History Before Now
Jonathan MarbasMaking history come alive. Created by Jonathan Marbas
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The Winter War That Cost the British More Men Than the Battle for New York
On January 20, 1777, in the cold of a New Jersey afternoon, four hundred New Jersey farmers and fifty Pennsylvania riflemen waded into the Millstone River with the water up to their waists. Ice rode the current. On the far bank stood five...
The American Who Lost Every Ship He Built and Saved the Revolution
On the night of October 11, 1776, the American fleet on Lake Champlain was finished. Eleven of sixteen vessels were sunk, captured, or burned. The water around Valcour Island, a slim ridge of rock between the New York shore and the deep l...
The Eight-Foot Canvas Dolley Madison Refused to Leave Behind
The portrait was bolted to the wall of the State Dining Room. It was Gilbert Stuart’s full-length Lansdowne Washington, eight feet tall, a likeness already familiar to every American who had ever looked at it. The frame was massive. The s...
The Coal Miners Who Tunneled Under a Confederate Fort and Detonated Four Tons of Powder
At 4:44 am on the morning of July 30, 1864, the earth lifted under Elliott’s Salient outside Petersburg, Virginia. A fountain of soil, men, cannon, and broken timber rose more than a hundred feet into the dawn. A Maine soldier in the Unio...
The Virginia Farmer Whose Living Room Hosted the End of the Civil War
On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, in a brick farmhouse in the village of Appomattox Court House, two men sat down across a small marble-topped table in a front parlor. One was in a clean gray uniform with a polished sword and his hair ne...
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