The Great American History Blog

Today’s partisan bickering, even a Congressman hooting “You lie” at the President, seems mild compared to some of the political feuds of ...

The Confederate treasury could probably have raised more gold and silver from the population if it had embarked on a vigorous policy of tax...

Alexandria and Northern Virginia were the first areas to feel the fury of the Civil War. Alexandria, Virginia was the longest occupied Sou...

The movies were an important cultural bridge, mediating the immigrant’s transition into broader American culture. The movies were a collect...

The Principles of Scientific Management (Forgotten Books) By Frederick W. Taylor The so called notion of “Taylorism” underlined the cl...

Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture By Werner Solors Sollors uses American literature/culture to explain the co...

Scott’s book on gender points out the very fragile nature of “how we know what we know.” Scott points to language as the way in which peo...

In the 1940s, Edward Rowe Snow of Marshfield, Massachusetts searched for the treasure of Captain James Turner, “The King of Calf Island”. H...

As communications and national maritime strength grew piracy withered. Still, as late as 1813 three thousand acts of piracy were reported i...

Link to: The Confederate Woman: Soldier and Spy Even before Virginia became part of the Confederacy, Northern Virginians realize...

Link to: The Gilded Age and Revolution There was a mandate for change in the Gilded Age, but no agreement on what that change should b...

Amazon.com link to: Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen by Christopher Capozzola In 1917 th...

THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN “Incentive is not ordinarily part of an infantryman’s life. For him there are no 25 or 50 missions to be completed ...

This video of a slave auction site in St. Louis, Missouri raises the question, “Should we remember history or move on?" Why do we stud...

CSS Stonewall The Confederacy almost turned the naval balance of power around when it was the first to commission an operational ironcla...

Link to: The Gilded Age and Revolution In the early 20th century, the premise of left wing radical Eugene Debs’ ideology rested upon i...

“Too much cannot be said against the men of wealth who sacrifice everything to getting wealth. There is not in the world a more ignoble cha...

There was more to the American Civil War than just battles and generals. Millions of ordinary people were doing ordinary things. Some of th...

In 1943 Americans realized that paying their taxes was a patriotic duty to be done in support of the common good. “There is a mysterious ...

John Brown The culminating event of the 1850s was John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. To white Virginians, ...