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The First Thanksgiving: What Makes Good History?

November 28, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 6 Comments

The dead are not dead insofar as we are bound together in the communion of saints, living and dead, and therefore our conversation cannot be limited to those who now live. Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon[1] Robert Tracy McKenzie[2]  begins  Chapter 1 of  The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History  (InterVarsity Press, 2013) with a sampling of the classroom answers he receives to the question, "What makes a good history book?"  As I continue to read … [Read more...] about The First Thanksgiving: What Makes Good History?

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: good history, history, Robert Tracy McKenzie, Thanksgiving, The First Thanksgiving

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