Driven by the Past

Sand Creek Massacre  After I visited Bent’s Old Fort, I drove north some seventy miles to one of the most shocking events of the Indian...

Along the Santa Fe National Historic Trail I became a historian because of the Santa Fe Trail. As a teenager, I hiked fifty miles of th...

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...

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

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

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