John has crafted extensive and informative Power Point slide shows for the Oklahoma Centennial Lecture Series addresses he is presenting to the Downtown College Consortium.  To access them, please click here.

John’s Oklahoma Centennial Lecture Series, sponsored by the Downtown College Consortium in conjunction with Oklahoma's 2007 Statehood Centennial celebration, continues. He presents “Oklahoma and the Great Depression:  Myth and Reality;” “Places Where We Cried:  The Story of the 19th-Century Cherokees,” and “Heroes of Oklahoma:  The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement and Others.”  For topics, dates, times, and locations, please click here.

The Steve Byas Book Shop hosted John for an August 4 book signing that featured all four of his books.  Thanks to Steve and the many folks from around Central Oklahoma who came, visited, and bought books!

On July 28, the Mardel Christian and Education Stores in Plano and Fort Worth, Texas, both hosted book signings for John and his novel When the Bluebonnets Come.  Special thanks to Plano Store Manager Carl Ritter and Fort Worth Store Manager Dallas King for arranging these events, where dozens of copies of the book were sold.

The Oklahoman, the largest circulation newspaper in Oklahoma and one of the five largest in the Southwest, features a color photograph and article on John’s new novel When the Bluebonnets Come on the front page of its June 21 Religion section.

Among the radio interviews on which John appears this month to discuss his novel When the Bluebonnets Come are the Randy Renner Sunrise program on 50,000-watt AM station KOKC in Oklahoma City, and Salvadore SeBasco's The Inside View program on KNLE-FM in Austin, Texas.

John delivers a memorable Commencement Address entitled "Graduation Day" to an audience of 725 people at Coram Deo Academy, where he served for years as History Chair, in Flower Mound, Texas.

On May 5, the Mardel Christian and Education Stores in Edmond and Norman, OK, respectively, hosted book signings for John and in his new novel When the Bluebonnets Come. At both sites, many friends--old and new--turned out to visit and buy the book. Special thanks to Edmond Store Manager Steve Lyons and Norman Store Manager Jerry Pennybaker for arranging these events!

John’s new novel When the Bluebonnets Come is released by Bluebonnet Press at the annual Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival. John based the book on the people and events of the land where he lived for many years in the Texas bluebonnet country. It tells the poignant and humorous remembrance of a Texas woman looking back on an eventful few months in her childhood when the unwelcome forces of the outside world invaded her idyllic country life and changed it forever. She watched her father, once a football star and now pastor of a small country church, stand alone against a world dominated by big cities, big money, and big plans for paving over pastures and forests.

John launches his Centennial Lecture Series in speaking engagements at Oklahoma City Community College and Rose State College. The Downtown College Consortium, a group of Central Oklahoma colleges and universities, selected him to deliver the series in conjunction with Oklahoma's 2007 Statehood Centennial celebration. John will present additional lectures in the months ahead at the same schools, as well as the University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City, Redlands Community College, and the Oklahoma History Center. For topics, dates, and locations, click here.

John joins some of America’s top Robert E. Lee scholars in speaking at the acclaimed Lee Bicentennial Symposium, in Arlington, Virginia.

John concludes teaching his Oklahoma History evening course in the Adult Degree Completion Program at Southern Nazarene University for this semester at the Oklahoma State Capitol. Wes Lane, former Oklahoma County District Attorney, speaks about city and county government and delivers a stirring message of seeing God’s hand in adversity, including a recent high-profile election he lost. State Representative Doug Miller leads the class on a fascinating tour of the beautiful and historic capitol building, and discusses the workings of state government. The class spends a portion of the evening sitting in legislators’ chairs in the House of Representatives chambers, hearing Doug and fellow State legislator Terry Harrison.

John's powerful and detailed examination of the Christian theory of just war, and whether America has abided by it, is posted on the acclaimed Lew Rockwell news and information website: www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/dwyer9.html

Five new audio CDs of popular lectures by John are released for sale on this site. They include Alfred  the Great: Defender of Christendom, about the peerless king who defended England from the pagan Viking hordes; Stonewall Jackson: Standing Like a Stone Wall, about the famed American soldier; The Great Revivals During the War Between the States, about how one of America’s greatest spiritual awakenings swept its armies during the country’s worst tragedy; Paul Schneider:  Apostle to the Nazis, about the German pastor Hitler feared more than any other; and Jim Elliot: Martyr to the Indians, about the legendary 20th-century American missionary.

The final three study guide exercise packages--chapters 29, 35, and 36—for The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War are posted in the Study Guide section of this site.

Two new audio CDs of popular lectures by John are released for sale on this site. They are Reconstruction or Deconstruction?, a penetrating analysis of federal government actions toward the defeated South in the post-Civil War and Reconstruction years; and Stand Watie and the Confederate Indians, a moving account of the Cherokee Indians and their experiences from before the Trail of Tears until after the War Between the States in Oklahoma.

John is named Adjunct Professor of History at Oklahoma City Community College.

John is named Adjunct Professor of History at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City.

Study guide exercises are posted for chapters 16-28 of "The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War."

The Downtown College Consortium, a group of Central Oklahoma colleges and universities, selects John to deliver their Centennial Lecture Series during the 2006-07 academic year, in conjunction with Oklahoma's 2007 Statehood Centennial celebration.

John spends two full hours live on the Iowa-based Faith and Freedom Network (www.kfffradio.org) radio talk show with Jamie Johnson.

Bluebonnet Press is pleased to announce that the respected and well-known American Vision (www.americanvision.org) organization, headed by Gary DeMar, has taken over distribution responsibilities for The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War.

Dr. Roger McGrath, distinguished author and retired professor of history (1982-1997) at UCLA, pens a splendid review of The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War in the New American magazine. Writes McGrath: "The War Between The States by John J. Dwyer, et al., is the best textbook for the high school, preparatory academy, or junior college I've ever read . . . . (It) is a stunning success. . . . the book is handsomely bound and well illustrated. If anyone is interested in a comprehensive and engaging, scrupulously fair and honest, one-volume text covering the American Civil War, its causes, conduct, and ramifications--and personalities, The War Between The States: America's Uncivil War is the one."

Study guide exercises are now posted for several more chapters--12, 14, 15, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37, and 38. We shall continue posting these, and enlarging the packages for each chapter, in the weeks and months ahead.

John narrowly missed having one of his recent lectures filmed by famed cable channel C-Span for its Book Notes program. The network scheduled the event, then was unable to secure a local film crew in time. We'll post a schedule of showings when they reschedule John. Book Notes typically plays its programs four or five times over a two-month period.

Oklahoma friends! John is coming to Oklahoma City Thursday, December 22nd for a book signing at the Oklahoma State Capitol. Hosted by State Rep. Doug Miller, the signing takes place from 3-6 p.m. in room Room 412-C of the capitol building at N. E. 23rd and Lincoln Blvd. Come see John and visit with both old and new acquaintances.

Bluebonnet Press posts the first supply of Online Study Guide material for The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War, for students and teachers. The initial posting contains study packages for all eleven chapters in Part I (Causes of the War) of the book, including chapter summaries, identification terms, completion sentences, timelines, and essay topics. Chapter quizzes are included for some chapters, and will be added for others in coming weeks, as will lists of recommended resources, suggested projects and activities, and answer keys.

John spent a full hour live on the air October 28 with Jan Mikkelson, whose "Mikkelson in the Morning" program on WHO Radio in Des Moines is perhaps the most-listened-to radio program in Iowa.

John has a new (and growing) slate of radio and personal appearances set for the fall and winter months.

Easy and quick online credit card ordering for The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War becomes available through PayPal with only a couple of clicks and a few strokes of the keyboard at www.bluebonnetpress.com.

John's long-awaited blockbuster The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War is released by Texas-based Bluebonnet Press. The full color, hardcover, 712-page saga chronicles the many causes for the nation's greatest conflict, the events and people of the war itself, and the many and important consequences of the post-war years and Reconstruction. The book features editorial contributions from educators George Grant, Steve Wilkins, Douglas Wilson, and Tom Spencer; over 530 illustrations, including the incomparable paintings of historical artist John Paul Strain; a free online study guide for students and teachers; and nearly 100 biographical features on key figures of the period from all walks of life.

Another school year begins at Coram Deo Academy, the classical and Christian, university-schedule school in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where John serves as History Chair. If that type of K-12 education, which combines 2-3 days a week of classroom instruction with home schooling the remainder of the week, interests you, and you live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, please contact Coram Deo Academy at 972/318-5222.