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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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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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1937 Newbery Honor Book
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Historical fiction for 2nd-4th grade
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2008 Caldecott Honor Book
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House Divided
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1961 Newbery Medal Winner
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
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by Laura Ingalls Wilder, illustrated by Garth Williams
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$17.99
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by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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1942 Newbery Honor Book
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2005 Newbery Honor Book
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1941 Newbery Honor Book
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1975 Newbery Honor Book
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by Kenneth Thomasma
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1938 Newbery Honor Book
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$18.99
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Realistic Fiction for 6th-8th grade
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Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
1st edition from Scholastic Inc.
Realistic Fiction for 6th-8th grade
1998 Newbery Medal winner
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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from Dial Press
for 4th-7th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$16.99
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by Judith Berry Griffin
from Weekly Reader
Historical Fiction for 3rd-6th grade
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Place to Hang the Moon
by Kate Albus
from Margaret Ferguson Books
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$17.99
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
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by Nathan Hale
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$14.99
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from Robinson Curriculum
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
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$20.00
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
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for 4th-8th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims
by Rush Limbaugh
from Threshold Editions
for 4th-8th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Rush Limbaugh
1St Edition from Threshold Editions
for 4th-8th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Michael Rosen, Illustrated by Maria Cristina Pritelli
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for Kindergarten-2nd grade
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
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by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott
First Ed from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 1st-4th grade
2006 Newbery Honor Book
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$18.99
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by Wilma Pitchford Hays, illustrated by Peter Cox
from Coward McCann
for 3rd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
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by Ian Serraillier, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
from Criterion Books
for 4th-8th grade
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$8.00 (3 in stock)
Sing Down the Moon
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from Houghton Mifflin
for 6th-8th grade
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
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by Paula Fox
from Simon and Schuster
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
1974 Newbery Medal winner
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Slave Dancer
by Paula Fox
from Simon and Schuster
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
1974 Newbery Medal winner
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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by Paula Fox, illustrated by Eros Keith
from Bradbury Press
Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade
1974 Newbery Medal winner
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Snow Goose
by Paul Gallico
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for 7th-12th grade
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$19.95 $14.00 (2 in stock)
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by Eve Bunting
from Clarion Books
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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by Peggy Nolan
from Pineapple Press
Adventure Stories for 2nd-6th grade
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$14.95
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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from HarperCollins
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
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by John Esten Cooke
from American Foundation Publications
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$8.00 (2 in stock)
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from Houghton Mifflin
for 4th-6th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
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by W. Walter Van Baman
from Privately printed
History in Verse for 10th-Adult
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
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from Houghton Mifflin
Historical Fiction for 7th-9th grade
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Sword of the Wilderness
by Elizabeth Coatsworth, illustrated by Harve Stein
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
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Awakening Land #1
by Conrad Richter
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 9th-Adult
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
These Happy Golden Years
Little House Series #8
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1944 Newbery Honor Book
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$19.99
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by Jean Lee Latham
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$56.00 (1 in stock)
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Trail Through Danger
by William O. Steele, illustrated by Charles Beck
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$8.00 (2 in stock)
Traitor Among Us
by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood
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by Nathan Hale
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$14.99
Underground Abductor
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #5
by Nathan Hale
from Amulet Books
for 3rd-8th grade
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$14.99
Well of Sacrifice
by Chris Eboch
1st edition from Clarion Books
for 4th-8th grade
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$8.00 (2 in stock)
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by Vesper Stamper
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 9th-Adult
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$19.99
Which Way Freedom?
by Joyce Hansen
from Walker and Company
for 5th-8th grade
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$4.00 (2 in stock)
Winnie's Great War
by Lindsay Mattick and Josh Greenhut, Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
from Little, Brown & Company
for 3rd-6th grade
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$16.99
Yankee Doodle Boy
by Joseph Martin
from Holiday House
Historical Non-Fiction for 5th-8th grade
in American Revolution (1765-1783) (Location: HISA-18REV)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
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