# Robert Tracy McKenzie **Summary.** Robert Tracy McKenzie is an American historian and a professor of history at Wheaton College, where he has chaired the history department. He writes on American history and on how Christian faith relates to the study and practice of history. ## Public record His books include *The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History* (2013) and *A Little Book for New Historians*. His work encourages readers to approach the past carefully and to resist using history to serve present agendas. ## Why he matters in this wiki McKenzie's writing on how Christians handle national history speaks to this wiki's interest in Christian nationalism and in the honest use of the past. His method models the difference between historical evidence and mythologized memory. ## Related - [[Christian Nationalism]]