The Great American History Blog

          George Armstrong Custer William W. Belknap was a Civil War Union Brigadier General, and later served as Secretary of ...

Napoleon Napoleon’s signature two-cornered hats, known as a “bicorne,” were common among military men of the early 1800s.   Nap...

George Armstrong Custer Dr. Charles Hofling, a psychiatrist actively interested in western Americana, wrote the first full-length...

Treasure Map Legend tells of a fabulous mine in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains. So alluring is the prospect of unlimited wealth...

Bill Pickett William M. “Bill” Pickett was the most famous African American rodeo performer of all time, and the first black co...

John Parke "Jacky" Custis Washington’s step son, John Parke “Jacky” Custis was destined to inherit his late father’s ...

"Patsy" George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis on January 6, 1759.   He was 26, she was 27.   Washington sud...

"George Washington's Cook" Hercules Hercules was born in 1754, and came to Mount Vernon in 1767 as part of ...

On February 22, 2019, we celebrate the 287 th anniversary of George Washington’s Birthday.   Have a piece of cherry pie in honor of th...

Vivian Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara In 1936, a young former reporter for the Atlanta Journal published her one and only novel,...