American History Blog

The Night America Almost Died: George Washington's Crossing of the Delaware

The Night America Almost Died: George Washingto...

December 25, 1776. The Continental Army was finished. Everyone knew it. The British knew it. The Hessian commanders in their warm Trenton quarters knew it. Most of the American commanders...

The Night America Almost Died: George Washingto...

December 25, 1776. The Continental Army was finished. Everyone knew it. The British knew it. The Hessian commanders in their warm Trenton quarters knew it. Most of the American commanders...

The Car Detroit Was Afraid to Build: The Untold Story of Why the Ford Mustang Almost Never Existed

The Car Detroit Was Afraid to Build: The Untold...

In 1962, a Ford executive named Lee Iacocca walked into a boardroom with an idea for a car that Ford's accountants said would lose money, that Ford's engineers said was...

The Car Detroit Was Afraid to Build: The Untold...

In 1962, a Ford executive named Lee Iacocca walked into a boardroom with an idea for a car that Ford's accountants said would lose money, that Ford's engineers said was...

Nobody Wrote It Down: The Mystery Behind Patrick Henry's Most Famous Words

Nobody Wrote It Down: The Mystery Behind Patric...

Richmond, Virginia. March 23, 1775. A man stood up in St. John's Church and delivered what many historians consider the most consequential speech in American history. Words so powerful they...

Nobody Wrote It Down: The Mystery Behind Patric...

Richmond, Virginia. March 23, 1775. A man stood up in St. John's Church and delivered what many historians consider the most consequential speech in American history. Words so powerful they...

The Bloodiest Day in American History: What Really Happened at Antietam

The Bloodiest Day in American History: What Rea...

September 17, 1862. A cornfield in western Maryland. In the space of a single morning, more Americans died than on any other day in the nation's history — before or...

The Bloodiest Day in American History: What Rea...

September 17, 1862. A cornfield in western Maryland. In the space of a single morning, more Americans died than on any other day in the nation's history — before or...

Top 5 Civil War Moments Immortalized in Patriotic Art

Top 5 Civil War Moments Immortalized in Patriot...

Honor the Union’s Grit and Glory Our Civil War prints capture America’s defining struggle with unflinching pride. The Civil War (1861-1865) tested the soul of the USA, forging a stronger...

Top 5 Civil War Moments Immortalized in Patriot...

Honor the Union’s Grit and Glory Our Civil War prints capture America’s defining struggle with unflinching pride. The Civil War (1861-1865) tested the soul of the USA, forging a stronger...

The Space Race Triumph: Apollo 11's Moon Landing and America's Bold Leap into the Unknown

The Space Race Triumph: Apollo 11's Moon Landin...

Credit to image to our artist and can be seen in the American Greatness collection right here. The Space Race, a high-stakes rivalry between the United States and the Soviet...

The Space Race Triumph: Apollo 11's Moon Landin...

Credit to image to our artist and can be seen in the American Greatness collection right here. The Space Race, a high-stakes rivalry between the United States and the Soviet...