More Than Dates & Dead People

More Than Dates & Dead People: Recovering a Christian View of History", by Stephen Mansfield, is a lively, upbeat, edgy look at history as something exciting rather than a boring list of dates to memorize. The focus is on how a Christian world-view affects one's academic and scholarly interests. "

Foreword

ix

Acknowledgements

xiii

Life in the House of Historical Horrors

1

(4)

History and the Monkeys

5

(6)

History According to the Owner's Manual

11

(12)

Back to the Future

13

(2)

Living in a Cardboard Tube

15

(3)

The Empire Strikes Back

18

(4)

Now What?

22

(1)

Armed and Dangerous

23

(14)

Seeing God

24

(1)

The Power of a Heritage

25

(4)

To See the Future

29

(2)

Escaping the ``Kingdom of Now''

31

(1)

Cleansing the Land

32

(1)

The Cloud of Witnesses

33

(2)

Restoration

35

(2)

Parachuting into the Past

37

(10)

What Is Religion?

38

(1)

What Is Culture?

39

(1)

What Is Law?

40

(2)

What Is Education?

42

(1)

What Is Art?

43

(2)

So...

45

(2)

Doing History: Reading History and Living to Tell about It

47

(54)

A Tale of Two Ships

49

(8)

Pocahontas: The Real Story

57

(7)

The Hidden Calling

64

(6)

Fire in the West: The Logan County revivals

70

(15)

Back to the Future: The Meaning of the 1960's

85

(16)

Let the Journey Begin!

101

Five Books to Get You Started

102

What to Read When You're Really Getting Serious

104

The Really Fun Stuff: learning From Historical Fiction

107

Hollywood Does History: Ten Great Films for Exploring History

110

Five Fantastic Web Sites for Learning Christian History

113

Hitting the Highways: Learning History from Travel

115

Three Films, a Magazine, and a Preacher

117

Five Helpful Organizations

119

Some Final Words

121

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