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Toledo, Spain
Enjoying Toledo, Spain

Travel

One of the things I love most is to travel the world. I’ve been very fortunate to have visited 16 different countries, mostly…

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Salzburg, Austria

History

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At the British Museum

About Me

Hello and welcome to History Havoc. I created this site a few years ago (I had to delete the old site…

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  • Ph.D. Update

    Ph.D. Update

    If you are not aware, I am working on my Ph.D. through Liberty University. That is reason #1 why I have been absent here lately. I have so much I want to write about, but very little time. Currently I am taking 2 comprehensive exam courses. One on Early Modern Europe and the other on…

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  • Can Texas Secede?

    Can Texas Secede?

    Having lived in Texas for a long time, this is my home and I absolutely love it here. However, there is one thing that sticks in my crawl so to speak. Can we stop with the Texas secession talk? First of all, legally and constitutionally the state cannot secede. Plus it would be ludicrous. Texas…

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  • Appomattox Court House

    Appomattox Court House

    One misconception I think many people have is that the Civil War ended at a courthouse. It did not. There is a difference between court house and courthouse. The one word version is the actual courthouse where judges would hear cases. The other is a small town. Appomattox Court House is a small town in…

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  • Pickett’s Charge – Battle of Gettysburg

    Pickett’s Charge – Battle of Gettysburg

    Recently I had the chance to visit Gettysburg for the first time. This was one of the best trips I have been on in my life, partly because I got to share the experience with my father who is a huge history buff. I will save the stories from the road for another post, but…

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  • A Little on the Bynum Family

    A Little on the Bynum Family

    Having always been a huge fan of history, the history of my family interested me. Then one day when my father was cleaning out my grandparent’s house after their passing, he came across a pair of books that blew me away. The first was printed in 1916 by Jasper E. Bynum and was called The…

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  • American Christianity in early America

    American Christianity in early America

    If you were to poll many people today on where does Christianity not exist most often, I would dare to guess you would see the two most popular answers to be politics and war. But what if you asked that same question in the late 1700s or early 1800s? I feel like the answer would…

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  • Causes and End to the Great Depression

    Causes and End to the Great Depression

    Today let us take a look at the Keynesian economic theory and how it applies to the causes and end of the Great Depression. Just a quick note about the theory, in its simplest form it states that changes in a component of spending, whether investment, consumption, or governmental, causes output to change. When looking…

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  • Ty Cobb: Ballplayer, Investor, and Philanthropist.

    Ty Cobb: Ballplayer, Investor, and Philanthropist.

    Hall of Fame baseball player Ty Cobb had an interesting financial life. As one of the best players of his time, Cobb was one of the highest paid. But I want to focus on his financial life as a whole including his investments and even his philanthropy. First of all, let’s take a look at…

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  • New Video – Francis Butler Leigh and her time on a Georgia Plantation

    New Video – Francis Butler Leigh and her time on a Georgia Plantation

    Check out my latest YouTube video – just a quick bit about Francis Butler Leigh and her time on her Georgia plantation after the war. You can even see her book online at the link below. Abstract: Francis Butler Leigh was a plantation owner and former slave owner who wrote a book about her experiences…

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  • Book Review – The Billion Dollar Spy

    Book Review – The Billion Dollar Spy

    What is going on History fans! Today I wanted to talk about a book recommendation called, The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman. I am a child of the Cold War, at least the end of the Cold War. I have a lot of memories as a child in school dealing with nuclear bomb…

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