Welcome to my home page and thank you for your interest in my work. For me, history is more than just dates and faces to be remembered, it is about ideas and how people lived, and how individuals made a difference in making that history. My work revolves around that engagement of individuals in making history, discovering how events really took place from the point of view of the participants, and placing that experience into a broader context. My recent work is focused on the Civil War with an emphasis on the war in the West. Sherman's Praetorian Guard was awarded the Center for Archival Collections Local History Publication Award in March 2018. Hell by the Acre, published by Savas Beatie in November 2024, has won both the Richard B. Harwell Award from the Atlanta Civil War Roundtable and the Hugh G. Earnhart Award from the Mahoning Valley Civil War Roundtable.