Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, Virginia in the 1920’s. Twelve fires in seventy years is a stunning number of blazes. Even more surprising, is that eleven of them took place in just 29 years; and, there may have...
Civil War Monument of the unknown, Arlington, Virginia. Historian, Drew Gilpin Faust, has stated that at least half of the soldiers who died in the Civil War were never identified. Past historians have suggested a lower...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, during World War two. He wears the five-star cluster of the newly-created rank of General of the Army. Yes, it is true. Most of us imagine that our war...
A crowd of children going into a movie theatre in Florida. In the early twentieth century, the average American had less than a 5th grade education. To many, memories of the Civil War were still very...
Andrew Carnegie, (in the center) was one of the leading industrialists of his time. He was drafted in the Civil War, but paid a substitute ($850.00) to serve in his place. He was not alone. ...
George Washington’s Birthplace (Wakefield) located in Westmoreland County, Virginia George Washington would have probably scratched his head in disbelief. Let’s pretend that our first President never died, and instead he has been asleep for over two...
Much of history, including that about World War II, outlines events in general terms — the big names and a summary of what happened. As always, however, the larger truth generally lies in the details. Digging...
As strange as it As strange as it may seem, the growth of Nazism had a friend in a couple of well known American auto makers. Seemingly as American as ice cream and apple pie, Ford...
In 1915 a national magazine,The American Magazine,published an article, written by the highly regarded health expert Dr. Woods Hutchinson, entitled “ Health and Horse-Power.” Dr. Hutchinson discussed how the urban areas in America had caught...