“In Punic Wars & Culture Wars, Ben House has written an anthology of essays about history, historians, and culture. Each essay draws upon House’s broad scope of readings by noted scholars, infused with an admixture of his own distinctly biblical perspective and engaging, dry, Southern wit, with a welcome lack of political correctness. If each of his essays was analogous to a choice wine, then Ben House is an experienced connoisseur who brings forth an abundance of vintage samplings from a well-stocked cellar. Like choice wine, the book is hard to set down once you’ve tasted it.”

Patch Blakey,
Executive Director, Association of Classical & Christian Schools

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. The Importance of Being Irrelevant 2. Punic Wars and Culture Wars 3. Classical Christian Education: A Sampling of Some History 4. History After Grammar School: Teaching Jr. High 5. That Bully Sandie Pendleton HISTORIANS & HISTORY TEACHERS 6. Eusebius-Father of Church History 7. Augustine and The City of God 8. Another Christopher, Another Christ-bearer 9. The Making of a History Teacher 10. Goads and Nails: Reformed Influences 11. Otto Scott and the Sacred Fools 12. Did You Hear the One About the Three Historians? WESTERN CIVILIZATION: CHRISTENDOM 13. Greek to All of Us 14. It Takes a Monk to Save a Civilization 15. Some Not So Good Ole Days 16. The Great Siege: Then and Now 17. Light on the Enlightenment 18. The Crooked Road from Darwin to Hitler 19. The Saved Generation AMERICAN HISTORY-A CALVINIST'S INTERPRETATION 20. The Protestant Reformation-American History, Chapter One 21.The Reformation in America 22. The Presbyterian War 23. 1776 and Washington's Crossing 24. A Southern Perspective 25. The Greater Depression 26. The Legacy of Francis Schaeffer AFTERWORD An Annotated Bibliography Index