The Great American History Blog

  Ancient peoples around the world have reported unidentified lights in the sky for thousands of years.   The ancients believed that the god...

  Mark Kellogg rode with Custer and wrote: “The hope is now strong and I believe, well founded, that this band of ugly customers, known as S...

  At 9:00 A.M. on May 23, 1865. a cannon boomed, signaling the beginning of the Grand Review of the victorious Army of the Potomac as it mar...

  Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in the early 1500’s.   It soon was acquired by the King of France and after hanging in various roy...

  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...