Tracy McKenzie joined the History Department of Wheaton in the fall of 2010 after twenty-two years on the faculty of the University of Washington, where he held the Donald W. Logan Endowed Chair in American History. For most of his professional career, his research has focused on the effects of the American Civil War on the economy and society of the Upper South and the ways in which American evangelicals have remembered their national heritage. He is the author of One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us about Loving God and Learning from History (InterVarsity Press, 2013), and A Little Book for New Historians (IVP Academic, 2019).
Tracy McKenzie