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History 1: American

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  1. Lesson 1: Orientation
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  2. Lesson 2: The Banner of the Sun (Meso-America)
    13 Steps
  3. Lesson 3: Brave New World (The Early Explorers)
    11 Steps
  4. Lesson 4: The Colossus of Empire (The Colonies)
    11 Steps
  5. Lesson 5: Stability & Change (The Reformational Colonies)
    11 Steps
  6. Lesson 6: A City Upon A Hill (The Puritans)
    12 Steps
  7. Lesson 7: A Foreign War at Home (Wars of Control)
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  8. Lesson 8: Grace, the Founder of Liberty (The Great Awakening)
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  9. Lesson 9: Fathers of Independence (Adams, Franklin, Witherspoon, & Henry)
    11 Steps
  10. Lesson 10: Liberty or Death (The Declaration of Independence)
    11 Steps
  11. Lesson 11: Awesome Providence (The War of Independence 1)
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  12. Lesson 12: Awesome Providence (The War of Independence 2)
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  13. Lesson 13: A More Perfect Union (The Constitution)
    12 Steps
  14. Lesson 14: Federal Headship (George Washington)
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  15. Lesson 15: How Good & Pleasant It Is (Adams & Jefferson)
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  16. Lesson 16: Manifest Destiny (Settlers, Explorers, & War)
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  17. Lesson 17: Word & Deed (John Quincy Adams & Andrew Jackson)
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  18. Lesson 18: The Original United Nations (Expansion of the Early U.S.)
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  19. Lesson 19: Idols of Mercy (Revivals, Counterfeits, & Art)
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  20. Lesson 20: A House Divided 1 (The Age of Compromise & Divided Cultures)
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  21. Lesson 21: A House Divided 2 (Abraham Lincoln & Secession)
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  22. Lesson 22: The Second War for Independence (The War Between the States 1)
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  23. Lesson 23: Brother Against Brother (The War Between the States 2)
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  24. Lesson 24: The Lost Cause (Reconstruction)
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  25. Lesson 25: A New Normal (The West, Immigration, & Robber Barons)
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  26. Lesson 26: Theology As Biography (Theodore Roosevelt & Booker T. Washington)
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ASSIGNMENT: 

  1. Read the following quotes.
  2. Write an essay of 150-250 words explaining the value of history and/or the humanities by using the wisdom of one or more quotes. (Note: This essay is Exam #1.)

SELECTION: Quotes on the study of history and the humanities.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.” – Solomon

“Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them.” – Francis Bacon

“Education ought to be little more than a form of intellectual repentance. If it is more than that or less than that, horrors result.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Those who have no concern for their ancestors will, by simple application of the same rule, have none for their descendants.” – Richard Weaver

“The recollection of the past is only useful by way of provision for the future.” – Samuel Johnson

“History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of the environment and the pressures of the air we breathe.” – Lord Acton

“Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history—the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can’t seem to keep in our collective memory.” – Hilaire Belloc

“So alongside the ‘harvest’ of creativity and self-sacrifice, of scientific investigation and social conscience, of mission and spirituality, there is the second harvest [evil deeds]. But this is what the Christian faith, centered on the cross, is all about: on the cross, triumph and victory are shot through with rejection, disaster and dereliction. There the true nature of human history stands displayed.  The Christian faith does not have to contort itself to embrace the hard facts of history. It admits that the tragedy of history cannot be avoided, but claims that there is power that redeems tragedy.” – John Briggs

“They will never love where they ought to love who do not hate where they ought to hate.” – Edmund Burke