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Volume I • Volume II • Volume III • Volume IV • Welcome from the Author

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Upcoming Volume
Volume IV - Revolutions and Rising Nations

Upon completion, The Mystery of History will be a four volume* set of classical, chronological, complete world history.   Though progressing in difficulty, each in itself is a stand alone curriculum for all ages.  Each will be written in the same user-friendly format which includes pretests, quizzes, mapping, timeline, and age appropriate activities for reinforcement, enrichment, and fun. 

Volume IV, the last and final volume, will not replace American history for students seeking American history requirements. However, this volume will weave major events of U.S. history into world history giving a broader appreciation of both. In much the same way that Volume I uniquely integrates Bible and “secular” history, I will strive in Volume IV to integrate American history with “world” events in a refreshing and meaningful way.

The release date of Volume IV will be announced when that information is known. For your planning purposes, it will be several years until that volume is available. I am presently writing; I am called and committed to the task; and I greatly appreciate your prayers for the integrity of the work, accuracy in presenting it, and expediency in its delivery. 

In the meantime, it may benefit you to know that I have recorded for your purchase three lectures giving you a “Sneak Peek” into the contents of Volume IV. While these lectures (covering Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Adolf Hitler, and more) can in no way provide you with a full course for the time period, these three 1-hour sessions, recorded in front of a live audience, will give you a meaty introduction to the serious topics found in Volume IV. (They are, in my opinion, relevant to our world today!) They may also prove helpful in giving your older students a Christian perspective of world history events that may be absent in other texts covering the same events. (Free outlines are available for your students for each session.) The sessions, available as individual MP3 downloads, or a more economical bundle of all three, are as follows:

Session 1: “Good Seed – Bad Seed” – The Great Awakening; Voltaire and the Enlightenment; The French Revolution; Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto

Session 2: “Strong Faith – No Faith” - Hudson Taylor and the Taiping Rebellion; Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution; The Theory of Intelligent Design and The Theory of Creation

Session 3: “Bad Boys of the 20th Century” – Vladimir Lenin Forms the U.S.S.R.; Benito Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism; Joseph Stalin; Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust

Click here if interested in purchasing sessions from “A Sneak Peek of Volume IV.”

*If you previously heard that this curriculum was a five-volume set, you heard correctly! That was my original plan. However, after much prayer and many surveys, the publisher’s and I have agreed that a four volume series is more attainable, cost-efficient, and user-friendly. Thus, my Table of Contents for Volumes IV and V have been merged and modified to span the 1700’s to modern times. It will be a hefty study!