As a historian, I spend a great part of my waking hours thinking about the passage of time. At the heart of thinking historically is the realization that none of us lives in a vacuum. Humanly...
https://faithandamericanhistory.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/remember-that-we-live-in-time/
Another year is winding down, and that almost always puts me in a somber mood. Unlike the revelers who’ll be tooting their noisemakers in Times Square three days from now, I have always thoug...
If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you know that in past years I’ve bombarded readers all November long with essays on the history of Thanksgiving, most of them drawn from my book The...
If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you know that in past years I’ve bombarded readers all November long with essays on the history of Thanksgiving, most of them drawn from my book The...
If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you know that in past years I’ve bombarded readers all November long with essays on the history of Thanksgiving, most of them drawn from my book The...
https://faithandamericanhistory.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/why-the-pilgrims-really-came-to-america-2/
Before Veteran’s Day is over, I thought I would repost two passages from my commonplace book that always come to mind on this day. Both come from Wendell Berry’s marvelous novel Hannah Coul...
Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day, and I want to take this opportunity to pay tribute to my father, Edwin McKenzie. Dad graduated from high school in the spring of 1941 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy no...
https://faithandamericanhistory.wordpress.com/2017/11/10/a-veterans-day-tribute-to-my-father-2/
Yes, I’m still alive. I hope to return to semi-regular posting with the new year, but it occurred to me just now that Thanksgiving is only two and a half weeks away, so I thought I would take t...
https://faithandamericanhistory.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/great-holiday-reading/
Hello! If you are a regular subscriber to this blog, you know that I have been on sabbatical this year and that my posts have been few and far between. I am looking forward to interacting wit...
The World War Two Memorial I was back in Washington, D.C. last week and had the privilege of visiting the World War Two Memorial there. If you haven’t visited it before, it’s an impressive ...