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.

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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.)