The Great American History Blog

    The Lakota Sioux were an aggressive and predatory warrior nation.  Since their adoption of the horse in the 1730s, the Sioux had becom...

 Confederate military prisons in Richmond became notorious during the Civil War.  Libby prison was for Union officers.   It was considered...

  Video Wilmer Mclean The Civil War virtually began in Wilmer Mclean’s kitchen in Manassas on July 18, 1861, when a Union shell dropped into...

  Sir James Gordon British forces routed American troops at the Battle of Bladensburg on August 24, 1814 and marched into Washington Cit...

  Sergeant Alvin C. York was one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I.   He received the Medal of Honor for leading an att...

During the Civil War, the Union outfitted hospital ships to care for the wounded.  The Hospital Transport System was run by the United State...

 Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell      In the mid-nineteenth century, sex discrimination prevented women from pursuing medicine, and those few who di...

  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...