Cocktails and Campaigns: JFK and Jackie’s Whirlwind Romance

Today’s Historic America Journal entry is the second of our two-part series on presidential love stories in preparation for our limited-run Presidential Sweethearts Tour. If these true tales capture your imagination, you’re in luck! A ticket for our Presidential Sweethearts Tour is the perfect Valentine's Day gift for the history nerd in your life. More information about the tour can be found on our website or our Eventbrite page. In our final piece for this series, we journey back in time to visit John F. Kennedy and Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.

Dolley and James: Opposites Attract

Today’s Historic America Journal entry is the first of a two-part series on presidential love stories in preparation for our limited-run Presidential Sweethearts Tour. If these true tales capture your imagination, you’re in luck! A ticket for our Presidential Sweethearts Tour is the perfect Valentine's Day gift for the history nerd in your life. More information about the tour can be found on our website or our Eventbrite page. This week, we journey back in time to visit Dolley & James Madison.

Flag Festival at Philadelphia's Betsy Ross House - Don't Miss Out

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!

The Birth of a Groundbreaking Invention...Stop

This week marks the 177th anniversary of the first ever telegraph message being sent. This message, sent between Washington D.C. and Baltimore, opened the door for the inventions of instantaneous communication we enjoy today. In order to celebrate, we dive into the history of Samuel Morse’s invention and how revolutionary it truly was.

Virtual Tour: The Lincoln Memorial

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.

Introducing Historic America's First Charleston Audio Tour

We’re pleased to announce the publication of our first tour in Charleston, South Carolina! As a GPS activated guided audio tour, Charleston 101 focuses on “must see” attractions and offers a glimpse into the rich history and storied past of this remarkable city.

Millionaires, Mansions & Moonshine: Andrew Mellon

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.

Sometimes There's A Man: Remembering Chuck Yeager

As The Big Lebowski tells us, “Sometimes there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place.” That’s Yeager - the very definition of American manhood; a rugged, whip-smart, patriotic, devoted, courageous fighter pilot who rose from humble beginnings in rural West Virginia to enlist as a teenage private in the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) and would go onto to become one of the most famous pilots in history.

Aaron KillianFebruary 12, 2021Historic America Tours, historic america, Chuck Yeager, Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian, Supersonic Flight, Bell X-1Comment

Against a Capitol Fence

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.

Welcome to the (re-vamped) Historic America Journal!

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.

The EditorsFebruary 1, 2021Historic America, Covid, covid 19, journal, Historic America journal, blog, Historic America ToursComment