Traveling With A Sense Of History
From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American pastOtto...
View ArticleOn The Trail Of Benedict Arnold
W. D. WetherellApril/May 2007Some of the infuriating questions surrounding the great hero-traitor can be answered by visiting the fields where he fought. The trip will also take you to many of the most...
View ArticleAn Arnold Chronology
April/May 2007 1741 Born in Norwich, Connecticut. 1758 Enlists in a New York company for service in the French and Indian War. 1759–73 Deserts and returns to Norwich to finish an apprenticeship as a...
View ArticleTo Plan A Trip
W. D. WetherellApril/May 2007The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum has extensive displays on the Battle of Valcour Island and the archeological explorations being made there. The museum is open daily...
View ArticleBattle For Ticonderoga
The largest army ever assembled in North America attacked the French at New York’s Fort Carillon . . . with disastrous resultsSpring/Summer 2008By early morning of July 5, 1758, more than a thousand...
View ArticleFirst Bateau For Fort Ticonderoga
Spring 2009 Last fall, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s master shipbuilder, Dale Henry, above, steers the oak-and-pine bateau he built for Fort Ticonderoga into the La Chute River. In the large...
View ArticleBig Guns For Washington
How tough Henry Knox hauled a train of cannon over wintry trails to help drive the British away from BostonClay PerryApril 1955Knox was one of those providential characters which spring up in...
View ArticleChamplain Among The Mohawk, 1609
A Soldier-Humanist Fights a War for Peace in North AmericaDavid Hackett FischerSpring 2009A few generations ago, American colonial history centered on a single narrative that flowed from Jamestown in...
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