— Histories —
JUL/12/15
The Warrior Slave's Bier — The Sorrows Of The Ancient Romans: The Gladiator And The Monster, Carlin A. Barton
JUL/08/15
‘Cursed The Pilot’ — A Sickness Of The Heart #8: The Expedition Of Francisco Hernandez
JUL/06/15
Dull Steel Knife Duels — Damien And James Attempt To Recreate Roman Scissor Combat
JUL/06/15
‘Roving, Unsettled And Indolent’ — The Settlers Of Assiniboia By Thomas Swan In Muzzleloader, May/June 2015
JUL/06/15
The Liver-Eater Reader — In Search Of A Race Warrior
JUN/25/15
The First Boxers — A Fighter’s View Of Prize-fighting From Gilgamesh To Goliath
JUN/24/15
The King Of Kings And The Lion — A Metaphoric Reading Of The Alexander Sarcophagus
JUN/23/15
Double Blade Versus Blade & Shield — Damien Using Low-line Kicks Versus James From A Set Of 2005 Steel Bouts
JUN/12/15
‘More Prey Coming Our Way’ — Demon Woman [Oni Baba] By Kaneto Shindo, 1964
JUN/11/15
The Allure Of Achilles — Taboo Men In The Age Of Lions
JUN/05/15
The Supinated Thrust — Breaking Rhythm In A Machete Duel
MAY/29/15
‘The Coast Of The Evil Battle’ — A Sickness Of The Heart #7: The Expedition Of Francisco Hernandez
MAY/29/15
‘His Horrible Labors’ — Lewis Wetzel, Dark Hero Of The Ohio By James P. Pierce
MAY/25/15
The Crooked Blade — Kukri Bouts With Damien Kestle And Cory Bracken: 2015-2013
MAY/22/15
‘The Papas’ — A Sickness Of The Heart #6: The Expedition Of Francisco Hernandez
MAY/20/15
‘Iron Men On Four-Legged Gods’ — Ninety Horses With Coats Of Mail, From Horses And Americans By Phil Strong: Appendix To A Sickness Of The Heart
MAY/15/15
‘St. Lazarus’ Sunday’ — A Sickness Of The Heart #5: The Expedition Of Francisco Hernandez
MAY/11/15
‘Under Any And All Trials’ — The Soul Of An Indian And Other Writings From Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman)
MAY/08/15
‘A Venture Toward The West’ — A Sickness Of The Heart #4: The Expedition Of Francisco Hernandez De Cordoba
MAY/04/15
‘How Could The Ancients Achieve So Much’ — ‘In Such A Short Lifetime?’ A Man Question From D.L.
MAY/01/15
The Arsenal At Your Feet — Mescaline Franklin Steps Into The Man Cave To Acquire Skull Crushing Wisdom For The Coming Stone Age
APR/22/15
‘At Our Own Cost On Credit’ — A Sickness Of The Heart #3: The Expedition Of Francisco Hernandez De Cordoba
APR/22/15
No Indians To Spare — A Sickness Of The Heart #2: The Expedition Of Francisco Hernandez De Cordoba
APR/21/15
Tierra Firme — A Sickness Of The Heart #1
APR/20/15
A Sickness Of The Heart — The Blood Gods And The Sunrise Serpent: An Adaptation Of Bernal Diaz’s The Conquest Of New Spain
APR/17/15
In The Breech — The Great Siege By Ernle Bradford
APR/17/15
‘The Gun That Killed Tecumseh’ — Masterpiece Rifles Of The Cumberland By Mel Stewart Hankla
APR/15/15
‘You Should Advise Us’ — Warriors Of The Steppes
APR/14/15
Death Of The Animal Powers — Of Lions And Men: Aesop, Androcles And The Enslavement Of Man
APR/08/15
Dueling With The Cold Steel Gladius — James And Cory Experiment With The Synthetic Blunt Sword
MAR/29/15
Footwear & Melee Tactics — A Vintage Machete Duel Between Kestle & LaFond
MAR/21/15
The Lion’s Share — The Man Who Would Be Herakles, And Masculine Freewill & Tribal Expression On The Eve Of Empire
MAR/10/15
‘Great Men’ Or 'History As God?’ — The Crackpot Author Weighs In On Our Most Influential Primates
FEB/27/15
Of Lions And Men #1 — Tribalism In The Ancient World: A Meditation On The Hellenic Perspective
FEB/18/15
Spearing Big Cats — Short Films Of Lion Kills
FEB/13/15
‘The Virtues Of A Warrior’ — Arete By Stephen G. Miller
FEB/09/15
Chapter 8: Heroes — By The Wine Dark Sea: Male Historical Figures
FEB/09/15
A Mariner’s Overview — By The Wine Dark Sea: Chapter 7: Horses & Hulls, Bookmark 2
FEB/09/15
Ox-carts, Chariots & Horsemen — By The Wine Dark Sea: Chapter 7: Horses & Hulls
FEB/09/15
Fauna — Chapter 3: Beside The Wine Dark Sea, Bookmark 3
FEB/09/15
The Sacral Landscape — Chapter 3: Beside The Wine Dark Sea, Bookmark 2
FEB/09/15
Geography & Flora — Chapter 3: Beside The Wine Dark Sea, Bookmark 1
FEB/08/15
The Irythraen Gate — Example Of Small Scale Battle, By The Wine Dark Sea: Chapter 5, Bookmark 5
FEB/08/15
Auxiliary Troop Types — By The Wine Dark Sea: Chapter 5, Bookmark 4
FEB/08/15
Assorted Barbaric Weapons & Lesser Arms — By The Wine Dark Sea: Chapter 5, Bookmark 3
FEB/06/15
‘Black Obsidian’ — Making A Northern Paiute Bow And Arrow Set By Billy Berger In Primitive Archer, August 2014
FEB/06/15
The Hoplite Panoply — By The Wine Dark Sea: Chapter 5, Bookmark 2
FEB/04/15
Panoply — By The Wine Dark Sea: Chapter 5; Equipment, Armor And Weapons
FEB/02/15
Rose-Fingered Dawn — By The Wine Dark Sea: Chapter 1; In The Shadow Of ‘The Poet’
FEB/02/15
The Song Of Hybrias — Chapter 2: By The Wine Dark Sea
FEB/02/15
Name Building Glossary — By The Wine Dark Sea
FEB/02/15
Cosmology — By The Wine Dark Sea: Chapter 11; Calendars & Sacred Appointments
JAN/30/15
‘Myths Aside’ — Forgotten Martial Arts Of Great Britain By Adam Manuel, In Black Belt Magazine, Feb/Mar 2015
JAN/27/15
‘Tom And Jerry In Africa’ — Masi Hunting Lions With Sharp Sticks
JAN/26/15
Heroines: 650-600 B.C. — Chapter 9: By The Wine Dark Sea
JAN/20/15
The Viking Shield Wall — A Man Question From Adam
JAN/18/15
Slavery In Archaic Hellas — By The Wine Dark Sea, Slavery
JAN/18/15
Ancient Money & Modern Equivalents — By The Wine Dark Sea, Currency
JAN/11/15
The Queen Of Weapons — By The Wine Dark Sea, Chapter 4: Swords And Usage
JAN/11/15
'To Spite A Cruel Alien World' — The Most Unapologetically Masculine Thing I Have Written
JAN/04/15
The Truth About Amazons — By The Wine Dark Sea, Chapter 6: Centaur & Amazon
JAN/02/15
Bones Jones Versus Crow Killer — A Man Question From David
DEC/31/14
Moline & Lysippe — Chapter 10: An Undated Tribal Curse
DEC/31/14
Appendix — Chronologies
DEC/31/14
By The Wine Dark Sea — Researching A Historical Fantasy
DEC/21/14
‘Find The Cornerstone’ — Incubus Of Your Sacred Emasculation: Chapter 8, A Select Anagogical Impression Of Gilgamesh, Conclusion
DEC/19/14
Erasure Of Honor—Pacified Past — Incubus Of Your Sacred Emasculation: Chapter 7, Bookmark 6, On Editing The American Soul
DEC/18/14
Defining Tribalism — Incubus Of Your Sacred Emasculation: Appendix
DEC/17/14
Honor In The Odyssey — Incubus Of Your Sacred Emasculation: Chapter 7, Bookmark 4, On The Antiquity Of Honor
DEC/17/14
Honor In The Iliad — Incubus Of Your Sacred Emasculation: Chapter 7, Bookmark 3, Interplay In Epic Poetry
DEC/17/14
The Silence Of Men — A Talk On Native American War Fighting Methods Of The Eastern Woodlands
DEC/17/14
‘Liver-Eatin’ Versus Sam Grant — Incubus Of Your Sacred Emasculation: Chapter 7, Bookmark 2, On The Interplay Of Honor
DEC/14/14
The Logic Of Honor — Incubus Of Your Sacred Emasculation: Chapter 6
NOV/19/14
Holding That Well-Stained End Of The Stick — The 10 Worst Ancient Military Jobs: #5 Thru #1
NOV/19/14
Calone Dmos — When Heroes Fought #6
NOV/18/14
‘Eating The Steel Hammer’ — Wladimir Klitschko Versus Kubra Pulev As An Archaic Boxing Study
NOV/10/14
Beer-Drinker — Alcohol And Fisticuffs From Gimilninurta To Bobby Chyez
NOV/04/14
‘The Remains Of Our Civilization’ — The Duel: A History By Robert Baldick
OCT/31/14
Cherndon And The Gamekeeper — When Heroes Fought #5
OCT/17/14
‘Iskander The Killer’ — Ancients Behaving Badly: Alexander The Great
SEP/23/14
‘The Boldest Stroke’ — The Attack On Zeigler’s Station, 1792, By Paul Clements
SEP/23/14
‘An Unrelenting Barbarian’ — One Man, Two Worlds, And An Undeserved Reputation: The Life And Times Of Simon Girty By Mark Sage
SEP/23/14
‘Do Not Tamely Submit’ — The Siege Of Fort Randolph By Matt Wulff
SEP/15/14
The Leopards Strike Back! — Apes, Don’t Leave Your Sickle-spade At Home
SEP/15/14
Kicking Endangered Ass — Or, My Mom Is Tougher Than Your Endangered Species You Tree-hugging Liberal Journalist
SEP/15/14
Punchbuggy Red — 40,000 Years From Home: Chapter 2, Bookmark 1
AUG/25/14
‘God Made Men, Not Lineages’ — The Extinction Of Islam In Western Europe By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
AUG/13/14
‘Take Pleasure In Doing It’ — Religious Leader Gives A Beheading Seminar
AUG/11/14
The Number Of The Hero — An Excerpt From The First Boxers
JUL/27/14
‘Always Existing By Nature’ — The Wars Of The Ancient Greeks By Victor Davis Hansen
JUL/22/14
‘The Adults Must Be Crazy’ — 40,000 Years From Home: Chapter 1, One Boy’s Wakeup Call
JUL/18/14
‘The Pain Of Being Human’ — War Before Civilization: The Myth Of The Peaceful Savage By Lawrence H. Heeley
JUL/18/14
‘Tool Theory’ — Improvised Hunting Weapons By Dave Canterbury
JUL/18/14
Handball Training — The Handball Trainer In Ancient Boxing
JUL/17/14
40,000 Years From Home — Part 1: The Bones Of Our Collective Soul, An Exploration Of Human Aggression
JUL/13/14
Feminist S&M Fest In Sandals — 300: Rise Of An Empire, A Shockingly Bad Movie
JUL/12/14
‘Their Appalling Conduct’ — Treachery In Tripoli By Richard Tada
JUL/10/14
Regalia — A 75-page Testament To The Devolution Of Experimental/Historic Weaponry
JUL/10/14
‘The Contact Weaponry Holy Grail’ — Is This Suit The Answer?
JUL/03/14
In The Reign Of Stupor Mundi — The Devil’s Horseman: The Mongol Invasion Of Europe By James Chambers
JUN/23/14
Mother Of Scalps — When Heroes Fought #4
MAY/05/14
‘Hats In The Ring’ — The Manly Art By Elliot J. Gorn
APR/23/14
The Black Foot — [Updated With Critical Notes] When Heroes Fought #1: A Story Of Liver-Eating Johnson
APR/23/14
When Heroes Fought — The Weekly Nonfiction Combat Serial
APR/03/14
Advent And Sundown — Grace-speaker #1
FEB/26/14
James Anderson’s Son — A Short Defiant Life
FEB/04/14
‘From Hell’ — Valhalla Rising By Nicolas Winding Refn & Roy Jacobsen, Starring Mads Mikkelsen
JAN/22/14
‘Horatius At The Bridge’ — The Roman Army By Osprey Publishing, With Stephan Turnbull And Angus McBride
JAN/22/14
Men Of The Silent Land — Spartan Reflections By Paul Cartledge
JAN/22/14
300 Flying Freaks — Context For The Upcoming Spartan Fantasy
DEC/11/13
Sex, Violence & Horses — Chariot By Arthur Cotterell
NOV/19/13
The Most Beautiful Book I Own — Mystic Warriors Of The Plains By Thomas E. Mails
NOV/04/13
‘A Temporary Place’ — Red Gold: The Conquest Of The Brazilian Indians, 1500-1760, By John Hemming
NOV/04/13
The Viking Hammerlock — Dark Age Dating Lore From Your Extraterrestrial Wingman
The Will Of Heaven — The Wrath Of The Khans By Dan Carlin
‘Not Willing To Lose’ — Jon Jones And Alexander Gustafson As A Pankration Study
From Otzi To Industrial American Zen — The Book Of Swords By Hank Reinhardt
The Lion Of The Sand — Agony And Immortality: Chapter 1
Agony And Immortality — The Rise And Fall Of The Ancient Boxers: 1700 B.C. To A.D. 551
The Primitive Throwing Stick — A Weapon From My Stone Age Youth
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