Do you enjoy history? Are you concerned about the urgency of understanding our past and its impact on our present? Do you like discovering “the real story”? Would you like to have a convenient resource for supplementing your kids’ (and your own) history education, to counter politically correct or philosophically biased agendas?

Would a convenient source of book reviews save you time in determining what you or your kids most want and need to read? Could you benefit from a source that finds books you might not otherwise ever find on your own?

At Untwist History, we just like to root around and dig up as much truth as we can and place it in as broad and sensible a context as possible. If you’re looking for a better, truer understanding of history, we’re here to do much of the digging and organizing for you.

Are you a homeschooler or a Christian schooler who needs a little help in reconciling conventional history accounts with biblical history? We have found that our research reflects and supports a more literal, biblical worldview of people and events, though such a worldview isn’t required to benefit from information found on this site.

Why Wasn’t I Taught That??

This Untwist History project started decades ago when I was in college, taking undergraduate courses in Latin American history as well as ancient and medieval history. I made some basic observations regarding pyramids in Egypt and pyramids in the Western Hemisphere and wondered, “Why do historians draw such hard and fast lines between these cultures and view the oceans as insurmountable barriers to “pre-modern” navigational skills?” There had to be communication between these peoples, I thought naively.

In the university library, I happened onto a history of the Incas written by half-Spaniard Garcilaso de la Vega, in which he recounts a story of Noah and the Flood told to him as an Incan tradition by his mother, an Incan princess. I later discovered that cultures around the world shared Flood versions and other legends and traditions, biblical and otherwise. Why wasn’t I taught that? Again, there had to be a lot of communication between these peoples worldwide, I thought naively. Why wasn’t that possibility even considered in high school and college history courses?

When I began to research the famous Plymouth Pilgrims, I wondered why I wasn’t taught about their original patent, that they were supposed to be on the Hudson River in New York (then Virginia), that the crew recognized Cape Cod from previous experience (Europeans had been fishing American waters long before Columbus), or that their disastrous experiment in communal survival quickly gave way to a much more successful system of private property and enterprise.  Why wasn’t I taught that? Even elementary school kids can understand those concepts.

We took civics and government classes in high school but I was never given anything approaching an adequate and true understanding of the purpose of the electoral college or the reasons for having state legislatures decide who would represent their state in the U.S. Senate. I was allowed the impression these procedures reflected “backward” thinking rather than a wise strategy to balance power.

Even though I was a history major in graduate school, I only recently discovered, thanks to Harlow Unger’s marvelous biography, that James Monroe, rather than Thomas Jefferson, deserves the real credit for the Louisiana Purchase, that Monroe and his wife heroically rescued Lafayette’s family during the French Revolution, and that Monroe was America’s most popular president (next to Washington), and yet Monroe is virtually ignored.

We’re here to join those who are already endeavoring to set the record straight on a variety of issues, events, and people in that part of the historic record ranging from the time of Christ to the present. This site is the “A.D.” version of They Came From Babel. Just as with TCFB, Untwist History takes a generalist approach and draws from a wide range of sources that, even if not biblically oriented, offer some valuable insights.

Let us know if you find the information enjoyable and helpful and please visit often!