Larry Schweikart

Larry Earl Schweikart (; born April 21, 1951) is an American historian and retired professor of history at the University of Dayton. During the 1980s and 1990s, he authored numerous scholarly publications. In recent years, he has authored popular books, including A Patriot's History of the United States and 48 Liberal Lies About American History. According to professors Guy Burton and Ted Goertzel, "Schweikart and Allen are both history professors with distinguished publication records."

Early life and education Larry Schweikart was born in 1951 in Mesa, Arizona to a cattle ranching family and lived in Higley until his father Earl died in 1960. After his father's death, Larry and his mother moved to a house in Chandler, Arizona, that Earl had already purchased. As he recounted his undergraduate years: "The whole time I was racing cars and playing rock 'n roll music and paid no attention to my grades."

In 1977, exhausted by the travel schedule with Rampage, Schweikart returned to Arizona, became a middle school English teacher in Eloy, and enrolled in graduate school at Arizona State.

Career Schweikart took a one-year position at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville Richland in 1984 as instructor in U.S. history, focusing on business history. In 1985, he became an associate professor at the University of Dayton, earning a promotion to full professor in 1995. At Dayton, Schweikart taught courses on the Civil War and economic, business, and military history in the U.S. He was awarded the University of Dayton Alumni Award for Scholarship for the 1988–89 academic year.

In December 2020, President Donald Trump appointed Schweikart to the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences, which advises leaders of the Department of Education's research division.