The Great American History Blog

"Stonewall" Jackson      On July 21, 1861, Federal artillery sent shells showering over raw Confederate troops at Manass...

     Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign began with the Battle of the Wilderness and continued through Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and on...

     THE NEW YORK TIMES reported the following incident in October, 1926 concerning treasure in Burlington, New Jersey:       "...

     When famed Confederate raider John S. Mosby rode out of Fairfax Court House in March 1863 he took with him a captured Union general...

     April 2, 1865 was a Sunday, and in Richmond Jefferson Davis was at church.  In the midst of the services a courier arrived with a mes...

On August 13, 1812 Major General Isaac Brock and a British force of 400 regular and militia troops supported by 700 lightly armed Native ...

Despite the best efforts of the clergy, European travelers during the second half of the eighteenth century often commented on the widesp...

     After World War I the British Empire was at the height of its world-wide power. The rivalry between the United States and Great Brita...

The grave of the Female Stranger, in Alexandria, Virginia, remains a place of romance and mystery.  In 1816, a young couple arrived in...

The production of cotton in the Deep South demanded labor, and with the termination of the African slave trade, this demand for labor fuel...

     John Carlyle of Alexandria, Virginia stands out as a kind of “representative” man of the colonial period in Virginia.    Born in 1720...

Dancing was an important courting ritual among the wealthy. It was considered a good way to determine a potential marriage partner’s physi...

Washington’s relationship to slaves was that of a straightforward businessman,   Washington insisted on turning a profit from his slaves. ...

According to Nathaniel Philbrick, in his book The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the LittleBighorn , George Armstron...

On April 24, 2014, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed a broad expansion of gun carrying rights into law, tacitly admitting that law enfo...

Norse mythology describes the Battle of Heodenings, where two phantom armies fight for all eternity, the dead rising daily to renew the f...

Were the Indians better armed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?  Yes and no says Richard Allan Fox Jr., author of Archaeology,History, ...

What is the interaction of history, politics, and the movies? My titles on Amazon My titles at Barnes & Noble Download F...

Success leaves clues.   So does failure.   Some of history’s best known commanders are remembered not for their brilliant victories but fo...

Custer’s Last Stand: Portraits in Time Showdown at Little Big Horn by Dee Brown (1964)      Dee Brown was a novelist and ...