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320 History/Geography

20th Century World History
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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.


History Program 320

History Program 320
This is part of a Core and so does not include an Instructor's Guide.

Recommended for ages: 15-18

15 16 17 18
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Biographies & Historical Fiction Program 320

Biographies & Historical Fiction Program 320
This is part of a Core and so does not include an Instructor's Guide.

Recommended for ages: 15-18

15 16 17 18

After the War

After the War

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. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity

Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity

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 more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

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 more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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God Spoke Tibetan

God Spoke Tibetan

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 more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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There’s a Sheep In My Bathtub

There’s a Sheep In My Bathtub

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 more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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To Destroy You Is No Loss

To Destroy You Is No Loss

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. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Children of the River

Children of the River

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. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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China's Long March: 6,000 Miles of Danger

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

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 more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Visual History of the Modern World

Visual History of the Modern World

Unique in all of human history, the modern world is the first to be documented, not just in words but also in images, across the whole of the last century. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels

You are there . . . in Viet Nam. 1968. The height of the war. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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The Hiding Place

The Hiding Place

The worldwide bestseller about a staunchly Christian Dutch family whose faith overcomes the worst of the Nazi holocaust. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Labor's Untold Story

Labor's Untold Story

Two newspaper reporters tell the story of labor unions in the United States from their first appearance in the mid-1800s through the early 1950s. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Living On the Devil's Doorstep

Living On the Devil's Doorstep

From Kabul to Amsterdam A very "straight" 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. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Made You Look

Made You Look

How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know 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. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Our Century in Pictures for Young People

Our Century in Pictures for Young People

A wonderful adaptation of Peter Jennings' popular adult book The Century. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Parallel Journeys

Parallel Journeys

How did Hitler get normal German citizens to do his evil will? The author interweaves the personal narratives of Helen Waterford, a German Jewish woman who got married only days more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Red Scarf Girl

Red Scarf Girl

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

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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The Road from Home

The Road from Home

A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope 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. more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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The Snow Goose

The Snow Goose

A simple yet awesome, moving story of love and faithfulness and duty . . . concerning a hunch backed man, a young girl, and a snow goose . . . more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

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 more »

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist

Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist

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

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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You Want WOMEN to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

You Want WOMEN to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

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

Recommended for ages: 15-18 15 16 17 18
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Item #320-99