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The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia
George Washington visited Hot Springs, Va. on horseback in 1755 on an inspection tour of forts as protection against Indian attacks. The Homestead spa and resort was founded in 1766, a decade before our country. That makes the hotel 250 years old in 2016...
Andrew Jackson as a Military Leader
This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...
Privateer Blown Sky High
This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...
Weapons of Democracy: 4-Minute Men
This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...
Testing Theories: Edison’s Scorecard
This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...
Where's My Flying Car?
This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...
The Perils of Overpromising: Boosterism in the twenties and now
This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...
What Makes Convenience Stores Convenient?
I have a confession to make: I wrote a book about the history of refrigeration in the United States, but I didn’t realize that Seven Eleven started life as an ice delivery company until a radio producer told me. To be fair, there were many, many ice companies...
On Car Restoration
The following is an excerpt from David N. Lucsko’s Junyards, Gearheads, and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past in honor of National Collector Car Appreciation Day. From the 1890s through the 1920s, automobiles were seldom “re- stored.” At most they were...
Energy and Our Nationalist Moment
This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...
