As many of you know, I spent the last weekend in PA for History Camp Valley Forge. The Saturday History Camp event was fantastic, and it...

In 2022 I visited two railroad museums on the East Coast. The first was the B&O Railroad Museum, and the second was the Railroad Museum...

The Battle of Chancellorsville 30 April - 6 May 1863 By the Spring of 1863, the Union Army was on its third general and lost some key...

Ah, yes, Lizzie Borden–America's favorite...nursery rhyme? On a hot August day in 1892, Fall River, MA, landed on the map when two...

In January, I spent a day in Fall River, MA. one of the places I visited was Battleship Cove. Battleship cover is home to several US...

Registration for History Camp Valley Forge has officially opened! For those unfamiliar with History Camp, History Camp was founded in...

Hard to imagine another year is ending, but here we are, saying goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023. Do you remember, as a kid, trying to...

As the country continued to fall into a deep depression, Rockefeller began building an entire complex that expressed the highest ideas of...

In November - December of 2021, we marked the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I did a series of special postings highlighting events...

In October of 1962, the World was on the brink of World War III. While some Americans were aware of heightened tensions between the...

Little Dame spent most of her grade school years not being a fan of reading. I tried so many books that I thought were interesting,...

240 years ago, on August 7, 1782, General George Washington created the Badge of Military Merit. An award open to only enlisted men,...

Today, Colleges and Universities named after Founders are trying to reconcile the incredible accomplishments of their namesakes with the...

The Battle of Midway is one of my favorite battles in the Pacific Theater for a straightforward reason--it proves the importance of good...

My visit to the American Heritage Museum Have I told you lately that I love... the American Heritage Museum? It fills my heart with...

It has been ages since I visited Philadelphia. The last time I was there, the Museum of the American Revolution did not exist yet, but I...

The more I travel along the East Coast, the more I am amazed to see how the "Founding Fathers" influenced our world. For example, I...

The loss of our first aircraft carrier came months after Pearl Harbor, but she was reborn.

Mount Vernon is one of the most iconic historic sites in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Privately owned, Mount Vernon strives to build a...