Tour “BEYOND THE POSTCARD”
as part of Raffi’s Regulars
One-time only:
Defining the American Dream:
From the Star-Spangled Banner to the Gettysburg Address
Tour with the Celebrity Historian:
1. 150 TV appearances on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC stations nationwide
2. Professor at Harris Stowe State University, HBCU in St. Louis
3. Author of 3 Amazon best-selling books on American history
4. Producer and Host of Clio The Muse TV show on AppleTV
5. Former Park Ranger at the Gettysburg battlefield, NPS Richmond Civil War sites, and MLK home
6. Former Educator at the birthplace of the atomic bomb for the Los Alamos Historical Society
7. President of the St. George Tucker Society, scholarly organization on the study of the U.S. South
8. Judge for National History Day in state competitions (MO and NM) and nationals in D.C.
9. Public Speaker at universities (i.e. Oxford & Cambridge), humanities councils, and businesses (i.e. NASDAQ) – and regular presenter at academic conferences
10. Multiple master’s degrees, including one in history and another in historic preservation
5 days, 5 destinations
Gettysburg battlefield
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Bloodiest battle in American history, and site of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
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Special access with Wayne Motts, former director of the National Civil War Museum and President Emeritus of the Gettysburg Foundation
Star-Spangled Banner
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Fort McHenry, where the bombardment witnessed by Francis Scott Key inspired him to write the song that became the national anthem
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Special access with Tom McMillan, author of Our Flag Was Still There
Annapolis
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Declaration of Independence signer William Paca House and Garden in the temporary capital city of the USA ratifying the Treaty of Paris for American independence
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“Princes of Ireland” - Irish rebels to American revolutionaries – religious freedom with the Carroll family, including the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence
Antietam battlefield
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Bloodiest day in American history, led to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery
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Special access with Scott Hartwig, retired National Park Service historian and author of the definitive 2-volume history on Antietam
Harpers Ferry
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From slavery to civil rights: where the “end of American slavery began”
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John Brown’s raid, 1859
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8x changed hands during the Civil War
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Jefferson Rock, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois
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The Niagara Movement to the birth of the NAACP
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Storer College: Freedmen’s School and early HBCU
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Special access with Dr. William Blair, Director Emeritus of the Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University
Arrive BWI airport
Sunday, Sept 15
Depart BWI airport
Saturday, Sept 21
$4,400/person
including double-occupancy lodging and private touring transportation (excludes airfare)
Buddy Pass:
bring unlimited friends for discount price of $3,900/person in your party
