First Name in Historic Tours

Our Founder Stephen E. Ambrose had a passion for teaching Americans about our nation’s heritage and heroes. Today our historians carry on his legacy.

Our historians have interviewed hundreds of WWII veterans on the battlefields where they fought in Europe, adding a personal dimension to our Band of Brothers® Tour, D-Day to the Rhine Tour and other WWII tours that no other tour company can offer.

Travel to the islands where the battles raged on the land, air and sea in the Pacific Theater. Explore locations in Japan that shaped WWII history and trace the final hours of the War. Journey through the Manhattan Project National Historic Park System to follow the progress of the making of the atomic bomb.

From Gettysburg in the North, to the battlefields along the Mississippi and the campaigns across the South, our Civil War Tours give a panorama of the major events of the American Civil War.

Follow the path of explorers Lewis and Clark, walk the Revolutionary War battlefields where Patriots clashed with Loyalists, and time travel back to the days of Crazy Horse and Custer on our American History Tours.

Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours offers two outstanding military history tours: WWI: Western Front Tour and Scotland Jacobite Rising Tour, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Battlefields of the Highlands.

We have extensive experience in designing and customizing private group tours for alumni travel associations, educational organizations, museums, high schools, families and friends that are transformative experiences.

Why travel with SAHT?

Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours is the product of 35 years of experience on the path of World War II and American history.

About Us

We have only the most qualified historians, experts in their field, lead our historical tours. They travel with you throughout the tour and join you for dinner, when you can recount the day’s events with your fellow travelers.

Our Historians

What our guests say

My son and I took this tour some years ago and are still talking about it. The tour and it’s guide were fist class. I have been to Normandy since and it was more impressive having been with Ambrose before.

— Mike Johnson

Stephen Ambrose Tours certainly covers strategy and the high level of a military campaign, but they have the great ability to collect much anecdotal information about the average GI and that is what gives the color and humanist to their tours.

— John Lindstedt

I can't describe the experience completely. I really had a great time on this trip and I highly encourage you to choose this trip. If you have been on it before the second time is certainly worth it.

— Brad from Wisconsin

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October 13, 2026

Kilometer Zero: Where the Bataan Death March Began

American and Filipino prisoners on the march from Bataan, April 1942. National Archives photograph. On October 17, 1944, men of the 6th Ranger Battalion went ashore on the small islands that guard the entrance to Leyte Gulf. They were the first troops of the American invasion force to land in the Philippines. Three days later,… Read More >

June 5, 2026

From Easy Company to the Eagle’s Nest: A Guide to Our Four Normandy Tours

Our four Normandy tours all reach the same coast in northwestern France. But they reach it from different starting points, on different schedules, with different historians, and to different ends.The four tours are the Band of Brothers® tour, D-Day to the Rhine, Operation Overlord, and the Normandy Campaign. Read More >

Descendants of WWII veterans receive commemorative medals during a ceremony on Saipan honoring service members who fought in the Pacific Theater

March 25, 2026

Descendants of WWII Veterans Retrace Battle Sites on Saipan and Tinian

This month, the children of WWII veterans are walking the ground where their fathers fought. Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours is one of several heritage tour organizations bringing families to the Northern Mariana Islands to retrace the battle sites of Saipan and Tinian, where some of the Pacific Theater’s most consequential battles took place in the… Read More >