You may know Marco Polo as the first European to visit China. Did you know he was certainly not the…
Today the Linville Gorge is some of the most remote wilderness in the US East of the Mississippi River. When…
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I - the Great War. It is a…
Tom Scott visits an old optical telegraph station that was used to send messages across France at amazing speeds for…
Earlier this year some of the Discerning History team visited the new Museum of the Bible while passing through Washington,…
Check out this video from Destin of Smarter Every Day with some beautiful slow motion video of Civil War era…
Swords are most people's favorite medieval weapon. But spears have been an important weapon for all of recorded history, and…
The Old Senate Chamber in Philadelphia. The US Senate met here during the first years of the republic. Many decisions…
When the Americans attacked the British Sherry at Germantown in 1777, some British troops barricaded themselves in Cliveden, this imposing…