

Anchors, Underwater Archaeology, Antique Automobiles, “Billy and Charlie”, Jeffrey P Brain, John D Broadwater, Cartoons political and social, William Henry Goss, the Last Millennium.
Roxanne Gatling Gilmore, 17th century Glassware, Christopher Columbus, Buffalo Bill, Roberta Greenwood, Bernard L Fontana, Steve Friezen, Edward Hicks, historical Interpretation, Jamestown Virginia, Ivor Noel Hume, Las Vegas archaeology, Puy du Fou.
A magazine of American history, archaeology, antique collecting, museum exhibits, and related travel destinations
Pocahontas Provocative exhibitionist or “no faire lady”? Which picture tells the story?
Ivor Noël Hume
Really Bad Ideas From the Past. A look at those not so great inventions from bygone days.
Image Alchemy Collection
Mousetraps One Collector’s Story
Crime Fighters 19th Century Police with mobile firepower
Image Alchemy Collection
Marketplace Hear ye, hear ye!! Old ads, new ads.
Tragedy in Clay The story of Ben Franklin’s ugly mug.
Richard Akerman
Famous Lost Words Some we wish we’d said… others definitely not.
Mermaid Plate Old London Town–barely an hour from Washington D.C.
Ducking Getting the chair, Colonial style.
Both Sides Rosie the Riveter from America and the 3rd Reich.
Image Alchemy Collection
Directory Directory Where to find what you need.


The Last Millennium? by Ivor Noël Hume

Delft Goes to Little Rock by John C. Austin

Terrorist strikes the U.S. Capitol! Famous Figure Shot!

Sea Venture Little Ship, Big Storm

Both Sides Lovers from The Great War Image Alchemy Collection

Treasure Beneath the Streets of L.A. by Roberta S. Greenwood

Really Bad Ideas From the Past. A look at those not so great inventions from bygone days.

Renaissance in Arizona by Bernard L. Fontana

Famous Lost Words Some we wish we’d said… others definitely not.

A pioneer at Pemaquid by Robert L. Bradley

When lead Turned to Gold by Richard Ackerman

Doom in the Desert: The Last Days of Sin City

Marketplace Hear ye, hear ye!! Old ads, new ads.

The Forum Let us know what’s on your mind!


A Helping Hand

The Monitor’s Final Battle
by John D. Broadwater

Americans and our Automobiles
Image Alchemy Collection

The Renovation of Virginia’s Executive Mansion by Roxane Gatling Gilmore

As Jefferson Envisioned It
by F. Carey Howlett

Both SidesNew Year’s Day North and South 1864
Image Alchemy Collection

Massacre at Fort Seybert
By Kate Wilson

Really Bad Ideas From the Past. A look at those not so great inventions from bygone days.

Buffalo Bill Last of the Great Scouts laid to rest on a Colorado mountain peak.
by Steve Friesen
Warbirds Fly Again
by David M. Doody
One day a governor, the next a…?
By John Hamant
1862 Political Cartoons
Image Alchemy Collection
Jamestown
by William M. Kelso
Fort St. George: Virginia’s Second Lost Colony
by Jeffrey P. Brain
Both Sides Couples and the Great War
Image Alchemy Collection
Really Bad Ideas From the Past.
A look at those not so great inventions from bygone days.
Image Alchemy Collection
Going in Style
by Julian W. S. Litten
The Museum of Mourning Art
by Anita Schorsh
Picture Perfect
by Richard Akerman
German Stoneware 1200-1900
by David Gaimster

The Big House: San Quentin, a History
by Sherri Jilek

The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks
by Carolyn Weekley
Harper’s Weekly 1865
Image Alchemy Collection

Columbus’s Anchor: Is it or isn’t it?
by Eric Klingelhofer
Did a Chance Meeting in London Over 400 Years Ago
Change the Course of American Colonial History?
by Simon Pashoe

The Circulation of Irish Coinage in Pre-Federal America
By Philip L. Mossman, M.D
Vols. I & II, Nos. 1 4, Vol. III, 1
With more than eighty articles and pictorial features published, and with some running to more than one issue, it is time to provide you with a means of tracking subjects you have read and want to refer to again, and to draw your attention to back issues containing bits that you missed. The index is up-dated with each issue.
Roman numerals identify the volume and Arabic the issue. Authors’ names are in blue. Biographical information precedes each featured article.
Aircraft: I. 4.
Akerman, Richard: I. 1; I. 2; I. 4.
Anchors: II. 1.
Archaeology: I. 1; I. 2; I. 3; I. 4; II. 1.
“ underwater: I. 2; I. 3
Arizona: II. 2.
Austin, John C.: I. 2.
Automobiles, antique: I. 3 & 4; II. 2, 3 & 4. III, 1.
Bicycles: I. 4.
Billy and Charlie: I. 2.
Bradley, Robert L.: I. 2.
Brain, Jeffrey P.: I. 4.
Broadwater, John D.: I. 3. II, 1 & 2…
Buffalo Bill, grave of: I.3.
Buttons, military: II. 4.
California: I. 2.
Capitol, U.S.: I.2.
“ _Virginia State, model of: I. 3
Cartoons, political & social: I. 4; II. 1, 2.
China, crested, for the American market: II. 1 & 2.
Chinese in L.A.: I. 2.
Civil War U.S. II.1 & 2. III, 1
Coffins: I. 4; II. 1.
Coins: II. 4.
Collecting: I. 1; I. 2; I. 4; II. 1. III, 1
Colorado: I. 3.
Columbus, Christopher: II. 1.
Crested china: II, 1.
Cummings, John F, III: III, 1.
De Bry, Theodore: II. 4.
Delftware, English: I, 1 & 2.
Diving: I. 3; II. 1 & 2.
Doody, David M.: I. 4.
Elitism, editorial: III, 1.
Executive Mansion, VA.: I. 3.
Exploration, American: II. 4.
Facial reconstructions: II. 1.
Fakes & Forgeries, I. 2.
Fiction, III, 1
Fontana, Bernard L.: I. 2.
Ford, Model “A”, III, 1
Franklin, Ben: I. 1.
Fredericksburg, VA. III, 1.
French & Indian War: I. 3.
Friezen, Steve: I. 3.
Gaimster, David: I. 4.
Gans, Joachim: II.2
Gilmore, Roxanne Gatling: I. 3.
Glassware, 17th century: I. 3.
Goss, William Henry: II. 1 & 2.
Grassl, Gary: II. 2.
Greenwood, Roberta S.: I. 2.
Guildford, U.K. discoveries at: I. 3.
Guillotine: II, 3.
Guns: I. 1 & 3; II. 1-4.
Haller, Stephen E: II. 4.
Hamant, John: I. 4.
Head measuring: I. 2.
Hicks, Edward, artist: II. 1.
History, American: I. 1; I. 2; I. 3; I. 4; II. 1.
Howlett, F. Carey: I. 3.
Hudson, Carter: II, 1 & 2.
Impersonations: I. 4.
Interpretation, historical: I. 4
Jamestown, VA.: I.4 & II. 1 & 2.
“ Exposition, 1907: II.2; III, 1.
Jefferson, Thomas: I. 3.
Jewish history: II, 2.
Jilek, Sherri: II. 1.
Kelso, William: I. 4; II. 1.
Klingelhofer, Eric: II. 1.
Las Vegas, archaeology of: I. 1 & 2.
Litten, Julian: I. 4.
London Bridge in Arizona: II. 2.
London Town, MD.: I.1.
Los Angeles: I. 2.
Lost Colony: I. 4; II. 2.
Lusitania, R.M.S.: II, 1.
Maine: I. 2 & 4.
Maps: II. 4.
Massachusetts: I. 4.
Mermaids: I. 1.
Military history: II. 2-4.III, 1.
Millennium, the last: I, 2.
Missions, Spanish: I. 2.
Monitor, U.S.S. I. 3.
Models, military: II. 2.
Mousetraps: I. 1.
Mummification: I. 3.
Museums: I. 2; I. 3; I, 4; II. 1.
Myer, John Henry, Charlottesville merchant: III.1.
Native Americans: I. 3; II. 3.
Nevada: I. 1 & 2.
New Year, 1894: I. 3.
Noël Hume, Ivor: I. 1; I. 2; II. 1.
Numismatics: II. 4.
Opsail 2000, III, 1.
Pashoe, Simon: II. 4.
Peaceable Kingdom, The_: II. 1.
Pemaquid, Maine: I. 2.
Pillory: II. 2.
Pocahontas: I.1.
Politics: III, 1.
Privies: II, 4.
Property, intellectual: I. 4.
Punishment: I. 2; II, 2 & 3.
Rainmaking: III, 1.
Roanoke Island, N.C. II. 2.
San Quentin, prison at: II. 1.
San Xavier del Bac, AZ., I. 2.
Schorsh, Anita: I. 4.
Sea Venture: I. 2.
Seybert, Fort, W. VA.: I. 3.
Ships: I. 1; I. 3; II. 1. III, 1
Shipwrecks: I. 2. II, 1.
Smoking: I. 1.
St. George, Fort, Maine: I. 4.
Stoneware, German: I. 4.
Stool, ducking: I. 2.
Surfing: II. 1.
Survey, results of: II. 2.
Tarleton, Banistre: II. 4.
Terrorism in U.S.: I, 2.
Transportation, land: I. 3; I. 4; II. 1.
Virginia: I. 1-4; II. 1-4. III. 1.
Warbirds of World War II: I. 4.
Weekley, Carolyn: II. 1.
West Virginia: I. 3.
Williamsburg, Colonial: I. 1; I. 2; I. 3; I. 4; II. 1. II, 2; II, 3; II, 4; III, 1
Wilson, Kate: I. 3.
Witchcraft: I. 1.
World War I, images from: I. 2; 1.4.
World War II.: I. 1; I. 4