Dan and his wife Janice have been married for forty-two years, have five children and thirteen grandchildren. They have home schooled since 1993. Dan is the author of nine history books which are used across the nation in private schools and home schools. He is a graduate of George Wythe University in Cedar City, Utah in Business and Biblical Studies, and was a private school teacher for ten years. Dan started Living History in 1999 when he started writing his history books. In 2004 Dan and Jan bought Archive Publishers and Wholesome Books which they run with a lot of help from their children. Wholesome Books is a home school/private school bookstore, and under the Archive Publishers name they re-publish out-of-print LDS and non-LDS books, with 185 titles currently available. To add a little variety to his life, Dan recently retired as a driver’s education instructor after seventeen years.