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Episode 5: Perspectives on History & Lenten Reading

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Did you hate studying history in school? Maybe you weren't reading the right books. Mike and Jess talk about the value of reading histories and why perspective makes a difference. They also share what they are reading for Lent. ________________________________________________ Books mentioned on this episode: 1776 by David McCullough Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam HIgginbotham The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc The Crusades by Hilaire Belloc Robert Kaplan The Civil War (series) by Shelby Foote Thomas Cahill Above All by Elizabeth Foss (Take Up & Read) Word in the Wilderness: A poem a day for Lent and Easter by Malcolm Guite Purgatory by Dante (Anthony Esolen, trans.)

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