The Great American History Blog

The Duke Street Slave Pen (Now the Offices of the Urban League)      Alexandria, Virginia was a major center for the domestic...

The Falls Church The Falls Church , the church for which the city is named was first built in 1734. The present-day brick church...

Centreville in the Civil War On July 16, the great Union army, marched out of Washington City to meet the Confederates at Manassas J...

Under Construction 1922 - 1932 Sitting high atop Shuter’s Hill in Alexandria, Virginia, once considered as the site for the U.S...

The Cotton Factory The Union Army operated five prisons in Alexandria, Virginia during the Civil War.   The Mount Vernon Cotton ...

In 1838, two Catholic families donated a tract of land near what is now Fairfax Station, Virginia in hopes of having a church built and a...

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 1921 On March 4, 1921, Congress approved the burial of an unidentified American serviceman from Wo...

Construction of Memorial Bridge ( view from the Lincoln Memorial)      The 1930s saw the construction of two new bridges acros...

The Long Bridge The Long Bridge, the ancestor of the five bridges which are now collectively known as the 14 th Street Bri...

Portrait of the The Duke of Wellington In the James Bond movie thriller, Dr. No , when Bond is taken to Dr. No’s palatial lair...

The tomb of George Washington The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association took over operation of George Washington’s estate at Mou...

Thomas Posey Thomas Posey: An Illegitimate Son of George Washington?          Thomas Posey lived a life of public service.  Po...

      Weather information goes back a long time in Virginia, thanks to record keeping by observers such as George Washington, James Ma...

Dust Storm      Few things motivate politicians like impending doom.  One of the most peculiar natural phenomena to strike the W...