Telling Past's Present
Author Historian Storyteller
“ If you think about it, no one ever lived in the past....They lived in the present. The difference is it was their present, not ours. They were caught up in the living moment exactly as we are, and with no more certainty of how things would turn out than we have.
- David Mccullough
My Story
I like checklists. I need them. I like the feeling of accomplishment when it's complete. In fact, sometimes I will add an item I've already finished, just for the satisfaction of striking a line through it. Even as a child I made checklists. Mental, uncodified to-do lists, actually. When I was very young I remember setting three life goals. I would be a husband and a father. I was going to college. And I would be an author. Looking back now, years later, I find much gratification in being able to strike dark, heavy lines through each.
I am an author and educator in the Hoosier state, having earned a B.A. in History from Saint Joseph’s College and an M.A. in History from Indiana State University. Before joining the ranks of secondary education, I taught as an adjunct professor of history and political science at Indiana State University and Oakland City University. In 2018 I was selected to serve on the board of directors of the Indiana Bar Foundation, and have been nationally honored for my commitment to and achievements in civic education. As an author, I have written pieces for Civil War Historian and The Weekly Standard, and am currently finishing a biography of Hannah Milhous Nixon, the mother of our thirty-seventh president. Presently, I teach United States history and government in Bedford, Indiana where I reside with my wife and two children.
