Historic Sites
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Alabama Capitol Montgomery, Alabama
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Completed in 1851, this National Historic Landmark is a museum of state history and... |
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Alabama Historic Theatre Birmingham, Alabama
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The Alabama Theatre was built in 1927 by Paramount Studios as an Alabama showcase for... |
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Belle Mont Mansion Tuscumbia, Alabama
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Magnificently sited on a commanding hilltop, Belle Mont is one of early Alabama’s... |
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Doubleday Field Cooperstown, Alabama
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Just two blocks away from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Doubleday Field is named... |
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Marengo County Historical Society Demopolis, Alabama
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This society is housed in the Laird Cottage/Geneva Mercer Museum, which interprets the... |
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Monroe County Heritage Museum Monroeville, Alabama
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The Old Courthouse Museum houses the headquarters of the Monroe County Heritage Museum, a... |
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Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station Montgomery, Alabama
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Mob violence that met interracial student bus riders at this station on May 20, 1961... |
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Museum Of Mobile Mobile, Alabama
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This museum interprets the history of the Mobile Bay Area and Southwestern Alabama.... |
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Old Cahawba Selma, Alabama
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Cahawba was once Alabama's state capital (1820-1826) and a thriving antebellum river town... |
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Rickwood Field Birmingham, Alabama
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Opened on August 18, 1910, Rickwood Field is one of the oldest baseball parks in the... |
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Sloss Furnaces Birmingham, Alabama
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In 1881 and 1882, North Alabama planter and investor James Withers Sloss built the... |
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Recently added:
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- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- National Museum of the U.S. Navy
- Manassas National Battlefield
- Maryland State House
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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.
