literature
by Benjamin Franklin
from Spencer Press
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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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B. Franklin, Printer
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Battle of Austerlitz
by Trevor Dupuy
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by C. S. Forester
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Beau Geste
by Percival Christopher Wren
from Reader's Digest
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Beyond Stateliest Marble
Leaders in Action Series
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Big Burn
by Timothy Egan
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulge
by John S. D. Eisenhower
1st edition from Da Capo Press
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
Black Man in America
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
Black Odyssey
by Mary Cable
from Penguin Classics
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Blow Ye Winds Westerly
by Elizabeth Gemming
1st edition from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Bombs and Blessings
by Retha Hazel Eldridge
from Review and Herald Publishing Association
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Born to Run
by Christopher McDougall
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Brave Men
by Ernie Pyle
from Grosset & Dunlap
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Bret Harte: Stories of the Early West
by Bret Harte
from Platt and Munk Publishers
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Bridge to the Sun
by Gwen Terasaki
from Rock Creek Books
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Bruchko
by Bruce Olson
Updated from Charisma House
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Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle
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Building a City On a Hill
To Pledge Allegiance #2
by Gary DeMar, Fred Douglas Young & Gary L. Todd
from American Vision Press
World History Reference for 8th-11th grade
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$22.00 (2 in stock)
C. S. Lewis: A Life
by Alister McGrath
from Tyndale House
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Call of Duty
Leaders in Action Series
by Steve Wilkins
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Captain Dreyfus
by Nicholas Halasz
from Grove Press, Inc.
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Carry a Big Stick
Leaders in Action Series
by George Grant
from Cumberland House
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Century
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
Cheer the Lonesome Traveller
by Leslie Alexander Lacy, illustrated by James Barkley
from Dial Press
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Chickamauga
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
China Cry
by Nora Lam with Richard Schneider
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
Christopher Columbus
by Samuel Eliot Morison
from Dorset Press
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Christopher Columbus and His Legacy
Opposing Viewpoints Series
by Mary Ellen Jones, Editor
from Greenhaven Press
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$7.00 (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 Songbook
from Dover Publications
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Civil War: 1861-1865
by David E. Roth
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Civil War: A History
by Harry Hansen, Introduction by Richard S. Wheeler, Foreword by Gary Gallagher
from New American Library
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$5.00 (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)
Cold War
Opposing Viewpoints in World History
by Louise I. Gerdes
from Greenhaven Press
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Colonial Period: 1607-1750
American History by Era Volume 2
by Brenda Stalcup (editor)
from Greenhaven Press
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$11.00 (1 in stock)
Colonial Triangular Trade: An Economy Based on Human Misery
by Phyllis Raybin Emert, ed.
from History Compass
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$5.50 (1 in stock)
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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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Commodore Hornblower
Hornblower Series #9
by C. S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
Nautical fiction for 10th-Adult
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Commodore Hornblower
by C. S. Forester
1st edition from Little, Brown & Company
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Communist Manifesto
Penguin Classics
by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
from Penguin Classics
Political Philosophy for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
from Pantheon Books
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Confederate War
by Gary W. Gallagher
from Harvard University Press
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Cut & Assemble the Mayflower
by A. G. Smith
2020 Reprint from Dover Publications
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Daily Life in Johnson's London
by Richard B. Schwartz
1st edition
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
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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Dark Venture
by Audrey White Beyer, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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$14.00 (1 in stock)
Defeating the Totalitarian Lie
by Hilmar Von Campe
from HighWay
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in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Defender of the Faith
William and Mary Trilogy Volume 2
by Marjorie Bowen
from Inheritance Publications
Historical fiction for 9th-12th grade
in Inheritance Fiction (Location: FIC-WH03)
$13.95 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Design Line: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
by Chris Oxlade, Edited by Jenny Broom, Illustrated by Mike Lemanski
from Candlewick Press
for 2nd-Adult
in Oversized Science Books (Location: SCI-OVER)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Devil in Massachusetts
by Marion L. Starkey
from Anchor Books
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Diary of a Napoleanic Foot Soldier
by Jakob Walter
from Penguin Putnam
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War
for 7th-12th grade
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$9.50 (1 in stock)
Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
from International Collectors Library
for 9th-Adult
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
from Anchor Books
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
from Bantam Books
Biography for 7th-Adult
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Draw the Titanic
by Andrew Staiano, illustrated by Jason Pederson
from Scholastic Inc.
for All ages
in Drawing for Beginners (Location: ELE-ARTDRAW)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Dream of Freedom
for 7th-12th grade
in Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) (Location: HISA-20CIV)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Early American Literature
from Perfection Learning
for 8th-12th grade
in American Literature Curriculum (Location: LITCUR-AM)
$12.00 (2 in stock)
Early Days of a Cowboy on the Pecos
by James F. Hinkle
from Unknown Publisher
for 7th-12th grade
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$3.50 (1 in stock)
Edwardian Lady
by Ina Taylor
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 9th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$16.00 (1 in stock)
Elizabeth I
Jackdaw No. 53
from Jackdaw Publications
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in Renaissance & Reformation (Location: HISW-REN)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
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