An Arizona native, Larry Schweikart received degrees from Arizona State in Political Science and History, and the University of California, Santa Barbara in history. He taught for thirty-one years at the University of Dayton. His New York Times #1 bestseller with Michael Allen, A Patriot's History of the United States, is in its forty-third printing. He has produced a documentary film, Rockin' the Wall (2010) and written more than twenty-five books in his career. In 2017, he started the history curriculum company, the Wild World of History.

He lives in Arizona with his wife, Dee.