Minstrel Banjo

Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale”, was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1820. She toured Denmark in 1843 where Hans Christian Anderson fell in love with her...

The boom years of clipper ships began in the mid-1840s, responding to a growing demand for faster delivery of tea from China and then continued with the want...

After suffering a defeat to Stephen Douglas in a senate race two years earlier, Abraham Lincoln defeated the favored William Seward on the third ballot to se...

In May of 1828, after approval by the House and Senate, President John Quincy Adams signed a tariff bill which, with high duties on manufactured products, pr...

The U.S. in 1848 was a vastly different nation than it was just four years earlier. Texas had claimed its independence in the previous decade but Mexico sti...

There will be 3 minstrel banjo players here at next years event which is tentatively scheduled for 24-27 September 2026 at Harpers Ferry.   Respond here for more information if interested. -scott See More