The Great American History Blog

The Crystal Skull in the British Museum The Crystal Skull is a 19 th century con man’s scam.   In the late 19 th century, when E...

 The Smokehouse at Mount Vernon Inside the Smokehouse Each morning at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s wife, Martha, met wi...

The Superstition Mountains of Arizona, the Legend of the Lost Dutchman’s Mine, and the Peralta Stones are inextricably linked. T...

The Battle of Adwa (Adowa) In 1889 Menelik II, having defeated dynastic rivals, declared himself Emperor of Ethiopia.   In excha...

          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 ...