Carl Trueman is the Dean of Faculty and professor of historical theology and church history at Westminster Theological Seminary. He blogs at Reformation 21. His book Minority Report is a collection of various articles and blog posts. As a foreign national he offers some great critiques of American culture; this alongside his pleas for a healthy love of church history make the book a good read. I would recommend you read his blog first to sample. If you buy the book I would advise you to read section 2 first as I think it he more enjoyable and accessible part of the book.
Yet evangelicals in our anti-historical mode seem prone to one of the two tendencies noted above: an idolatry of the new and the novel, with the concomitant disrespect for anything traditional; or nostalgia for the past which is little more than an idolatry of the old and the traditional. Both are disempowering: the first leaves the church as a free-floating, anarchic entity which is doomed to reinvent Christianity anew every Sunday, and prone to being subverted and taken over by any charismatic (in the non-theological sense!) leader of group which cares to flex its muscle; the second leaves the church bound to its past as its leaders care to write that past and thus unable to engage critically with her own tradition. Humble and critical engagement with history is thus imperative for history, and we would be arrogant simply to ignore the past as irrelevant; critical, because history has been made by sinful, fallen, and thus deeply fallible human beings, and thus is no pure and straightforward revelation of God. It is this balance of humility and criticism that we must strike if we are to truly benefit from history.
No Other Boast 