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“Christopher Columbus: The Four Voyages” by Laurence Bergreen [Book Review]

I learned a lot about what I thought I had known about Christopher Columbus; my assumptions challenged, my misconceptions revealed. Laurence Bergreen’s “Christopher Columbus: The Four Voyages” is a literary unmasking of one of history’s most renown subjects, and ironically, one of its least understood. Much enmity and praise has been laid at the doorstep […]

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“Hey, Let’s Go To North Carolina!”

The best moments in travel just happen to be the most random ones. Stuff done on the fly, off of a dare, in the moment, often with family. This is one of my favorite memories, not because of the complexity of it, or how much it cost, or even the bragging rights of anything, it’s

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30 Sacred Photos of Manassas National Battlefield Park (Bull Run)

One of the most sacred, awe-inspiring sites I’ve ever been to has to be Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia. Otherwise known as Bull Run, this national park features 7 square miles of nature, trails, Civil War structures, statues, cannons, and more, not to mention a neat air-conditioned Visitor Center with a mini museum and bookstore.

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5 Books To Read By Author James Horn

My fascination with author James Horn began with a book called “Adapting to a New World” in which he cast the early Virginia colonists not as ‘instant Americans’ (just add Chesapeake water!) but of Englishmen and women who had transplanted their cultural mores from the old country to their new home. This single premise has

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Tim Tebow “This Is The Day” [Book Review]

“This Is The Day” by football legend turned baseball player Tim Tebow is a GRAND SLAM! As an already accomplished author, Tebow brings more colloquial eloquence to his readers in his latest offering subtitled “reclaim your dream, ignite your purpose, live your passion.” Those themes run throughout the book and inject you with enough motivation

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10 Airport Travel Tips (For Comfort And Confidence)

Make these 10 Airport travel tips a chapter in your travel bible! Read this now and save yourself hours of headache and frustration at airports. I’m sharing some advice I’ve learned through my years of extensive travel. I was raised by parents who were travel agents so I got to see all aspects of travel

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Ancestry Partners With Spotify To Produce Your “Heritage Playlist”

This is one of the coolest things to hit the genealogy market since Ancestry opened its online doors in 1996. If you love music, then you’re going to love this new Your “Heritage Playlist” where Ancestry has partnered with music-giant Spotify to produce what Ancestry is phrasing “the unique sound of your ancestry.” Pretty catchy,

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“The Last Book Smuggler” by Birutė Putrius [Book Review]

You should stop what you’re doing right now and read “The Last Book Smuggler” by Birutė Putrius! Its pages are a lesson for all humanity about tragedy, hope, and success beautifully woven like a Lithuanian juosta sash as a masterpiece of historical fiction. Although set in Lithuania in 1902, this book is universal in both

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30 Stunning Photos of the Arjalon Price House in Virginia

The Arjalon Price House is a bit of American colonial history that is associated with the James Madison Museum of Orange, Virginia. It is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary War structures that is built in the old colonial style, it is often referred to as a ‘cube house.’ It is called a ‘cube house’

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Ancestry Updates Ethnicity Estimates with Increased Accuracy

Ancestry is the toast of the internet right now with its updated ethnicity estimates. This is just what the DNA company needed as its market shares were sliding in competition with others who were offering higher resolution and increased accuracy as far as “ethnicity estimates” are concerned. For one, Ancestry’s ‘DNA Story’ has eliminated some

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30 Pictures of My Visit to Jamestown Virginia

This summer I spent 3 weeks in Virginia along with my cousin on a genealogical research trip and one of the highlights was Jamestown! What an awe-inspiring place! As a historian and genealogy buff, I went in there with an absolute sense of reverence for the place as it is, in essence, the birthplace of our

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