A few months ago my wife Molly & I took a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Israel as part of an amazing journey with the Israel Collective. These are my journal entries over the course of the trip. Today’s post is the sixth installment. More to come!
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A few months ago my wife Molly & I took a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Israel as part of an amazing journey with the Israel Collective. These are my journal entries over the course of the trip. Today’s post is the fifth installment. More to come!
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A few months ago my wife Molly & I took a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Israel as part of an amazing journey with the Israel Collective. These are my journal entries over the course of the trip. Today’s post is the fourth installment. More to come!
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A few months ago my wife Molly & I took a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Israel as part of an amazing journey with the Israel Collective. These are my journal entries over the course of the trip. Today’s post is the third installment. More to come!
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A few months ago my wife Molly & I took a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Israel as part of an amazing journey with the Israel Collective. These are my journal entries over the course of the trip. Today’s post is the second installment. More to come!
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A few months ago my wife Molly & I took a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Israel as part of an amazing journey with the Israel Collective. These are my journal entries over the course of the trip. Today’s post is the first installment. More to come!
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This week marks the 100th anniversary of DC’s infamous “Knickerbocker Storm”. Our friend & colleague Larry Clark at Federal City Private Tours, shares the story in a special piece for the Historic America Journal.
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This marks the first time in almost a century that the general public has been allowed to walk on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Plaza and pay their respects on ground that is typically reserved for the sentinels alone. Naturally, the Historic America team seized the opportunity.
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A new VLOG series for your enjoyment! Today Aaron visits Washington, DC’s beautiful FDR Memorial and talks about the WWII room along with the symbolism behind FDR’s statue.
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All this week, our friends at Philadelphia’s historic Betsy Ross House are bringing back their popular Flag Festival (Sunday, June 13 through Saturday, June 19). If you’re planning on being in Philadelphia this week (or perhaps you’re there already) give them a visit!
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On this day in 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s Corps of Discovery departed from St. Louis into the unknowns of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase territory. After a year of preparation and planning which had been prompted by President Thomas Jefferson himself, the most famous expedition in American history began.
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In today’s Journal entry, we spotlight another fascinating stop on our new Millionaires, Mansions & Moonshine tour. At the iconic Heurich House, we tell stories about a dynamic immigrant turned business tycoon, the art of brewing, massive fires, World War I and spontaneous fermentation. OH MY!
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On Historic America’s Millionaires, Mansions and Moonshine tour one of our favorite stops-along-the-way is all about big money, big corruption and bootlegged liquor.
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We have a new YouTube series here at Historic America! Our Virtual Tour episodes began last week with the FDR Memorial and continue this week with a look at perhaps the most famous DC landmark of all - the Lincoln Memorial.
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Today is the 246th anniversary of, “The Shot Heard Round the World” - otherwise known as the beginning of the American Revolution at the battles of Lexington & Concord on April 19th, 1775. Over sixty years later the event would be immortalized in verse by American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson with a poem entitled Concord Hymn. It goes a little something like this …
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Historic America is excited to relaunch its Millionaires, Mansions, & Moonshine tour this upcoming weekend. The tour is a journey through all the splashy scandals and outrageous misbehavior of DC’s uber wealthy from the Gilded Age through Prohibition. It’s centered in DuPont Circle; a millionare’s enclave filled with amazing mansions of a bygone era. One of our favorite characters on the tour is Andrew Mellon - the famous art collector, businessman, and US Treasury Secretary who loomed large on the DC scene. Today’s entry is a look behind-the-scenes at one of our tour stops.
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Thank you to everyone who voted in last week’s poll. The results are in and the next stop in our A Place In Time podcast will be Revolutionary War era Philadelphia! To whet your appetite, here’s a list of the places we’ll be featuring …
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The recent push to erect a permanent fence around the United States Capitol building in response to the insurrection of January 6th is a bad idea. It is a manifestly bad, ill-considered, knee-jerk, destructive idea which would do real harm to the American republic.
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Welcome back. We’re excited to share the American story with you. History has a great deal to teach us if we are willing to learn. Plus it’s fascinating and fun! Especially American history.
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