A Catch Conversation with Robert Tracy McKenzie

Robert Tracy McKenzie is professor of History and Arthur F. Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning at Wheaton College. Before joining the Wheaton faculty, McKenzie taught for twenty-years at the University of Washington, where he specialized in the history of the Civil War era. In recent years he has turned his attention to the ways in which American evangelicals have remembered their national heritage. Among other works, McKenzie is the author of The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us about Loving God and Learning from History (2013), A Little Book for New Historians (a brief primer on why and how to study history, written from an openly Christian perspective) (2018), and We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy (forthcoming in 2021).