The Great American History Blog

  Highclere Castle Where is the real Downton Abbey?   The setting for the iconic television show is Highclere Castle in Berkshire, England. ...

  Museo de Oro del Peru      When Spain conquered the Inca Empire, between 1533-1553, she came into possession of an almost endless supply o...

 Fast Mail Train    After the Civil War, railroad ownership In Virginia was consolidated and people and freight began to move seamlessly thr...

     Do ghosts from the American Civil War still walk amongst us, or are reported spectral visions and unearthly things that go bump in the ...

  Williamsburg, Virginia When we think of the Virginia of colonial times, the Virginia of Washington, Madison and Jefferson, we seldom think...

  Tecumseh William Henry Harrison, born in Charles City County, was America’s ninth president.   Harrison was also the shortest serving pres...

  The Crystal Skull in the British Museum One of the most bizarre stories coming out of Arizona’s Superstition Mountains, which is saying a ...

  In his book, Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn , Evan S. Connell tells us   “News of the Little Bighorn calamity w...

  Admiral James O. Richardson Most people believe that the American Pacific Fleet had had a long history at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by December...

  The Tombstone Merman In 1880 the remains of a “Merman” were brought to Tombstone, Arizona.   Mermen, the male counterparts of mermaids h...

  In the early 1880s, Tombstone, Arizona was a violent, chaotic, roaring, mining town.  Sudden death was commonplace, and the population of ...

Called “The Tombstone Cemetery”, but better known as the Boot Hill graveyard, this infamous Arizona burial site was used from 1878 to 1884 a...