History is Personal

One of the things I believe is that people who love history do so because they’ve made it personal. They have made an emotional connection to the people, places and events of the past. Sometimes, those connections has less to do with the historical site or event and more to do with us. A good [...] Read more »

Texas Two-Steppin’

We added a few new site listings this week and I finally got around to adding some for my home state of Texas. My favorite city in Texas is San Antonio. All of my life I’ve had family living there and I just love to visit. Every child in Texas grows up hearing of the [...] Read more »

Follow Up

I’m a bit behind on this follow up. I did make my quota to add listings for 5 new states…barely. Then a bunch of illnesses in the house and at the office bogged things down a bit. But we’re back to it now. More listings coming soon. In the meantime, add one of your own! [...] Read more »

Second Guessing Myself

I have the site database set up so that users can browse sites by State, then city or type of attraction. If they choose city, they can browse by type of attraction. But I’m starting to second guess myself. Maybe all city attractions should just be lumped under city. I could add a category to [...] Read more »

US History Blogs

I went to update the blog roll for this blog and searched for US history blogs to add. I was rather amazed that there aren’t many out there at all. The most listings I found for what purported to be history blogs was George Mason University’s HNN (History News Network), but when I actually read [...] Read more »

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