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What should we say about the United States of America? So much has already been said, adding our two cents is a bit redundant or presumptuous, depending on your perspective. Certainly, no one needs us to outline the facts, the major events and figures, or to describe our unique written Constitution and democratic-republican system.

We can offer a bit of perspective. It's nothing new, nothing we came up with on our own, but it is different from a lot of the prevailing notions about both history in general and our nation in particular.

For starters, there's no specific reference to the U.S. in the Bible. The principles found in God's Word that apply to all nations certainly apply to the United States as well, but we aren't a Christian nation, we don't hold a special place in biblical prophecy, and Manifest Destiny is the result of Enlightenment rationalist views about the Progress of Mankind rather than being rooted in any kind of Christian attitude.

That said, many of the first settlers of the New World were dedicated Christians seeking the right to worship God without the constraints of political entanglement or government-imposed strictures and doctrine. The Pilgrims came in 1620, just 13 years after the first successful English settlement at Jamestown, and the Puritan settlers followed soon after.

Their arrivals and colonization didn't make America Christian, of course. It was a broad continent, largely unknown, and the initial colonies weren't strictly bound together at first, as they were later to become. By that time, things had become substantially more secular, so that by the 18th century many Americans were just as degenerate as their European counterparts. Fortunately, men like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield were around to preach the true Gospel, and to initiate a revival known as the Great Awakening.

Secular forces were still at work, though. While there were definitely many Christians involved, the American Revolution was largely the result of Enlightenment philosophizing, and men were convinced that America could produce a virtuous and stable population if education and participatory government were enforced. So they rebelled against England, and the United States republic was formed.

Ever since, groups and individuals have tried to call Americans back to their Christian roots. That's the wrong strategy: we don't need to call anyone back to anything, we need to point the way forward to the pursuit of Christ and the bringing of His Gospel and glory to every corner of the earth no matter what our country of origin. That America has been so materially blessed simply means we have more options at our disposal for proclaiming and bringing the Word to the rest of the world.

Our study of United States history is consequently Christ-centered. Not because we think America is more Christian than other countries, but because it (like all other nations) is under Christ's control as King of Heaven and Lord of Time. Of course, you shouldn't abandon study of the facts, people and events, but they only attain true meaning when viewed through the lens of Christ's ultimate plan of redemption and self-glorification.

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1776
by David McCullough
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Abraham Lincoln's World
by Genevieve Foster, expanded by Joanna Foster
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
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America and Vietnam
by Albert Marrin
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And There Was Light
by Jacques Lusseyran
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Band of Brothers
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25th anniversary from Simon and Schuster
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$16.99
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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Betty Before X
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1952 Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Call to Conscience
by Martin Luther King, Jr., Edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard
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$16.00
Captain, My Captain
by Deborah Meroff
from Inheritance Publications
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Charis in the World of Wonders
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Churchill
by Paul Johnson
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Citizen Soldiers
by Stephen Ambrose
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Civil War: A Narrative - 3 Volume Set
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Code Name Verity
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Colonial Experience
A Basic History of the United States Volume 1
by Clarence B. Carson
from American Textbook Committee
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Debunking Howard Zinn
by Mary Grabar
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Discoverers
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$22.10
Evidence Not Seen
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$9.34
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by A. S. Peterson
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$14.44
First Voyage to America
by Christopher Columbus
from Dover Publications
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by Christopher Columbus
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George Washington's World
by Genevieve Foster, expanded by Joanna Foster and edited by Rea Berg
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History Reference/Biography for 7th-10th grade
1942 Newbery Honor Book
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$19.95
George Whitefield
by Arnold A. Dallimore
from Crossway Books
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God and Ronald Reagan
by Paul Kengor
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God's Samurai
by Gordon Prange, with Donald Goldstein & Katherine Dillon
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$18.66
Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
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by John Steinbeck
from Penguin Books
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$21.00
Great Crash: 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith
from Mariner Books
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$14.44
Great Escape
by Paul Brickhill
Reissue from W. W. Norton and Co.
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$14.41
Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Growth of America
A Basic History of the United States Volume 4
by Clarence B. Carson
from American Textbook Committee
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$19.00
Guadalcanal Diary
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Modern library pbk. ed from Modern Library
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$25.00
Helen Keller: The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
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Hiding Place
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35th Anniversary Edition from Chosen Books
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Higher Call
by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander
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Hitch
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Hitler
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If The South Had Won The Civil War
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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Jonathan Edwards
by Stephen J. Nichols
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Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca
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Journey Through the Night
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from Inheritance Publications
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Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
50th Anniversary from Ballantine Books
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Laddie
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Romance for 7th-10th grade
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Land of Hope
by Wilfred M. McClay
from Encounter Books
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Last Battle
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Last Bookshop in London
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography
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Life and Diary of David Brainerd
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Life of George Washington
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Life of J.E.B. Stuart
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from Dover Publications
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Life of Washington
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from Master Books
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$12.74
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Longest Day
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$18.99
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by Emma Gelders Sterne
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Mayflower Pilgrims
by Edmund J. Carpenter
2nd edition from Christian Liberty Press
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$9.99
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler, translated by Michael Ford
from Elite Minds, Inc.
Autobiography for 9th-Adult
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$29.95
Memoirs of the Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill, abridged by Denis Kelly
from HarperCollins
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$22.09
Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
from Yearling
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2011 Newbery Medal Winner
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$7.64
Mornings on Horseback
by David McCullough
1st edition from Simon & Schuster Macmillan
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National; Book Award
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West
by LeRoy R. Hafen & Harvey L. Carter
from University of Nebraska
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My Own Lightning
by Lauren Wolk
from Dutton Children's Books
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$7.64
Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee
by David Crockett
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$14.41 $6.80 (1 in stock)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Copper Lodge Library
by Frederick Douglass, annotated by Stephanie B. Meter
from Classical Conversations
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$12.00
National Parks of the USA
by Kate Siber, Illustrated by Chris Turnham
from Wide Eyed Editions
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$12.74
Naval War of 1812
by Theodore Roosevelt
from Random House
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$13.56
Night
by Elie Wiesel
Revised from Hill & Wang
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$13.00 $4.00 (9 in stock)
Ocean-Born Mary
by Lois Lenski
1st Edition Thus from Purple House Press
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$15.29
One Big Open Sky
by Lesa Cline-Ransome
from Holiday House
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2025 Newbery Honor Book
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$7.64
Oregon Trail
Penguin Classics
by Francis Parkman Jr.
from Penguin Classics
Historical Non-fiction for 10th-Adult
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$17.00
Patriot's History of the United States
by Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen
from Sentinel
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$27.20
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Penguin Classics
by Ulysses S. Grant
from Penguin Classics
Autobiography for 10th-Adult
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$19.00
Pioneers
Leatherstocking Tales #4
by James Fenimore Cooper
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$18.70
Princess Ka'iulani
by Sharon Linnea
from Eerdmans
Biography for 7th-Adult
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$10.50
Rabble in Arms
by Kenneth Roberts
from Down East Books
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$18.95
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
by Theodore Roosevelt
from University of Nebraska
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$16.11
Robert E. Lee the Christian
by William J. Johnstone
2nd edition from Christian Liberty Press
Biography for 9th-Adult
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$12.33
Rose Under Fire
by Elizabeth Wein
from Little, Brown & Company
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$9.34
Rough Riders
by Theodore Roosevelt
from Dover Publications
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$7.61
Scarlet Letter
Dover Thrift Editions
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
from Ignatius Press
Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult
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$8.95
Sections and the Civil War
A Basic History of the United States Volume 3
by Clarence B. Carson
from American Textbook Committee
American History Reference for 9th-Adult
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$17.00
Self-Reliance and Essays on the Nature of Man
Copper Lodge Library
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, annotated by Stephanie B. Meter
from Classical Conversations
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$14.00
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