Victory or Death and things
As many of you know, I spent the last weekend in PA for History Camp Valley Forge. The Saturday History Camp event was fantastic, and it...
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Dame's Discourse
History Dame
- May 13
- 2 min
The Real McCoy
In 2022 I visited two railroad museums on the East Coast. The first was the B&O Railroad Museum, and the second was the Railroad Museum...
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History Dame
- Apr 30
- 3 min
"Jackson May Have Lost His Left Arm, but I Lost My Right"
The Battle of Chancellorsville 30 April - 6 May 1863 By the Spring of 1863, the Union Army was on its third general and lost some key...
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History Dame
- Apr 7
- 2 min
...and gave her mother forty whacks
Ah, yes, Lizzie Borden–America's favorite...nursery rhyme? On a hot August day in 1892, Fall River, MA, landed on the map when two...
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History Dame
- Feb 26
- 3 min
My visit to Battleship Cove
In January, I spent a day in Fall River, MA. one of the places I visited was Battleship Cove. Battleship cover is home to several US...
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History Dame
- Jan 14
- 1 min
History Camp Valley Forge 2023
Registration for History Camp Valley Forge has officially opened! For those unfamiliar with History Camp, History Camp was founded in...
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History Dame
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
History Dame's Year
Hard to imagine another year is ending, but here we are, saying goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023. Do you remember, as a kid, trying to...
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History Dame
- Dec 27, 2022
- 2 min
The Three R's Who Changed New York City and Show Business
As the country continued to fall into a deep depression, Rockefeller began building an entire complex that expressed the highest ideas of...
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History Dame
- Dec 7, 2022
- 1 min
How December 7, 1941 became "A Date That Will Live in Infamy"
In November - December of 2021, we marked the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I did a series of special postings highlighting events...
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History Dame
- Oct 16, 2022
- 1 min
Missiles of October
In October of 1962, the World was on the brink of World War III. While some Americans were aware of heightened tensions between the...
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History Dame
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
Tis Some Visitor, I Muttered
Little Dame spent most of her grade school years not being a fan of reading. I tried so many books that I thought were interesting,...
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History Dame
- Aug 7, 2022
- 3 min
Separated by 160 years
240 years ago, on August 7, 1782, General George Washington created the Badge of Military Merit. An award open to only enlisted men,...
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History Dame
- Jul 11, 2022
- 3 min
Enslaved People of George Mason Memorial--How GMU makes the past, present.
Today, Colleges and Universities named after Founders are trying to reconcile the incredible accomplishments of their namesakes with the...
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History Dame
- Jun 4, 2022
- 2 min
80th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway is one of my favorite battles in the Pacific Theater for a straightforward reason--it proves the importance of good...
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History Dame
- Jun 3, 2022
- 3 min
Tanks For The Memories...
My visit to the American Heritage Museum Have I told you lately that I love... the American Heritage Museum? It fills my heart with...
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History Dame
- May 22, 2022
- 2 min
Museum of the American Revolution or American Revolution Museum? The answer is, both!
It has been ages since I visited Philadelphia. The last time I was there, the Museum of the American Revolution did not exist yet, but I...
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History Dame
- May 10, 2022
- 3 min
How Franklin Shaped Our Prisons
The more I travel along the East Coast, the more I am amazed to see how the "Founding Fathers" influenced our world. For example, I...
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History Dame
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
From Lady Lex to The Blue Ghost
The loss of our first aircraft carrier came months after Pearl Harbor, but she was reborn.
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History Dame
- May 2, 2022
- 3 min
Continentals, Redcoats, and Hessians...Oh, My!
Mount Vernon is one of the most iconic historic sites in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Privately owned, Mount Vernon strives to build a...
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