America’s History adds new photos to the website from Washington’s Winter...
Bruce Venter We’ve recently added pictures to our photo gallery from our Washington’s Winter Surprise: the Battle of Trenton in Depth tour last April. The photos were provided by Bob Kotchian of San...
View ArticleShiver Me Timbers—Our Blackbeard Tour was a Big Success!
Bruce Venter Wow! Our Blackbeard and the Pirates of the Chesapeake tour was terrific. We had excellent weather and our historian, the affable and incomparable John Quarstein excelled in his...
View ArticleCongratulations, Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Sommers
Bruce Venter Recently, Lynne and I were honored with an invitation to the long awaited nuptials of Dick Sommers and his lovely bride, Tracy. As many of you know, Dick has lived the bachelor life for...
View ArticleFredericksburg: Not Just the Sunken Road
Bruce Venter To paraphrase a famous depiction used to describe Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, I would have to say that our Fredericksburg tour leader, Frank O’Reilly was simply “superb.” I knew...
View ArticleLeatherstocking Country: A Successful Combination of America’s History with...
Bruce Venter Our July tour entitled Leatherstocking Tales: The Real Historic Sites of James Fenimore Cooper’s Novels proved to be a good bet as we combined familiar titles (and some not so familiar)...
View ArticleRemembering Dave Hinze
Bruce Venter We must take time to remember our good friend and business partner, Dave Hinze who left us suddenly one year ago on August 18, 2010. But this one year anniversary is not the only day that...
View ArticleWe Begin Again From The VP
Bruce Venter As you can see, the General has been very busy (finishing two books for publication in 2015) and not able to attend properly to his blog. REALLY!!!!!! Three years Bruce? This was brought...
View ArticleFinance Can be Fun and a Journey through History
Bruce Venter Welcome to a New Year at America’s History LLC. The General is busy working on a marketing plan with the University of Oklahoma Press for his Kill Jeff Davis book. He is trying to persuade...
View ArticleSally Gets to Run around Hatcher’s Run Battlefield
Sally Seddon We had a rare opportunity on Saturday to see the newly acquired land purchased by the Civil War Trust at Hatcher’s Run. This special Sesquicentennial event was made possible by Will Greene...
View ArticleKill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 (Campaigns and Commanders...
The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28–March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders...
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