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extra-biblical resources


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Killing the Legends
  • By Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, 2022

The Importance of Being Earnest
  • By Oscar Wilde

Money Mountain, The Story of Cripple Creek Gold-
excerpt
  • By Marshall Sprague, 1979

The Indian Wars- excerpt
  • By Theodore Roosevelt, 1905

The Texas Border- excerpt
  • By Robert J. Casey, 1950

The American West- excerpt
  • By Lucius Beebe & Charles Clegg, 1955
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Glory Road-
excerpt
  • By Bruce Catton, 1952

Incidents of Travel and Adventures in the Far West- excerpt
  • By Solomon Nunes Carvalho, 1858
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Four Years in the Rockies-
excerpt
  • By James B. Marsh
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Mr. Lincoln's Army-
excerpt
  • By Bruce Catton, 1951
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The War Lords of Washington-
excerpt
  • By Bruce Catton, 1948​

The Far Western Frontier- excerpt
  • By William Byers, 1859
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Abraham Lincoln, The War Years- excerpt
  • By Carl Sandburg, 1925

The Coming Fury- excerpt
  • By Bruce Catton, 1961

Grant Moves South- excerpt
  • By Bruce Catton, 1960

This Hallowed Ground- excerpt
  • By Bruce Catton, 1955

Killing Patton
  • By Bill O'Reilly, 2014

A Stillness at Appomattox- excerpt
  • By Bruce Catton, 1953
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For the Glory of God-
excerpt
  • By Rodney Stark, 2003
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The Broken Hearth-
excerpt
  • By William J. Bennett, 2001

The Reading Life- excerpt
  • By C. S. Lewis, 1961

The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone- ebook
  • ​By Edward S. Ellis, 1884

Killing Crazy Horse- excerpt
  • By Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard, 2020

Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans- excerpt
  • By General Thomas James, 1846
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Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest-
excerpt
  • By Grant Foreman, 1926

Travels on the Osage Prairies, 1840- eBook
  • By Victor Tixier
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A Trip to Pike's Peak- eBook
  • By C. M. Clark MD, 1861

A Tour on the Prairies- excerpt
  • By Washington Irving, 1859
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The Commerce of the Prairies-
excerpt
  • By Josiah Gregg, 1844

History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations- excerpt
  • By Rev. John Heckewelder, 1876
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Secret Empires-
excerpt
  • By Peter Schweizer, 2018

The Souls of Black Folk- excerpt
  • By W. E. B. DeBoi, 1903

Reforging the White Republic- excerpt
  • By Edward J. Blum, 2005
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The Thin Light of Freedom-
excerpt
  • By Edward L. Ayers, 2017

Black Reconstruction in America- excerpt
  • By W. E. B. Du Bois, 1934

The Refugee: on the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada- eBook
  • ​By Benjamin Drew, 1856

Killing Lincoln- excerpt
  • By Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, 2011

​The Darwin Myth- excerpt
  • By Benjamin Wiker, 2009

Undeniable- excerpt
  • By Douglas Axe, 20016
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The American Miracle- excerpt
  • ​By Michael Medved, 20016

Icons of Evolution- Science of Myth?- excerpt 
  • By Jonathan Wells, 2000

The Better Angels of our Nature- Why Violence has Declined
  • By Stephen Pinker, 2011
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The Square and the Tower- excerpt
  • By Niall Ferguson, 2017

The Federalist
  • By Gottfried Dietze, 1960

Churchill, The Man of the Century- excerpt
  • Neil Ferrier, 1965

Our Nation's Great Heritage- excerpt
  • By Donald E. Cook, 1972

House Divided
  • By Ben Ames Williams, 1947

Our Republic- excerpt
  • By Harry Atwood, 1918

Abraham Lincoln, the Prairie Years- excerpt
  • By Carl Sandburg, 1925

The Gathering Storm, The Second World War- excerpt
  • By Winston S. Churchill, 1948

Their Finest Hour, The Second World War- excerpt
  • By Winston S. Churchill, 1949

The Grand Alliance, The Second World War- excerpt
  • By Winston S. Churchill, 1950
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Closing the Ring, The Second World War- excerpt
  • By Winston S. Churchill, 1952
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Triumph and Tragedy, The Second World War- excerpt
  • By Winston S. Churchill, 1953

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
  • By Jerry Mander, 1978

The Prophet
  • By Kahlil Gibran, 1923

Patrick Henry, Life, Correspondence and Speeches- excerpt
  • By William Wirt Henry, 1993

The Devil's Horsemen- excerpt
  • By James Chambers, 1979

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus- eBook
  • Translated by George Long

Digging Up Jerusalem- excerpt
  • By Kathleen M. Kenyon, 1974

The Didache- excerpt
  • By Aaron Milavec, 2003

The Aleppo Codex- eBook- excerpt
  • By Matti Friedman, 2012

​Early Christianity Outside the Roman Empire- excerpt
  • By F. Crawford Burkitt, 1899

The Religious Thought of the Greeks- excerpt
  • By Clifford Herschel Moore, 1925

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds- excerpt
  • By Charles Mackay, 1848

The Church of the First Three Centuries- excerpt
  • By Alvan Lamson, 1873

​The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries- eBook
  • By Adolf Harnack, 1908
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​The Apostolic Fathers- excerpt
  • By J.B. Lightfoot, J.R. Harmer and Michael W. Holmes, 1891

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People- excerpt
  • By Bede, 731

Babylon Mystery Religion- excerpt
  • By Ralph Woodrow, 1966

How the Irish Saved Civilization- excerpt
  • By Thomas Cahill, 1995

The Great Christian Revolution- excerpt
  • By Otto Scott, 1994

​The Christian History of the American Revolution- excerpt
  • By Verna M. Hall, 1975

The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States- excerpt
  • By Verna M. Hall, 1966

Innocents Abroad- eBook
  • By Mark Twain, 1867

​History of Protestantism- eBook
  • Dr. J. A. Wylie LL.D., 1878

The Thirteenth Tribe- eBook
  • By Arthur Koestler, 1976

Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church- excerpt
  • By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1894

​The Chronicle of Arbela- eBook
  • Translated by Peter Kawerau, 1985

​The Works of Flavius Josephus- eBook
  • Translated by William Whiston

The Survival of the Pagan Gods- excerpt
  • By Jean Seznec, 1953

The Mainspring of Human Progress- excerpt
  • By Henry Grady Weaver, 1947

The Federalist Papers
  • By Hamilton, Madison and Jay, 1961

Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico
  • By Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1926

Incidents of Travel- excerpt
  • By John Lloyd Stephens, 1970

The Emergence of Modern America- excerpt
  • 1865-1900

Exonerated
  • By Dan Bongino, 2019

In the Beginning was Information
  • By Dr. Werner Gitt, 2006

Four Centuries in Kansas
  • By Isely and Richards, 1936

The Prairie Traveler- excerpt
  • By Randolph B. Marcy, 1859

The Wild West
  • By Adolph Regli, 1952

The Beginnings of the West
  • By Louise Barry, 1972

Dust Bowl
  • By Donald Worster, 1979

Bust to Boom
  • By Contance B. Schultz, 1996

Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves
  • By Harriet C. Frazier, 2004

Animal Farm
  • ​By George Orwell, 1945

A History of the Jews
  • By Solomon Grayzel, 1947

The Thin Light of Freedom
  • By Edward L. Ayers, 2017​

​The Wild Blue
  • By Stephen E. Ambrose, 2001
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