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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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1955 Pulitzer Prize Winner
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by Sister Blandina Segale
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Battle from the Start
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Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
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Beechcraft: Pursuit of Perfection
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Behind the Scenes
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Better a Shield Than a Sword
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from Free Press
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Big Annie of Calumet
by Jerry Stanley
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Big Golden Book of Christopher Columbus and Other Early Adventurers
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Black Man in America
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2001 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Blockade Runners and Ironclads
by Wallace B. Black
from Franklin Watts
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Blue and the Gray
by Thomas B. Allen, Photography by Sam Abell
from National Geographic
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Boy Who Loved Math
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$4.80 (1 in stock)
Brave Men
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from Grosset & Dunlap
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
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for Adult
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Bull Run
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Historical Fiction for 4th-7th grade
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Burma Surgeon
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from W. W. Norton and Co.
for Adult
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$4.80 (1 in stock)
Caleb's Choice
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$3.20 (1 in stock)
California Gold Days
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1961 Printing from California State Department of Education
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Captain Cook R. N. the Resolute Mariner
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from Oregon Historical Society Press
Museum Exhibition Catalog for Adult
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Captive
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Hans Christian Anderson Award
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Captured!
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1st edition from Christian Herald Books
for Adult
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$3.20 (1 in stock)
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham, illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II
from Houghton Mifflin
Biography for 5th-9th grade
1956 Newbery Medal winner
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
Cassie's Journey
by Brett Harvey; illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray
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$4.00 (2 in stock)
Century
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
Charles A. Lindbergh
by James Cross Giblin
from Clarion Books
Biography for 5th-8th grade
1998 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
by Andrea Warren
from Houghton Mifflin
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$6.40 (1 in stock)
Cheer the Lonesome Traveller
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from Dial Press
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Chickamauga
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from Konecky & Konecky
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Chief Joseph Country
by Bill Gulick
3rd Printing 1994 from Caxton Press
for 8th-Adult
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$20.00 (1 in stock)
Child Star
by Lydia Weaver
from Viking Press
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in Great Depression (1929-1939) (Location: HISA-20GD)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Children of the Wild West
by Russell Freedman
from Clarion Books
for 4th-8th grade
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Choices, Changes
by Joni Eareckson Tada
from Zondervan
Biography for Adult
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$3.20 (1 in stock)
Christopher Columbus
by Elaine Murray Stone
500 Anv from Tyndale House
Biography for Preschool-3rd Grade
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$5.20 (1 in stock)
Christopher Columbus
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from Mott Media
for 4th-6th grade
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Christopher Columbus and His Brothers
by Amy Hogeboom
from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
for 3rd-6th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Civil War Battles
by Curt Johnson
1st edition from Crescent Books
for 7th-12th grade
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Clara Barton: Amazing Civil War Nurse
Amazing Americans
by Mary Dodson Wade
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Clive Staples Lewis
by William Griffin
from Harper & Row
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$9.60 (1 in stock)
Cloud Over Hiroshima
by Burt Hirschfeld, jacket & maps by Barry Martin
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$25.00 (1 in stock)
Coast Mappers
by Taylor Morrison
from Walter Lorraine Books
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Codfish Musket
by Agnes Hewes, illustrated by Armstrong Sperry
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for 8th-12th grade
1937 Newbery Honor Book
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$45.00 (1 in stock)
Colonial American Home Life
by John F. Warner
from Franklin Watts
for 6th-10th grade
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$4.00 (2 in stock)
Colonial Governor
by J.G.E. Hopkins, illustrated by William Wilson
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$9.60 (1 in stock)
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