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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.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he is a husband and father, teaches adult Sunday school in his Presbyterian congregation, and likes 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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1,001 Things Everyone Should Know About American History
by John A. Garraty
1st edition from Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
1776
by David McCullough
1st edition from Simon and Schuster
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
by Chester G. Hearn
from US Naval Institute Press
for 9th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Admiral of the Ocean Sea
by Samuel E. Morison
from Atlantic Monthly Press
for 9th-Adult
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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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$12.00 (1 in stock)
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by Mark Twain
from Reader's Digest
Realistic Fiction for 7th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Age of Exploration
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by John R. Hale
from Time-Life Books
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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)
Album of Memories
by Tom Brokaw
from Random House
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in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Album of the Civil War
by William Loren Katz
from Franklin Watts
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by Erich Maria Remarque
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Amazing Mr. Doolittle
by Quentin Reynolds
from Appleton-Century-Crofts
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
America and Its People
by Laureat Bernard,Ralph Brande, Don Sharkey
from W. H. Sadlier
for 9th-12th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
America Grows Up
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by Gerald W. Johnson, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
from William Morrow & Company
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America in the Air War
by Edward Jablonski
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
American Caesar
by William Manchester
from Little, Brown & Company
for 10th grade-adult
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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
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
American Indian Dances
by John L. Squires & Robert E. McLean
from The Ronald Press Co.
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
American Story
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Andersonville
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from World Publishing Company
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1955 Pulitzer Prize Winner
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
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by Henry Louis Gates & Maria Tatar
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by Mark Twain
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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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by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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)
B. Franklin, Printer
by David A. Adler
from Holiday House
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$8.00 (2 in stock)
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by Brian Steel Wills
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Beards' New Basic History of the United States
by Charles A. Beard, Mary R. Beard, and William Beard
from Doubleday & Company
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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by Roscoe Sheller
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from Cumberland House
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Big Burn
by Timothy Egan
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Black Man in America
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
Blow Ye Winds Westerly
by Elizabeth Gemming
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by Retha Hazel Eldridge
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Boston
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from Viking Press
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by Ernie Pyle
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Brave Men
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1966 printing from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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$20.00
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by George Grant
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Biography for 9th-Adult
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
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by Bruce Catton
from Doubleday & Company
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Character for Life
by Don Hawkinson
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in America's Christian Heritage (Location: HISA-CH)
$18.00 (1 in stock)
Cheer the Lonesome Traveller
by Leslie Alexander Lacy, illustrated by James Barkley
from Dial Press
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Chickamauga
by Horace Porter
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Chief Joseph Country
by Bill Gulick
from Caxton Press
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Christian Life and Character of the Civil United States
by Benjamin F. Morris
from American Vision Press
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$35.00 (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
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1937 Newbery Honor Book
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Colonial Entrepreneur
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from Tilbury House Publishing
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Comes the Comrade!
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by Founding Fathers
from Applewood Books
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$9.95
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by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
from William R. Scott Inc.
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by John Bierhorst
from Four Winds Press
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Walter Wangerin Jr.
from Simon & Schuster Macmillan
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
D-Day: Operation Overlord
from Smithmark Publishers
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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)
Early American Literature
from Perfection Learning
for 8th-12th grade
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
Empires Lost and Won
by Albert Marrin
1st edition from Atheneum
for 5th-12th grade
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$14.00 (1 in stock)
End of the Roaring Twenties
by Bill Severn
from Julian Messner
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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
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by A. Grove Day
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by William Hickling Prescott
from Heritage Press
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Fighting Indian Warriors
by E. A. Brininstool
from Stackpole Books
for 9th-12th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Fighting the Flying Circus
by Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker
1965 Edition from Doubleday & Company
for 9th-Adult
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First Houses: Native American Homes and Sacred Structures
by Jean Guard Monroe, Ray A. Williamson, illustrated by Susan Johnston Carlson
from Houghton Mifflin
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Flag Book of the United States
by Whitney Smith
Revised Edition from William Morrow & Company
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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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Frederick Douglass In His Own Words
from Harcourt, Brace & Company
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
From Flappers to Flivvers...
from Reminisce Books
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
from Franklin Library
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George Washington
by M. D. Holmes
from John C. Winston
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George Washington Carver: An American Biography
by Rackham Holt
from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc.
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George Whitefield: Wayfaring Witness
by Stuart C. Henry
from Abingdon Press
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
Germinal
by Emile Zola
from Heritage Press
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Gettysburg: Battle & Battlefield
by W. C. Storrick
from Barnes & Noble
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Give Me Liberty
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by David Vaughan
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Biography for 9th-Adult
in Leaders in Action (Location: BIO-LIA)
$17.95 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Glory and the Dream - Volume 1
by William Manchester
from Little, Brown & Company
for 10th grade-adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
Glory and the Dream - Volume 2
by William Manchester
from Little, Brown & Company
for 10th grade-adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
God and Ronald Reagan
by Paul Kengor
from Harper Perennial
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Gold, Guns, and Ghost Towns
from Stanford University Press
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Good Shepherd
by C.S. Forester
from Little, Brown & Company
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