Here in sunny California, 4th grade means learning California history, and a big part of that history are the California Missions. The 21 missions dotting the state, up and down the El Camino Real, were all built between 1769 and 1798, and represent (for good and/or ill) the spread of ...

Only one more Big Sleep until Santa comes! But this Santa guy — just exactly who is he and where did he come from? Well, YouTuber CGPGrey (Colin Grey) has another informative and entertaining video up, and this time he’s looking back at the origins of the Big Red Guy: ...

It’s always been about conversation. In the beginning it was conversation among Brad, Troy and me. Every Monday night for years we’d meet in the maintenance shed of the school where we worked (Brad had the key) to have a beer or two and talk about maybe going into business together, ...

Here at GeekDad, we’re huge fans of the Arduino. The Arduino is a fantastic single-board microcontroller, supported by an enthusiastic community of users and developers. Thanks to the efforts of the Arduino development team, tens of thousands of users have been able to cheaply and easily join the world of ...

With our recent move to Ohio for a job and having lived in Wisconsin for the past 25 years, this GeekFamily is in the “we don’t know what we don’t know” phase of our new home state. We want to do things out but just don’t know what. We’d love ...

There are some historical moments whose significance is obvious at the moment, where you know it will be remembered and commemorated in years to come. But I suspect most people wouldn’t be able to recall the events in their lives on October 23, 2001, because you would have to have ...

I recently had a chance to talk with Matthew McElligott and Larry Tuxbury, the authors of the Benjamin Franklinstein chapter book series. Their latest book Benjamin Franklinstein Meets the Fright Brothers has recently been released and follows the adventures the undead Ben Franklin and his companion, Victor. GeekDad: I missed the first ...

Before you step into the future of DC Comics tomorrow with its rebooted universe of titles, take a moment to remember its three-quarters of a century history of storytelling with Taschen Books’ gloriously illustrated 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. I own a lot of books on ...

Before you step into the future of DC Comics tomorrow with its rebooted universe of titles, take a moment to remember its three-quarters of a century history of storytelling with Taschen Books’ gloriously illustrated 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. I own a lot of books on ...

Based on an American History CD-ROM that the publisher, Multieducator Inc., wrote back in 1990, Revolutionary War is totally rewritten and redone and turned into an app. Filled with text, photographs, paintings, and multimedia presentations, the app aims to teach about all aspects of the American Revolution. The app is divided ...