Historic Sites
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DAR National Headquarters And Museum Washington, District Of Columbia
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Founded in 1890, the DAR National Headquarters boasts one of the nation's largest... |
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Ford's Theatre National Historic Site Washington, District Of Columbia
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In 1861, theatre entrepreneur John T. Ford leased the First Baptist Church and converted... |
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German American Heritage Museum Washington DC, District Of Columbia
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Opening on March 21, 2010, the German-American Heritage Museum of the USA will tell the... |
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Historical Society Of Washington D.C. Washington, District Of Columbia
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Located in the historic Carnegie Library building, the Historical Society of Washington... |
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Library Of Congress Washington, District Of Columbia
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The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as... |
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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site Washington, District Of Columbia
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Mary McLeod Bethune, political activist for racial and gender equality, established the... |
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Supreme Court Building Washington, District Of Columbia
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The Old Post Office Tower Washington, District Of Columbia
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Its rustication, strong semi-circular arches, squat clustered columns united by a foliate... |
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The Old Stone House Washington, District Of Columbia
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In the midst of Washington, D.C., a city of grand memorials to national leaders and... |
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White House Historical Association Visitors Center Washington, District Of Columbia
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In 1995, the National Park Service opened the White House Visitor Center. This facility,... |
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Recently added:
- American Revolution Center
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- National Museum of the U.S. Navy
- Manassas National Battlefield
- Maryland State House
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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.
