US History Blog

Here are some very interesting stats from the New York Chinese Consulate about the upcoming Beijing Olympics: Official Olympics Website is ...

Sunset Magazine is profiling Lassen National Park in Northern California, showcasing Lassen as a hidden treasure of the west. Although I...

Flickr is my favorite photo service and a great place from which you can do some superb armchair travelling. Here at Travel and History I...

Wisconsin is hardly the state that conjures up images of Shipwrecks in the deep, but surprisingly some 700 shipwrecks from the past line Wis...

Stonehenge is one of the world's most intriguing places, with carefully placed, massive stone monuments celebrating some of the world...

USS Missouri Surrender Deck, site of the end of WWII. The surrender was signed here and the actual documents lie in a case to the left. Batt...

Great Hall of the People, Beijing, Tiananmen Square Originally uploaded by JoeDuck This is the Great Hall of the People where the ...