There was once a river boat captain, whose life was changed by a preacher. He built a church for that preacher–a building that still stands…

If you’ve ever flown into the Las Vegas airport, you may have noticed a colorful Cessna airplane hanging from the ceiling over the baggage claim…

At Christmas we may sing, “The First Noel.”  In the United States, this is the “Only Noel.”  Confused?  Join me on a trip to Christmas…

Nearly a century and a half ago two armies shared a sentimental tune before one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War.  It was…

The Union army was defeated at Fredricksburg, Virginia in mid December 1862.  President Lincoln needed a victory to bolster the north and the Emancipation Proclamation…

Santa needs a sleigh to make deliveries around the world. This man makes sure he will never run out of transportation…..

Today messages can be relayed to a military patrol within a split second.  But in the 1860s, it took a scouting party to track down…

The first operational helicopters took flight in the 1930s.   Wide spread production of the aircraft didn’t occur for another decade after that.  However, inventors…

Perhaps the first Europeans to come to his part of southwest Missouri were amazing to see such a vast village on the prairie.  It was…

Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason they jumped and mass chaos…