The Great American History Blog

  Of the approximately 600,000 soldiers who died in the American Civil, fully two-thirds died from disease.   It is estimated that some 300,...

 Custer's Last Stand In 1926, to coincide with the 50 th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, William A. Graham published t...

George Armstrong Custer Is it possible to write “objective” history? Every writer is a prisoner of his/her own time and personal biases...

  The efforts of the Continental Congress to gain support for the American Revolution in Canada led to the organization of two pro-American ...

  The Southern Cross of Honor (seen in front of this grave) was created by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and is used as a s...

 The Pentagon      In the 1930s the War Department was scattered throughout dozens of buildings in Virginia , Maryland and the District.   ...

  The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) reports that the following were the top ten holiday songs of the last de...

  The native people of the American continent were the first to grow and smoke tobacco. Tobacco was first used by the Maya of Central Americ...

Richmond became a major hospital center during the Civil War.   The Moore Hospital is seen below.  Running a hospital presented many challen...

The Custom House, the first Federal building ever built in Richmond is seen below.   This building provided offices for Confederate Presiden...

  Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond, Virginia.  Richmond was the Sout...

  At the Woodrow Wilson Museum, Staunton, Virginia Woodrow Wilson returned from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 to be greeted by cheering...

  As a child, John Singleton Mosby was small, sickly and was often the target of bullying. He would respond by fighting back. During the co...

  If you have ever heard of the nation of “Fredonia”, you probably associate it with a mythical European state portrayed in the Marx Brother...