1/18/2012
Animation by Steve Karp
The engine that today powers most commercial airliners and military aircraft traces its origins to a 1930 patent filed by a young RAF officer
Captain Monty Burton shut down the engines of British Airways Concorde G-BOAD at Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, D.C., and addressed the passengers: “We have covered the 3,900 miles from London to Washington in 3 hours 37 minutes, an average speed of well over 1,000 miles per hour and a maximum of 1,34...
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1/17/2012
The Boston Tea Party. The Alamo. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Custer's Last Stand. The Battle of Little Big Horn, fought June 25–26, 1876, and popularly known as Custer's Last Stand is among the first historical events children learn about in America. It is engrained into popular culture, portrayed hundreds of times in everything from scholarly studies to movies to an Anheuser Busch beer advertisement. Singer-songwriter Tom Paxton wrote about it satirically in "Give Somebody a M...
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12/27/2011
Ron Maxwell is the director of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. The latter, which appeared in theaters eight years ago, was a four-hour experience (3 hours, 45 minutes plus a 15-minute intermission), unusually long for a movie. Yet, over an hour of film had to be left on the cutting-room floor to trim it to that length. With the release of the extended director’s cut of Gods and Generals now available on DVD and Blu-Ray, viewers can see what had to be left out, including the scenes i...
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12/7/2011
“If in 20 years the Weider name is associated with history the way it is currently associated with fitness and nutrition that would mean we have had a good measure of success in making history more popular – and that is my goal."—Eric Weider, President, Weider History Group.
Weider History Group's president, Eric Weider, talks in a two-part interview by Rick Stelnick on Suite101 about topics ranging from George Washington to Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards. Di...
The importance of history and historical figures in our own lives.
Frank Whittle and the Race for the Jet
