Spaniards and French each settled and controlled swaths of the Gulf Coast and even the vital port of New Orleans.   American frontier...

Frontier settlers after the American Revolution, and even before, were generally suspicious of the powers wielded by the eastern...

North American History. The eastern frontier. Ground for expansion to the Louisiana Territory

As an introduction to my colonial history, Vol.2, this a brief continuation (Part 2) of a summation of some key places and events...

The American frontier in the eastern United States after the revolutionary war was the staging ground for the next phase of the...

This is my final segment of a photo-rich Book 1 survey of North American colonial history, until the be beginning of the 19th century...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNIaP-6c6jU Maine ’s Atlantic coast shares a lot in common with Canada’s New Brunswick and Nova Scotia...

New Hampshire’s White Mountains rival and surpass Vermont’s verdant roughland.  This state historically also absorbed some of...

Vermont, the fourteenth state of the Union of the United States, decidedly is one of the most “rural” of states. Its inhabitants’...

Mary Jemison, captured at age 12 by Native Americans (and French enablers), lived for many years in the Genesee Valley of western New...

New York State, Part III A review of the history and natural characteristics of the northernmost frontier of New York State, once the...

A second travel segment rounding up some of the historical and contemporary anecdotes unique to New York State and its vast region to the...

https://youtu.be/dVk7XlSJH1c?si=YayfVQehIUdXvYiC A brief consideration of New York City, formerly New Amsterdam, as part of multipart...

This is part 2 of an overview of the legacies of post-Revolutionary War Pennsylvania. I already addressed a strong German flavor within...

Part 1: A German Flavor An appendix video essay to Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians and Pilgrims Focus on the Pennsylvania Dutch...

A third in a series of photos and narratives on Washington DC’s historical and contemporary legacies, with references to neighboring...

Washington DC, Flower Power, Part II A tidal basin walkabout in the District of Columbia during the springtime cherry blossoms bloom in...

The District of Columbia, or Washington, the Capital of the United States, hosts tourists and protesters, legislators and bureaucrats;...

This is the last of 3 video blogs presenting photo and historical anecdotes about the colony-then-state Virginia’s interior, originally...

An anecdotal review of the legacy of the first colonies of the United States in photos, first focussing on the Mother of all States,...