{"id":12897,"date":"2019-10-09T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2019-10-09T08:44:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:44:25","slug":"brief-review-of-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12897","title":{"rendered":"Brief Review of History Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>SOME TRADITIONAL<\/strong>\u00a0Christian publishers don\u2019t do much in history. After years of reading overstatements from both left and right concerning America\u2019s founding, I enjoyed the calm and thorough analysis of Mark David Hall\u2019s\u00a0<em><strong>Did America Have a Christian Founding?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(Thomas Nelson, 2019). Those who read minds and extrapolate diaries may still fight over questions of sincerity and personal faithfulness, but Hall clearly shows what\u2019s most important: that Christian ideas profoundly influenced the Founders, and through them all of us. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>World <\/em>Editor in Chief Marvin Olasky offers <a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2019\/09\/pages_of_providence\">many quick evaluations of new history books<\/a> in this week&#8217;s issue, pointing out trends from select publishers like the above. He notes  Mary Grabar\u2019s\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2AXvmjM\">Debunking Howard Zinn<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, which we <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12733\">highlighted <\/a>earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOME TRADITIONAL\u00a0Christian publishers don\u2019t do much in history. After years of reading overstatements from both left and right concerning America\u2019s founding, I enjoyed the calm and thorough analysis of Mark David Hall\u2019s\u00a0Did America Have a Christian Founding?\u00a0(Thomas Nelson, 2019). Those who read minds and extrapolate diaries may still fight over questions of sincerity and personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12897\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brief Review of History Books<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[1215,1790],"class_list":["post-12897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","tag-history","tag-marvin-olasky"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}