Time to talk about a statue of Tecumseh at the US Naval Academy that's not all that it seems.
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Here's a reel about the strange bromance between Phil Collins and Davy Crockett: www.instagram.com/dougiedoesmo...

Here’s the story of how a humble folding table on a U.S. Navy battleship helped to bring WW2 to an end. www.instagram.com/reel/DEnCNjY...

Here's a post I originally put up earlier in the year, about Jim Henson's marvelous memorial at the University of Maryland: www.instagram.com/reel/DEXgHKU...

Time to talk about a famous historical site where every visitor gets the chance to fly a giant Stars and Stripes: Fort McHenry. www.instagram.com/reel/DECnFDj...

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I love this shot I took at the entrance to the newly renovated visitor center at Antietam National Battlefield. The sculpture features a quote taken from the journal of a Union private who was shot but dragged himself behind a tree and continued to be “exposed to the fire of slavery and freedom.”

I thought it'd be fun to post a short reel about the house that features in the movie A Christmas Story. www.instagram.com/reel/DDwrmGN...

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It's the anniversary of the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, so I've made a wee video about Devils Tower: www.instagram.com/reel/DDioU3L...

...I think Ruby's story is one of the most powerful and moving of the many stories from the struggle for US Civil Rights.
The photo encapsulating what she did is at the top of this thread and it was taken 64 years ago today.

Here's to you Ruby Bridges.

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My latest Scottish Person’s take on U.S. history: It took a clash between two Civil War generals to create Arlington National Cemetery, but it wasn’t a clash on the battlefield. www.instagram.com/reel/DDW7nOq...

Did you know that Arlington National Cemetery might never have existed but for the intervention of a Civil War quartermaster-general for the Union Army? It’s all covered in 90 seconds at www.instagram.com/reel/DDW7nOq...

Lori and me on our visit last year to Mission Concepcion, part of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and a World Heritage Site. It got a bit windy!

Groundbreaking FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins has a brand-new memorial in Ithaca, NY. I talk about her and it at www.instagram.com/reel/DDE5MqN...

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Here’s a bit of background about Norman Rockwell’s famous Thanksgiving illustration. www.instagram.com/reel/DC38zn4...

I have a new "Scottish Person's Take" on Philly's Rocky statue, over at www.instagram.com/dougiedoesmo.... Please check it out!