History/Geography 320

20th Century World History

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Grades:
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Take an exhilarating journey through the 20th Century!

You and your students will witness the major events that have shaped the last 100 years using Visual History of the Modern World. You'll blaze new trails of understanding as your Core 300 Instructor's Guide helps you maneuver the heights of technological advancement and the depth of human suffering.

Through hundreds of eyewitness photographs and over 600 pages of captivating commentary the 20th Century will come to life for your children as if they were right there watching key events unfold.

  • Discover how Russia went from being our friend and ally in World War II to our greatest foe in decades following.
  • Investigate a 1973 court case whose decision continues to divide a nation.
  • Learn how a defeated island nation rose to become a vast economic power.
  • Delight in a modern-day "Cinderella" story that impacted the entire Western world.
  • Watch 100 million people in Eastern Europe experience freedom because of only two words.
  • And much more...

Your Core 300 Instructor's Guide integrates Literature and Language Arts.

Biographies & Historical Fiction Program 320

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History 320

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There's a Sheep In My Bathtub

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What can God do when you simply trust and obey Him? Watch an unreached people explode with the Gospel—not in the first century, but in ours! Like this American family in remote, mysterious Outer...

The Road from Home

A True Story of Courage, Survival,...
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The author writes a true-to-life fictionalized autobiography of his mother--a young Armenian girl in Turkey during the "other" 20th century Holocaust that was prelude to Stalin, Hitler, and others.

All Quiet on the Western Front

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Hailed as "the greatest war novel of all time," the author says his purpose is "simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by" the First World...

You Want WOMEN to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

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A simple but thorough introduction to the work and words of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the pioneers in the women's suffrage movement.

Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity

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One of the few readable and understandable biographies of Albert Einstein, the man whose General Theory of Relativity became a watchword for the revolutionary transformation of life in the 20th Centur...

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

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ALA Notable. The autobiographical story of World War II seen through the eyes of a young German Jewish girl who, together with her family, escapes Germany in 1933 only to find that they must continue...

The Snow Goose

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A simple yet moving story of love and faithfulness and duty . . . concerning a hunch backed man, a young girl, and a snow goose . . . all climaxing at the Battle of Dunkirk. A perennial favorite since...

Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist

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Carefully researched, deftly written, lavishly illustrated with photographs, this is a vivid, lively, and engaging biography of one of this century's greatest statesmen.

China's Long March: 6,000 Miles of Danger

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Stunning portrayal of one of the defining events in modern Chinese history: the epic 6000-mile trek of Mao Zedong and his men as they sought to escape the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek in the...

Fallen Angels

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You are there . . . in Viet Nam. 1968. The height of the war. This book is hard-hitting, stomach-churning reality. Violence. Not for younger readers nor for the squeamish.

Living On the Devil's Doorstep

From Kabul to Amsterdam
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A strait-laced preacher's kid becomes a minister to hippies, drug addicts, prostitutes and other societal drop-outs, first in Kabul, Afghanistan, and then on the streets of Amsterdam, Holland. Challen...

Children of the River

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Multiple award-winner. A stunning tale of cultural pressures felt by a Cambodian girl who finds herself a refugee in late 20th Century United States.

Red Scarf Girl

A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution...
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Multiple award-winner. A devastating, first-person story of the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao in the late '60s.

After the War

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In this gripping novel about the period immediately following World War II, Ruth, a fifteen-year-old survivor of Buchenwald risks her life to lead a group of Jewish orphans to Palestine.

The Hiding Place

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The worldwide bestseller about a staunchly Christian Dutch family whose faith overcomes the worst of the Nazi holocaust. Challenging and uplifting.

Our Century in Pictures for Young People

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A wonderful adaptation of the popular book, The Century (from former ABC news anchor Peter Jennings).

Labor's Untold Story

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The adventure story of the battles, betrayals, and victories of American working men and women. Two newspaper reporters tell the story of labor unions in the United States from their first appearance...

To Destroy You Is No Loss

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A violent Cambodian regime killed young Teeda's father and drove her educated family into a life of forced labor. Escape with her from terrifying slavery to freedom in America. Incredible.

Visual History of the Modern World

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Unique in all of human history, the 20th century is the first to be documented, not just in words but also in images, across the whole of its 100 years.

Made You Look

How Advertising Works and Why You S...
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How advertising works, and what your kids (a prized demographic) should know. Familiar examples get unbiased review, raising teens' critical awareness of the messages filling their world.

God Spoke Tibetan

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Follow a disgraced Tibetan official, a hapless courier, Christian missionaries, native translators and more, to hear the moving story of how the Bible came to the Tibetan people in their own language....