“I need something from the attic,” my wife said to me the other morning as I was beginning my assault on the day’s crowded to-do list....

My wife and I recently took a short trip to relax and celebrate our wedding anniversary. We went to the Smoky Mountains, where we...

I just signed a contract with TouchPoint Press for publication of my book Evangelism and Expulsion: Missionary Work Among the Cherokees...

The Korean War has often been called America’s “forgotten war.” People remember World War II and Vietnam, but sandwiched between those...

Throughout much of America’s military history, its strategies of warfare have been based to varying degrees on the teachings of three...

Some (dare I say most?) history textbooks present “the big picture,” painting a broad impression of what took place in a particular...

[From Combat! Spiritual Lessons from Military History by Dennis L. Peterson, available on Amazon at http://ow.ly/ZXQ350xX9mx] #writing...

“The transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next, Sun Tzu taught, was the key to long-term military success. . . . [The...

Be sure to check out Part 1 of the featured article about this book on Southern Writers magazine’s Suite T blog this Friday at...

Yesterday’s cache of e-mails brought one from my publisher, TouchPoint Press. That in itself is not surprising, given the soon release of...

Don’t you just hate it when you buy (or buy into) something that has been highly touted but once you get it doesn’t meet your...

Often, we cannot truly appreciate someone or what they have experienced or done until we’ve walked the proverbial mile in their shoes. In...

For fifteen years, we had sped past the place just off I-95 in Pooler, Georgia. Every time we had driven to visit my in-laws in Florida...

“We want to live in the present,” he said, “and the only history that is worth [anything] is the history we make today.” Sadly, that...

Happy New Year to all the readers and followers of this blog. A new year is also an opportunity to evaluate what was done in the past and...

As we approach the Veterans Day weekend (and the actual date on Sunday, November 11), we owe a great debt of gratitude to everyone who is...

Whew! It’s finally over. We’ve survived yet another election cycle with all the now-all-too-familiar and ubiquitous yard signs, robo...

Recently, I’ve been reading a little [DRUM ROLL, PLEASE!] fiction, and old fiction at that. Few people today recall the author or his...

It’s usually the little things in life that make the difference. Perhaps we can’t see the significance, potential, or danger of such...

At the heart of the study is the U.S. citizenship test of basic facts about our nation’s history. Among the findings of the study are...