Driven by the Past

A Road Trip through our National Parks

Monday, May 9, 2016

Trails West Road Trip

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Start the Beagle This week, I start my road trip. From now to the end of June, I am driving to history at those places where historic e...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Independence Historical Park at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Creating the Constitution Between the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, the American Revolution swept through the ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Independence National Historical Park at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Philadelphia at the Center of Revolution We trick ourselves by thinking that the past had to happen the way it did, into thinking that ...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Minute Man National Historical Park at Concord, Massachusetts

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“The Redcoats are Coming!” “Lay down your arms, ye damned rebels, lay down your arms!” With that terse command from Major Pitcairn of t...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Rest Stop in New Mexico

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Rest Stop #1 off the highway of history Before we move from the Colonial to the Revolutionary War period, now is a good time to pull in...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Grand Portage National Monument at Grand Portage, Minnesota

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The Far North  The Grand Portage was the Grand Central Station of the Native Far North. Long before French colonial coureurs des bois (r...
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Jon Hunner
I have traveled over 60,000 miles since 2012 visiting places preserved by the National Park Service where history actually happened. "Driven by History: A Road Trip through our National Parks" explores the past of the U.S. from the Bering Land Bridge to the Moon Landing.
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