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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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American War Series
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Claim to the Wilderness
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from Chelsea House Publishing
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
From Sea to Shining Sea: Americans Move West 1846-1860
How America Became America
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
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$5.50 (1 in stock)
Grand Papa and Ellen Aroon
by F. N. Monjo, illustrated by Richard Cuffari
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Triangle Histories: The Civil War
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Library of Explorers and Exploration
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How Men Discovered the World
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from Lerner Publishing Group
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Hunters Blaze the Trails
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In Their Own Words: World War I
by Nicholas Saunders
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Incas
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
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Gray-Wolf's Indian Culture series
by Robert Hofsinde
from William Morrow & Company
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Indians at Home
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by Robert Hofsinde
from William Morrow & Company
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Indians of Mexico
A Book to Begin On
by Margaret C. Farquhar, illustrated by Mel Klapholz
First Edition from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
Island Far From Home
by John Donahue
from Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
James Longstreet
Triangle Histories: The Civil War
by Melanie LeTourneau
from Blackbirch Press
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Jefferson Davis
Triangle Histories: The Civil War
by W. Scott Ingram
from Blackbirch Press
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$3.50 (1 in stock)
John Charles Frémont
by Charles W. Maynard
1st edition from PowerKids Press
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Joseph E. Johnston
Famous Figures of the Civil War Era
by Christin Ditchfield
from Chelsea House Publishing
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Journal of One Davey Wyatt
by Donald Honig, illustrated by Sam Fink
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Juan Ponce de Leon and the Search for the Fountain of Youth
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from Chelsea House Publishing
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$6.00 (2 in stock)
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Fact Finders
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from Capstone Press
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
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We the People
by Patricia Ryon Quiri
from Compass Point Books
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$3.50 (1 in stock)
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Primary Sources of American Symbols
by Jennifer Silate
1st edition from PowerKids Press
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Life During the Great Civilizations: The Inca
by Charles & Linda George
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Lighthouses of America
by Mina Lewiton, Illustrated by Howard Simon
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$12.50 (1 in stock)
Magic of Spices
by E. Joseph Dreany
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
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$25.00 (1 in stock)
Makers of the Americas
by Marion Lansing
Second Edition from D. C. Heath and Company
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Maryland Colony: Lord Baltimore
Building America
by Jim Whiting
from Mitchell Lane Publishers
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Ol' Paul the Mighty Logger
by Glen Rounds
from Holiday House
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$4.00 (2 in stock)
Patrick Henry
by JoAnn A. Grote
from Chelsea House Publishing
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Patrick Henry
The Founding Fathers
by Stuart A. Kallen
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Peter Jumping Horse at the Stampede
by Gordon Langley Hall, illustrated by Jennifer Kent
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Picture Book of John Hancock
by David A. Adler, Michael S. Adler
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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by Edith S. McCall
from Children's Press
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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by Brendon Bernhard
from Chelsea House Publishing
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
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by Andrew Santella
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$3.50 (2 in stock)
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
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by Nancy Winslow Parker
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Leonard Everett Fisher
from Franklin Watts
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Puerto Rico
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from Capstone Press
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
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$6.00 (2 in stock)
R My Name is Rachel
by Patricia Reilly Giff
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Anne Souby
from Steck-Vaughn Company
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
San Domingo
by Marguerite Henry; illustrated by Robert Lougheed
from Rand McNally
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$9.60 (1 in stock)
Science in Colonial America
by Brendan January
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$7.00 (2 in stock)
Seeds of a Nation - Massachusetts
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$3.50 (2 in stock)
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Events That Shaped America
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from Gareth Stevens Publishing
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Settlers on a Strange Shore
by Edith S. McCall
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Sir Francis Drake
Library of Explorers and Exploration
by Joy Paige
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Sounder
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Realistic Fiction for 3rd-8th grade
1970 Newbery Medal winner
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South Town
by Lorenz Graham
from Follett Publishing Co.
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Statue of Liberty
by Jennifer Silate
from PowerKids Press
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Stephen Foster
Lives and Times
by Peggy Pancella
from Heinemann Library
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Story of the California Gold Rush
Cornerstones of Freedom series
by R. Conrad Stein
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Historical Non-Fiction for 4th-6th grade
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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Let Freedom Ring
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
Texas War of Independence
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
They Put Out to Sea: The Story of the Map
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$68.00 (1 in stock)
Timeline of Congress
Timelines of American History
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
Timeline of the Abolitionist Movement
Timelines of American History
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Timeline of the White House
Timelines of American History
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Traveling the Missouri
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
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Events That Shaped America
by A. R. Schaefer, Sabrina Crewe
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Ulysses S. Grant
Triangle Histories: The Civil War
by David C. King
from Blackbirch Press
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$3.50 (1 in stock)
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History of the Civil War
by Laura Anne Rickarby
from Silver Burdett Press
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by David Rubel
from Scholastic Inc.
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Vasco de Gama and the Portuguese Explorers
by Jim Gallagher
from Chelsea House Publishing
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$5.00 (2 in stock)
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