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Celebrate Tolkien Reading Day by purchasing the newly released book Middle-earth Lore: Tolkien's Legends Revealed. Amazon.com

My new book, Middle-earth Lore: Tolkiens Legends Revealed, is now available for pre-order (ebook). It will be released in paperback and hardcover on March 25th, Tolkien Reading Day...

Has anyone seen knighfall and would they recommend it? how was it historically and how did it treat christanity?

Feudal Monarchy or Absolute Monarchy? “The feudal order, in fact, was very different from the monarchial order that replaced it [absolute monarchy] and to witch succeeded, in a still more centralized form, the order of state control that is found today.” -Regine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle...

Medieval Monarchy vs Democracy “By familiarizing oneself with other times, other eras, other civilizations, one acquires the habit of distrusting criteria of one's own time.” -Regine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle Ages Debunking the Myths Ignatius press San Francisco “The most dangerous man to...

Feudal Monarchy or Absolute Monarchy? “The feudal order, in fact, was very different from the monarchial order that replaced it [absolute monarchy] and to witch succeeded, in a still more centralized form, the order of state control that is found today.” -Regine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle...

Medieval Monarchy vs Democracy “By familiarizing oneself with other times, other eras, other civilizations, one acquires the habit of distrusting criteria of one's own time.” -Regine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle Ages Debunking the Myths Ignatius press San Francisco “The most dangerous man to...

Medieval Monarchy vs Democracy “By familiarizing oneself with other times, other eras, other civilizations, one acquires the habit of distrusting criteria of one's own time.” -Regine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle Ages Debunking the Myths Ignatius press San Francisco “The most dangerous man to...

What is the Truth About the Crusades? "Medieval historians have long known that popular culture image of the crusades has nothing at all to do with the events themselves" -Thomas Madden Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis...

Medieval Inquisitions “Our understanding of heresy and inquisition is not really in sync with the way things were in the middle ages. It has much more to do with early modern concept of Spanish inquisitions witch is a completely different thing” -Thomas Madden The Modern Scholar: The Medieval...

The Middle Ages- The Dark Ages? “Many vicious distortions and lies had entered the historical cannon with the seal of distinguished scholarly approval, so long as they reflect badly on the catholic church.” -Rodney Stark Bearing False Witness Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History...

Kickstarter page Six Empires Facebook The GameSmiths A great game made by a great family [mine] of history buffs and gamers looking for pledges. The links provide the manual to the game and short video. Also I can help answer any questions about the game. It is an easy game to pick up and...

Looking to start a total conversion mod based on the christian authors books Lord of the rings for the PC game field of Glory Empires [see Field of Glory Empires on Steam] as this game is completely modifiable. Here is the Manual to get an idea for this in depth strategy game Matrix Games -...

“No other general in the war commanded more respect and admiration from his men than George McClellan” -John Cannan The Antietam Campaign It is my opinion that General George B McClellan was the most underrated army commander of the civil war. Not because I think he was a great general or...

Lee is regarded, perhaps, more than any other general, as the greatest general of the civil war. In almost ever poll he is either first or second. I don't deny he was a brilliant general and deserves his name and much of his reputation. However I believe his shortcoming are often not spoken of...

“The literature is frequantley slanted in favor of Grant...Grants setbacks and errors in judgment are minimized or trivialized in the literature” -Thomas J Rowland George B McClellan and civil war history Kent state university press Grant is normally regarded as the best union commander, and...

I believe George Thomas is the best civil war general that most have never even heard of. Thomas never lost a battle in the entire war that he was the commander in. [Thomas was]“One of the most competent generals and army commanders on either side, and truly the most unrecognized” -John Cannan...

“The literature is frequently slanted in favor of Grant and Sherman” -Thomas J Rowland George B McClellan and Civil war History Kent State university press William Tucumseh Sherman or “Uncle Billy” in my opinion was the most overrated general of the civil war. He is usually ranked within the...

“Strange that we are so friendly at one time, when in the next moment we may be attempting to draw each other’s life’s blood.” -Tally Simpson 3rd South Carolina Volunteers “we could have settled the war in 30 minutes had it been left to us” -Confederate solider after talking with union soldiers...

Primitive weapons used in the civil war “Carried only bows and arrows, tomahawks, and war clubs” -Confederate solider of native American allies quoted in James Robertson Tenting Tonight the Soldiers life Time-Life Books The main cause of causalities in the war was not the rifled musket but...