This website is devoted
to the revealing of the particular dynamics by which societies are
formed, prosper, and then experience decline ... dynamics revealed not
in laboratory experiments (societies cannot be experimented on) but
instead revealed in the narrative of history ‒ ancient and modern.
This first section refers to a work I very recently published (May 2025) a 283-page American history entitled Wake Up America!.
This history is focused on America's moral-spiritual
development and is designed to emphasize the need for America to
quickly get itself back on track as a nation covenanted with God to be
a "Light to the Nations" ... demonstrating how God wants all societies
to live and live gloriously Jesus's way.
Please note: going to this site will take youdirectly to the same textual, ebook and audio material... plus numerous pictures as well!
The next section ‒ America: The Covenant Nation
‒ comes directly from two volumes (1100 pages) of American history I had published
in 2021.
The first volume covers the history of America and its critically
important originating covenant with
God ... a covenant that has seen its ups and downs since its origins in
the early 1600s, but has always been critical to America's ability to
move forward in the face of some very deep challenges that have
impacted the nation deeply. This volume takes the reader through
the years of colonial development, years of trial and recovery as
a very distinct republic, and ends with the Great Depression of the
1930s
The second volume takes up the story with the rise of the dictators who
take the world into World War Two, explains the rise of America as a
superpower, and concludes with the problems of a deep moral-spiritual
divide that troubles deeply present-day America.
See the "About" selection above
for a quite substantial summary of these volumes

Again ... note: going to this site will also take you
directly to the same textual material
... plus numerous pictures as well!
I also published in 2021 a 560-page Abridged Version of this same history: America's Story ‒ A Spiritual Journey.
The next section ‒ A Moral History of Western Society ‒ also comes directly from two volumes (940 pages) of Western history I had published
in February of 2024.
The first volume ‒ Western History to 1850 ‒ covers the West's great
political, social, cultural and intellectual legacy ‒ running from the
ancient times of Greece, Rome, Israel and early Christianity down to just
prior to the "Gilded Age" of imperial Britain, France, Germany,
Austria, Russia, America, etc. ‒ that is, to the mid-1800s. But again,
what you will find here is not only the same 461 pages of that first
volume but also multitudes of pictures not in the printed version.
The second volume ‒ The West since 1850
‒ comes largely from the second volume of that same Western history
series. It covers Western (and global) political, social, cultural and
intellectual developments since the mid-1800s ... which includes a lot
of the same material found in the later chapters of the American
history publication ‒ but with a much broader reach to the larger
Western world ... and even to the world beyond.
And again ‒ here too you will discover multitudes of pictures.
See the "About" selection above
for a quite substantial summary of these volumes
Then comes the section on World Cultures
‒ which reaches back to prehistoric paleolithic and neolithic
societies, covers the rise of civilization in the Ancient East, then
the development of Chinese, Indian, Middle Eastern, and European
civilization ‒ and then summarizes the above sections on the arrival of
modern history.
With yes ... multitudes of pictures!
Then I bring to analysis the dynamics I have discovered,
over my many years of looking into the matter, to be behind all social
behavior ‒ present as well as past ‒ this is to say, actual "political
science." The primary focus is on the Dynamics of the Rise and Fall of Societies
... and derivatively, what it is that a society must do in order to
remain strong in this very competitive world of ours. And some fifteen
different country (or dynasty) studies of some 10 to 15 pages each are
introduced in the early part of the work in order to build a strong
fact basis for the social analysis that follows.
The next section is one that I started in the late 1990s: some Twelve Country Studies
(each in various stages of completion!) ranging from China in the East
to America in the West ‒ extensive histories in some cases. The China
history, for instance, constitutes over 100 pages of printed text ...
and the American history, a "summarization" of my published material
found in the sections above, is of a similar length.
The next section is another one that I started in the late 1990s ‒ in an effort to offer early Biographical References
to online researchers. This section is divided into three parts: People
of Ideas, People of Action, and then numerous In-Depth Biographical
Sketches.
Likewise, the next section represents an effort to place on the internet as many of the Classic Pieces of Literature
as possible ‒ in English translation of course, but often with the text
in the original language placed alongside the English translation.
Being the lover of art ‒ and its ability to give graphic
portrayal of the spirit of the times when it was created ‒ I have
included here a vast collection of Artists and their Works reaching from prehistoric, Mesopotamian, and ancient Egyptian art ... down to the present.
And of course pictures ... masses of pictures!
This next section is mostly a Collection of Historical Documents ‒ but also maps, historical outlines, and even policy papers I previously assigned my students as part of their course work.
And ‒ at the request of others ‒ I have also included some of the French Material
I developed when teaching the course at The King's Academy ... at least
some of the basics. I also could not resist including pictures of the
six trips I took with TKA students to Paris (and London) as part of
this section. Enjoy!
This next section is a year-long Christian history I put together as a Confirmation Class
for young Presbyterians I was pastoring. This was a combination of
Biblical history and then simply Church history ‒ stretching over the
centuries. I wanted these young teenagers (and their adult mentors
working with each one of them) to have a clearer picture of the great
spiritual legacy we Christians are privileged to possess ‒ not only to
measure up to but also to love and enjoy.
I have also included here copies of The Bible in Various Forms:
three English versions (NIV, RSV, and KJV), and a French, German, and
Spanish version ‒ plus the older Latin Vulgate version, the Hebrew Old
Testament, the Greek New Testament. And I included also the writings we
class as the Apocrypha.
Then concluding the series ‒ as a way of explaining the background and character of this website ‒ I have included My Own Personal Story
as a "Spiritual Pilgrim" ... also drawn from another publication of
mine, which appeared also in 2021. I offer this simply as a way of
presenting some perspective as to how and why I understand our history
as I do ‒ and its particular meaning to us today.
So here too you will find the full text of the 260-page
book but also multitudes of pictures which are not in the printed work.
About the Author
Miles Huntley Hodges is a combination Georgetown
“political realist” (M.A., Ph.D.) and a Princeton Seminary Evangelical
(M.Div.) long-interested in America’s role in the world, once serving
as a secular professor of international studies (while also a corporate
political risk consultant and risk analysis teacher) ... and then by
the grace of God a born-again Presbyterian pastor, an individual
involved heavily in street and prison ministry as well as several
typical congregational ministries. He "retired" into teaching American
and international high school students the subject of social dynamics
(the rise and fall of societies) using American and other cultures'
histories as a "laboratory" – to bring the broad focus of God and
society to the understanding of young minds.