Historic Sites
Army Museums Sites |
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Airborne & Special Operations Museum Fayetteville, North Carolina
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The Airborne & Special Operations Museum will provide a unique educational experience... |
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Fort Monroe Casemate Museum Hampton, Virginia
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Completed in 1834 and named in honor of President Monroe, the entire stone fort is a... |
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Fort Sam Houston Museum Fort Sam Houston, Texas
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Exhibits at the Fort Sam Houston Museum depict the history of the installation in... |
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U.S. Army Artillery Museum Lawton, Oklahoma
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The U.S. Army Artillery Museum tells the story of Artillery from 1775 to the present with... |
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U.s. Army Aviation Museum Fort Rucker, Alabama
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The United States Army Aviation Museum, located in South-central Alabama, maintains a... |
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U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Museum Fort Bragg, North Carolina
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This museum depicts army history and traditions, as well as other Army Special Operation... |
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U.s. Army Military Police Corps Regimental Museum Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
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The mission of the museum is to collect and preserve the material history of the Military... |
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U.s. Army Quartermaster Museum Fort Lee, Virginia
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This museum chronicles the branch of the armed forces that supplies troops with food,... |
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U.s. Army Transportation Museum Fort Eustis, Virginia
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The U. S. Army Transportation Museum is houses a collections of vehicles and other U. S.... |
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U.S. Army Women's Museum Fort Lee, Virginia
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This museum, located at Fort Lee, traces the history of women in the military and... |
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Watervliet Arsenal Museum Watervliet, New York
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A small museum features exhibits on the evolution of large artillery and the arsenal... |
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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.
