The Yacht Club

Film footage from WWI that has been cleaned, upscaled, increased in framerate, colorized, etc. Apologies if this is boring to you. I saw ...

  Ever since I reported Jabez Rockwell's powder horn as missing from Valley Forge , I know everyone has been on pins and needles waiting...

   Happy Birthday to Glenn Miller who was born this day in 1901. When the G.I.s of World War II had a night on the town and filled the danc...

  In my life I have visited Valley Forge countless times but one day it struck me that none of those visits had been in the Winter, and Wint...

 

Why do Americans drive on the right side of the road? Because it's convention. Why did it become convention? Because the American highwa...

In 5th grade, for some reason, we did an entire history module on the Johnstown Flood. I remember it being harrowing, dark and depressing. A...

  Read a letter by Civil War soldier, Sullivan Ballou to his wife  as he departed for battle. Ballou would die a week later at the Battle of...

The last words of every president.

Conan sits down and talks to Documentarian Ken Burns ("The Civil War", "Baseball", "Lewis and Clark", etc.) ab...

I was lying on the couch watching (I think) the History Channel over the weekend when a commercial came on for an upcoming special. "D...