About Us

September 1, 2005

Contact: Info@historyplayer.com

Writer, reenactor and former Capitol Hill staffer Trey Bahm introduces Historyplayer.com.

Historyplayer.com is an interactive ezine with content that gives a fresh perspective about a different subject from history each month. The site's features include articles, reviews, games and a forum. To commemorate the end of World War II, Historyplayer.com's first month focuses on that event.

"I wanted to create a website about history with an edge to it, one that tells stories and makes people think," said Bahm (pronounced "BAM"). "Unless you were fortunate enough to have had a good teacher or professor, most folks aren't tuned in to the drama and emotions of history. The trick in presenting history has always been to preserve its drama without it becoming neither dry nor inaccurate."

Bahm holds a B.A. in history and is a lifelong student of the discipline. A veteran congressional aide, Bahm also fed his passion for history, especially American history, while living in the Washington D.C. area. Besides being eyewitness to some of the extraordinary political events of the past few years, Bahm also became a Civil War reenactor in Northern Virginia.

"When I took up reenacting, my understanding of the Civil War and life at that time took a quantum leap. I also realized that much of what went on in Washington in the 1850s and 1860s was absolutely no different than what is happening there today," Bahm related. "This is one of the things that inspired me to put together Historyplayer.com as a site that is dedicated to the true spirit of history: that human beings have struggled with the same things throughout the ages."

Bahm was most recently featured on the History Channel in Greystone Communications' "Secret Missions of the Civil War." He is a native Texan, and he and his family make their home near Dallas.