The British Museum in London contains many of the most amazing artifacts ever discovered. It was here that Britons, and their…
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-swamps-archaeologists-fugitive-slaves-kept-freedom-180960122/?no-ist
The loss of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage was one of the worst disasters in…
It can be difficult for anyone, especially for a civilian who has never heard a shot fired in anger, to…
Through the next week, the Discerning History team will be touring historic South Carolina. We will travel throughout the state, and into…
When we reflect upon the great danger which so many soldiers in history have endured, it can be hard to…
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160826-why-our-ancestors-drilled-holes-in-each-others-skulls
Join us on our 2016 South Carolina Tour to explore the rich heritage of this state. We will travel throughout the…
It was the 4th of July in Boston. A middle-aged colonial leader stood on shore and looked out over a…
While he was a young cadet at West Point, the future General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson began writing down a book…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/29/researchers-find-tunnel-dug-by-jewish-prisoners-to-escape-nazi-death-squads-in-lithuania/
Culp's Hill is a less known section of the Gettysburg battlefield, but thousands of men fought fiercely along its wooded…