Military history tours have long been popular with foreign travelers, and tour organizations and informal groups have proliferated in recent years.  We have good recommendations for companies that organize excellent package tours to hundreds of battlefields in every corner of the globe--literally. 

Our military history tours tend to be a bit different.  Hunt Tooley, the silent (well, sort of) partner in History Tours, is a  historian who for many years has written and taught history related to war and revolution in the twentieth century.  He began taking student groups to historical sites in the 1980s, and he has organized and led many tours, of both college students and adults,  devoted to World War I, World War II, and many other conflicts since the Renaissance, including battlefields and museums in Virginia. 

He is particularly interested in developing understanding about connections between war and society, and his tours are somewhat atypical of military history tours in that his study groups focus not only on battlefields but also on cemeteries and museums and other kinds of artifacts that tell us about the broader issues of war and society.  At the same time, he does not neglect the great generals and the soldiers who fought in the trenches (as well as the trenches themselves).

He will be traveling to Scotland and Ireland during 2005 to explore these kinds of connections in the long and tempestuous history of the British Isles.

Upcoming also is a trip to the Western Front of World War I.  More information will be forthcoming soon at this site.