Month: November 2019

We made a five-day trip that allowed us to visit a ton of national monuments, historic sites and parks; it was a nice refresher of high school history, and it didn’t hurt that we got to get more stamps in our new(ish) large passport book. In Washington D.C. we dashed around the city, visiting sites…

“I never saw such fighting since God made me. The Americans fought like demons.” – Lt. General Charles, Earl Cornwallis On March 15, 1781, six years into the American Revolution, General Greene and Lord Cornwallis’ troops faced off at a small courthouse community. This 2.5 hour battle would change the course of the Southern Campaign…

Carl Sandburg provided a popular voice for the American people of the twentieth century and still speaks to us through his words, activism, music and the beauty and serenity of Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. Throughout his career, Carl Sandburg’s works reflected the face of America and her experiences. Whether this was war, poverty,…