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Ah Tah Thi Ki Museum Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Florida
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The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on Big Cyrpess Reservation explores the history of the Seminole... |
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Bennington Museum Bennington, Vermont
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The 28,000-square-foot museum, which owns more than 60,000 artifacts from southern... |
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Chico Museum Chico, California
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Exhibits change several times a year and include prestigious traveling exhibits as well... |
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Chinese American Museum Los Angeles, California
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Through the extensive collection of art, documents, images and artifacts, visitors can... |
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Dorchester County Historical Society Cambridge, Maryland
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Located on the Eastern Shore, the Dorchester County Historical Society is based out of... |
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Headley Whitney Museum Lexington, Kentucky
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George W. Headley spent his career designing jewelry and bibelots. In 1960, Headley... |
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Macculloch Hall Historical Museum Morristown, New Jersey
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Macculloch Hall Historical Museum, the cornerstone of Morristown's National Historic... |
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Museum Of Early Trades And Crafts Madison, New Jersey
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The mission of the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts is to enhance the understanding... |
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New Madrid Historical Museum New Madrid, Missouri
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The museum displays artifacts from pre-Colombian culture, The Civil War, and other... |
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Queen Anne's County Historical Society Centreville, Maryland
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Wright's Chance, c. 1744 (410) 604-2100 119 South Commerce Street Centreville, MD 21617... | |
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Riverside Metropolitan Museum Riverside, California
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As the founding collection at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum, the Anthropology... |
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San Marcos De Apalache Historic State Park St. Marks, Florida
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The many different flags welcoming visitors to the park demonstrate the colorful history... |
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Shelburne Museum Shelburne, Vermont
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More than 150,000 works of art are on display on the 45-acre museum campus, spread... |
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Waterloo Village Stanhope, New Jersey
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Waterloo Village is a completely recreated colonial town and an adjoining Indian Village... |
American Heritage is proud to host the
National Portal to
Historic Collections
Recently added:
- American Revolution Center
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- National Museum of the U.S. Navy
- Manassas National Battlefield
- Maryland State House
In association with the
American Association for State and Local History
Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
