The Great American History Blog

Weaver's Needle Legend tells of a fabulous mine in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains. So alluring is the prospect of unlimi...

Grave of the Dutchman Pioneer and Military Cemetery in Phoenix Sorting out fact from fiction is the great challenge for a...

The Exchange Hotel: Gordonsville, Virginia Gordonsville Virginia’s Exchange Hotel opened in 1860 and provided an elegant stoppi...

                                                                                  Arizona Gold Although the story of the Lost Dutchma...

The ukulele is one of the world's most popular instruments.  The ukulele evolved from several small guitar-like instr...

The Cienfuegos Choir, Cuba El Himno de Bayamo  (The Bayamo Anthem) is the  national anthem  of  Cuba . The anthem was first per...

On March 13, 1997, Arizona experienced one of the largest mass UFO sightings in history, the so called Phoenix Lights. Lights of va...

The Skeleton Cave Massacre  was the first principal engagement during the 1872 Tonto Basin Campaign in Arizona conducted by the U....

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...