Driven by the Past
A Road Trip through our National Parks
Monday, October 24, 2016
Thomas Edison National Historical Park, West Orange, New Jersey
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Imagine life without recorded music, movies, instantaneous communication. Even more basically, imagine life without electricity. The origin...
Monday, October 17, 2016
Notes from the road, October 17, 2016
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This week, I drove to history from Indian Removal in the 1830s through several Civil War sites, a whiskey distillery, the Tennessee Valley ...
Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, South Carolina
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From afar, Ft. Sumter looks like the stump of a tree cut off at its base. It was. From 1861 to 1865, tens of thousands artillery shells fe...
Monday, October 10, 2016
Notes from the Road, October 10, 2016
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After my side trip to Scandinavia, I returned to driving to history on Wednesday, Sept. 28 when I visited Manassas National Battlefield Pa...
The Causes of the Civil War
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Traveling around the East Coast since August, I have visited many NPS sites that commemorate the Civil War. To begin to understand that war...
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