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For as long as I can remember, I have always loved history.

As large and overwhelming the world is through sheer space and density of cultural ways of life, it always amazed me how it was infinitely more vast when you add to the equation how long people, the world, and the universe have existed in the realm of time as well.

In history and the humanities, we can find the roots of the world we live in today. We just might be able to find solutions to problems we face in our day-to-day lives or analyze patterns to prevent problems from the past repeating again. 

This is why I want to share my love of history with the rest of the world. Through rigorous  research, the synthesis of sources and a gripping writing style, my mission is to show the world the highlights of history that previously could only be found behind the hurdles of academic papers and monographs.  

I am a writer, editor, researcher, and licensed educator in the field of history. As an American with mixed Okinawan heritage, I moved from North Carolina to Okinawa in 2019 after graduating from Wingate University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Education. 

I am deeply interested in all forms of history around the world, especially American (both before and after 1492), European, East Asian (especially Chinese, Mongol, Manchu, Japanese and Ryukyuan), South Asian (especially India and Afghanistan), Middle Eastern, Philippine, Siberian, Central Asian, African, Turkic, Uralic, Australian, and Polynesian history. I am interested in all time periods from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period, the Industrial Era, the World Wars, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War period. I'm even interested in history before Homo sapiens themselves! 

Outside of history, I am deeply interested in languages and other parts of the humanities like religion, mythology, sociology, psychology, political science, geopolitics, economics, anthropology, archaeology, and so on. I am also a first degree black belt in Isshinryu Karate.

Come and spend time browsing the website, play some medieval music on another tab, and let's learn history.

I invite you to please contact andrewteubanks [at] gmail [dot] com for business inquiries. 

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