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Teacher’s American & Modern History Resources
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The Penguin Atlas of North American History includes nicely readable maps
of all periods of American and Canadian history to 1870, or the period of Reconstruction
after the Civil War. From that time on the exploration of North America was close to being
complete, and the state lines were in place. Colin McEvedy also includes, along with each
map, a brief essay on the events and time period being portrayed.
In case Colin McEvedy’s atlas above cannot be found, this atlas can
be used in its place. This atlas examines the history of North America’s three
principle nations, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, from their colonial origins to the
formations of the North American Free Trade Association. The survey follows the rise of
the U.S. to superpower status and assesses the relation of the three nations as a whole to
the rest of the world. The maps and photographs are in full color.
The Rewriting of America’s History is a forthright exposé of
accelerated attempts to remove evidences of Christian heritage in places commemorating our
national history, our monuments and national landmarks. “Catherine Millard points out
the frustration that so many Americans feel ... to reclaim our beloved nation from the
destructive forces of humanism, secularism, atheism, and false religions, we must first
retrieve the true history from those who have almost hidden it beneath an avalanche of
lies, distortions, and misinterpretations.” - D. James Kennedy, Ph.D. Other wonderful
books by Catherine Millard which restores the Christian foundation of our national history
include Great
American Statesmen and Heroes, The Christian
Heritage of our Nation: Landmarks, The Christian
Heritage of our Nation: Memorials, The Christian
Heritage of our Nation: U.S. Presidents and Their Churches, and The Christian
Heritage of the 50 United States of America.
In one volume, this history of the United States covers the major events
and persons of our nation from Christopher Columbus to the end of the Second World War.
Elson’s history is unique among surveys, in that it falls “between the elaborate
works, which are beyond the reach of most busy people, and the condensed school histories,
which are emasculated of all literary style through the necessity of crowding so many
facts into small space.” He successfully combined the science of historical research
with the art of historical composition, as other great historians also have done. It is a
narrative history, telling the stories of the people and the times. I have found it very
helpful for filling in the holes in my own knowledge of American history, and for
including details and perspective about persons and events out of vogue with many modern
historians, as this work was originally published in 1904, and continuously reprinted
until after World War II.
Published by Penguin, the publisher of accessible editions of the works of
ancient, classical, and medieval authors, The Oxford History of the American People
is written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian, Samuel Eliot Morison. In
three volumes, he covers the complete history of North America, from prehistory to the
death of John F. Kennedy in an interesting and easy-to-read narrative style. This is a
more traditional history of the United States than Paul Johnson’s or Russell
Kirk’s acclaimed volumes recommended below. Volume One
covers Prehistory to 1789 and the writing of the Constitution of the United States, Volume Two
covers 1789 through reconstruction at the end of the Civil War, and Volume Three
covers 1869 through the death of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Paul Johnson has produced an epic that spans the history of the American
people over the past 400 years. The narrative covers every aspect of U.S. history, from
science, customs, religion, and politics to the individual men and women who have helped
shape the nation. Johnson’s text is intelligent and rich with detail, and yet
extremely accessible for anyone interested in a conservative analysis of America's past.
What makes this book unique is Johnson’s approach. The prevalent tone throughout is
optimism. Johnson is openly enamored with America’s past, particularly the hardships
and tribulations that the nation has had to overcome. The result is an in-depth portrait
of a great people, from their fragile origins through their struggles for independence and
nationhood, their heroic efforts and sacrifices to deal with the ‘organic sin’
of slavery and the preservation of the Union to its explosive economic growth and
emergence as a world power and its sole superpower. He sees Americans as a problem-solving
people and the story of America as ‘essentially one of difficulties being overcome by
intelligence and skill, by faith and strength of purpose, by courage and
persistence...Looking back on its past, and forward to its future, the auguries are that
it will not disappoint humanity.’
This book is not a typical history of the United States. Instead, it is a
book on the history of the ideas and the philosophy of that made the United States the
country it is. It is a book on the history of the individual, moral, legal, and societal
order of Western Civilization, and how American society was built and grew on that order.
It covers in scope the time period from Moses and the giving of the Law, through the Civil
War. Chapters include Order, the First Need of All; The Law and the Prophets; Glory and
Ruin: the Greek World; Virtue and Power: the Roman Tension; the Genius of Christianity;
the Light of the Middle Ages; the Reformer’s Drum; the Constitution of Church and
State; Salutary Neglect: the Colonial Order; Eighteenth-Century Intellects; Declaration
and Constitution; and Contending Against American Disorder. Return to 5th Grade History: The American World6th Grade Modern World Teacher’s Resources
This addition to the Penguin Atlas series covers European history from the
late fifteenth century to the fall of the Napoleonic empire in 1815. Each new page is a
map representing the changing boundaries of Europe every 40 years or so, with the facing
page McEvedy’s concise yet witty commentary on the times. These atlases are so
helpful, not just for the maps, which help you visualize what the narrative histories are
talking about, but for McEvedy’s commentary, which help you think about the events
often in a new light.
The final atlas in the Penguin Atlas series covers the events in Europe
since 1815. This includes the nationalization of most European countries, since the Holy
Roman Empire died with the Napoleonic Empire; the struggle between monarchies and the
ideals of government by the people, whether that government took the shape of a democracy
as in France, or a communist state as in Russia; European colonization in the 19th
century; the great world wars, and the cold war, of the twentieth century. The maps are
accompanied, as in the other volumes in this series, by McEvedy’s insightful
comments.
Subtitled: From the French Revolution to the Cold War. This modest-sized
book covers all the essentials of modern European history in 212 pages, as opposed to
other tomes on the same subject that require hundreds more pages. It gives a busy
homeschool parent a foundational understanding of what happened and why, without taking up
too much of her precious time. Added bonuses are chapter introductions which state in a
single sentence the governing theme of that chapter’s piece of history
(“Absolutism tried to make a comeback in the nineteenth century, but only managed to
postpone--not defeat--the liberal aspirations of an increasingly urban population.”),
and provide a brief list of that chapter’s important events with dates; and summaries
at the end of each chapter which recap what you should have learned. The book jacket makes
it sound as if all the history focuses on is “the dirt on key historical
figures.” I was apprehensive to read the book because of it, but found that while a
few references to scandals are present, the vast majority of the text is just what I was
looking for: a reasonable and interesting overview of modern history, which filled in the
gaps in my own knowledge of such events as the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the
infighting resulting from the fall of the Napoleonic Empire and the rise of individual
nations, European colonization of Africa and Asia, and the causes of the modern World
Wars.
David Breese identifies seven men who, even though they rest in their
graves, influence the world in negative ways through their ideas. They include: Darwin,
Marx, Wellhausen, Dewey, Freud, Keynes, and Kierkegaard. All seven of these men have lived
in the modern era, and have been influenced by the Enlightenment in various ways; in other
words, by the revival of humanist thinking, that man, independent of God or of God’s
laws and absolute truth, can “arrive.” This worldview has greatly influenced
modern thought and therefore modern history, and events such as European colonization or
World War II can be better understood when one understands the philosophy behind those
events.
Dr. Morris takes a more specific look at the influence of one of the seven
men mentioned above, Darwin, and shows how evolutionary thought influenced Marx and many
of the other influencial seven. He also deftly traces the results in the modern era of
adherance to evolutionary philosophy: nationally, politically, economically, and socially.
He then follows the roots of evolutionism back in time before Darwin, all the way back to
the classical and ancient worlds, back to its beginning in rebellion against God with
Nimrod, the founder of Babel and Babylon, and shows that this philosophy of Babylon is
indeed the great enemy of God presented in Revelation. This idea, this lie, truly has a
long history of warring against God. The book is scholarly and extensively footnoted and
documented, and is not a quick read, but its message is invaluable, which you will not
find repeated in other books.
This modern classic is a clear and gracious treatment of church history by
Dr. Bruce Shelley, Senior Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Denver
Theological Seminary. “What separates Dr. Shelley’s book from others is its
clarity, both of language and of organization. [It] treats history as the story of
people--their motivations, the issues they grapple with, the decisions they make--and the
result is that history reads like a story, almost as dramatic and moving as a novel. Yet
there is no fiction here.” For ease of learning and understanding, the book is
divided into the eight great ages of the church: The Age of Jesus and the Apostles (6 B.C.
to 70 A.D.), of Catholic Christianity (70-312 A.D.), of the Christian Roman Empire
(312-590), of the Christian Middle Ages (590-1517), of the Reformation (1517-1648), of
Reason and Revival (1648-1789), of Progress (1789-1914), and of Ideologies (1914-1996).
Very helpful and insightful. Return to 6th Grade History: The Modern World9th Grade American and Modern World Teacher’s ResourcesOn the Use of Real Books in the Secondary CurriculumI highly recommend those teacher’s resources listed in the study of the American world in 5th grade and the the modern world in 6th grade, (especially The Long War Against God by Dr. Henry Morris, which traces the devastating effects of Darwinism on our modern society and the events of the 20th century) to help give a fuller picture of the history of the modern era, along with these resources which help illuminate the underlying worldviews which informed the actions and events of the modern era.
Subtitled: A Basic Worldview Catalog. Sire begins with the worldview of
Christian Theism, and shows how a departure from that worldview in different ways has
produced the various worldviews most common in the modern era: Deism, Naturalism,
Nihilism, Existentialism, Eastern Pantheistic Monism, New Agism, and Postmodernism.
Dr. Noebel takes a different tack in this epic work than Sire does in his.
He identifies the three major worldviews underlying and giving rise to all others as
Christianity, Secular Humanism, and Marxism. Using a wide variety of topics, he compares
the three, showing the foundations of each and the relationships among them, and how each
of these worldviews interprets the world around it. Sire’s work is extensive but
probably more of an introduction to the topic; Noebel’s work is deeper and more
intensive. Reading both gives the homeschool teacher a deeper dimension to their
understanding than just reading one or the other would.
This wonderful history of philosophy is probably the most important
teacher’s resource offered for this level. “There are very few histories of
philosophy written by Christians, and it is fair to say that the book you hold in your
hands is the only such history in English that has escaped the corroding influence of
secular philosophy, especially the philosophy of empiricism. ... [Clark is both] familiar
with the subject [and] rigorous in [his] understanding of Christianity. ... [The book] is
eminently readable, consistently entertaining, unfailingly accurate, and uncompromisingly
Christian.” Chapters seven through eleven are devoted to modern philosophy, beginning
with seventeenth century Rationalism and Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz; British
Empiricism and Locke, Berkeley, and Hume; Immanuel Kant; G. W. F. Hegel; and contemporary
Irrationalism and Pragmatism with Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Comte, Dewey, and others.
This new book is an invaluable teacher’s resource because it sheds
light on something that you don’t normally see, which usually gets quietly swept
under the rug: the fruit of communist philosophy and governments. The fact is that the
fruit of communism has been atheism, poverty, totalitarianism, oppression, and large-scale
genocide. If Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruit,” then what does
that fruit say about its root philosophical system? This is not an engaging narrative
history, but a recounting of the effects of communism in the Soviet Union, during the
October Revolution through the Stalinization of the empire in all its areas, from the
collectivization of the farms to the establishment of the gulags, in Spain, in Eastern
Europe, in China, in North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, in Latin America, and in
Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, and Afghanistan. Return to 9th Grade History: The American and Modern WorldUsing the Online CatalogThis online catalog is made possible through an association with Amazon.com. Clicking on the book cover will take you to Amazon’s information page about that book. You can look at its price, availability, any discounts currently taken for that title, reviews of the book, and other information, as well as order it if you decide to purchase the book. You can even place books in your shopping cart and save them for purchase at a later time. You can continue to add or delete books from your shopping cart until you are satisfied with your order and ready to purchase. Clicking on your browser’s “Back” button will bring you back to this catalog. Locating Out of Print Books If all else fails, and you cannot find a book you need, check it out from the library, or request it from your library through interlibrary loan. Once you have the book home, take it to a copy store and copy it. You can even have color copies done of key maps or photographs. Copy stores can now do nice bindings on your copy projects. The copyright law allows copying of out of print (not in print) works to be used for educational purposes. Then return the book to the library, and you have your own book to keep, usually for less than it would be from a collector’s book shop. Still have questions? Ask me! Return to the CatalogReturn to Teacher’s History ResourcesCCH’s History CurriculumOnline Catalog IndexClassical Curriculum and Online Catalog
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