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
These bones were sent to President and naturalist Thomas Jefferson by a friend. He first believed them to be the
When the British captured Philadelphia, Congress fled to York, PA, a rough frontier town. This is a reconstruction of the
This building, Christ Church in Philadelphia, was the tallest building George Washington ever laid eyes on. When the steeple was