Meet Your Instructor: Mr. Hill

Howdy, folks! My name is Mike Hill and I have had the pleasure of instructing with Barstow Community College's On-Line teaching program for several years. I have taught at the high school level and enjoy instructing on the college level. Early on in my college education, an "old salt" of a history teacher told me that history was “the telling of the truth .” This statement stuck with me all of these years because…history is the telling of the truth. Of course, Historians have fun debating whose truth is right, whose is wrong and why! It is up to the Historian to research historical sources, evaluate facts and present this information to support their argument(s). I try to give my honest best when completing any tasks and expect the same from my students.

I have an Associates of Science Degree in Technical Studies from Barstow Community College; a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies from Bakersfield State University, Bakersfield, California; I have taken numerous military history, leadership, tactics, strategy and national security studies courses during my four years in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps at San Bernardino State University, San Bernardino, California; I have a Masters of Arts Degree in American History (cum laude) from North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina; and I have a Masters of Arts Degree in American Military History, emphasis in Civil War: Land Warfare, from the American Military University, Manassas Park, Virginia. I am currently applying for admission into a Doctorate Program in Educational Leadership at the University of Phoenix, Arizona and am attempting to publish a manuscript titled: Confederate Military Operations in North Carolina During the Civil War, 1861-1865. I am also working on a manuscript for a future book, to be titled: Local Heroes, which will be about World War II. 

I enjoy being with my family, carpentry, metal detecting and traveling. I currently work full-time for the Department of Justice with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and have traveled extensively with the Bureau to different duty stations around the country.

Good luck and smooth sailing!

Mr. Hill