Weekly Video

History of Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims to “Franksgiving”

Explore with us the history of the thanksgiving, on it's 150th year of annual celebration, rrom the feasts of ancient…

11 years ago

History of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which he gave at the commemoration of the Gettysburg Cemetery on November 19, 1863 was only…

11 years ago

A Civil War Ambulance

Join us at the Pry Field Hospital Museum to see a reconstruction of a Civil War ambulance.

11 years ago

Civil War Medicine – Dr. Letterman and the Battle of Antietam

Dr. Jonathan Letterman, medical director of the Union Army of the Potomac, revolutionized battlefield medicine with his Letterman Plan. In…

11 years ago

CSS David vs the USS New Ironsides

It was 150 years ago in one of the great dramatic naval fights of the Civil War, the little CSS…

11 years ago

Gettysburg 150th – Pickett’s Charge

The most famous fighting from the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 occurred in the climax of the battle, what is…

11 years ago

Stephen’s Battery – Building America’s First Ironclad

New video on the little known Stephen's Battery, one of the first attempts in America to build an Ironclad.

11 years ago

The Bloody Wheatfield – Gettysburg 150th Video

Some of the fiercest fighting of the Battle of Gettysburg occurred on July 2nd, 1863, as the forces pushed back…

11 years ago

Fort Wagner and the 54th Massachusetts

150 years ago today the Union army attacked Fort Wagner outside of Charleston South Carolina. Leading the charge was the…

11 years ago