The Great American History Blog

Candidate Lincoln Some regard the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as the least qualified and most divisive president...

The Civil War Wedding Esther Alden expressed the attitude of many young women in the South as the war progressed, “One looks at a ma...

From 1791-1859, the island of Haiti made three separate attempts at establishing monarchical government. Slaves rose against their Fre...

Arlington National Cemetery was segregated until 1948.  Veterans of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) were buried in Section 27....

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” is a rhetorical conceit, or what historians call a “meta-narrative”...

Confederate President Jefferson Davis (1861) Apparently the news media has been in the habit of producing “fake news” for a very...

Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won , New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995 Richard Overy asks the question: Why did the Allies win...

Dan Sickles Daniel Sickles, New York Assemblyman, well known lady’s man, and rising star in the Democratic political machine, marri...

Civil War Graves of Northern Virginia

Sherlock Hound recommends: The Sherlock Holmes Book of Wines and Spirits Edward VII, while still Prince of Wales, is credited wi...

Sherlock Hound Recommends The Sherlock Holmes Book of Wines and Spirits   Dr.  John H. Watson, late of Her Majesty’s Army Medica...

Edward Dickinson Baker (1811 – 1861) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator from Oregon...

In October, 1861, Union forces tried to cross the Potomac River near Leesburg, Virginia and were disastrously repulsed on the steep ...

Lost Treasures and Wonders By the time he was thirty two, Alexander the Great had conquered almost all of the then known world and...

Lost Treasures and Wonders In 1910, workmen digging a well in Antioch , Syria , spotted the gleam of shining metal in the sunlight...