This is Jantar Mantar, an astronomical observatory in Jaipur, India completed in 1734. It contains this machine, the world's largest…
Today the Linville Gorge is some of the most remote wilderness in the US East of the Mississippi River. When…
Earlier this year some of the Discerning History team visited the new Museum of the Bible while passing through Washington,…
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…
This baptismal font in Christ Church may be the oldest object in America continually used for the same purpose. William…
This chair was invented and used by Benjamin Franklin. The bottom flips up to become a step stool. This chair…