Historic Sites
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Denison Society & Homestead Museum Mystic, Connecticut
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This historic Denison house, Pequotsepos Manor, was the home for six generations of one... |
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Derby Historical Society & Humphreys House Ansonia, Connecticut
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More than just a wonderful interactive tool for educating the region's children, the... |
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Glebe House Museum Woodbury, Connecticut
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Today, the Glebe House Museum and Jekyll Garden is a non-profit educational institution... |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford, Connecticut
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This historic site includes the Visitor Center (1873 Carriage House), the Harriet Beecher... |
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Litchfield Historical Society & History Museum Litchfield, Connecticut
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The Litchfield History Museum invites visitors to explore the evolution of a small New... |
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Mark Twain House And Museum Hartford, Connecticut
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The Mark Twain House and Museum provides a rich treasury of Twain's triumphs and... |
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Middlesex County Historical Society Middletown, Connecticut
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The Historical Society is headquartered at General Mansfield House, one of the few... |
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Monte Cristo Cottage New London, Connecticut
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The Monte Cristo Cottage was the only permanent home of Eugene O'Neill from his birth in... |
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Noah Webster House West Hartford, Connecticut
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The Noah Webster House, probably built c. 1748, is the restored birthplace and childhood... |
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Weir Farm National Historic Site Wilton, Connecticut
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In June of 1882, painter J. Alden Weir boarded a train from New York bound for his modest... |
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Windsor Historical Society & Museum Windsor, Connecticut
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The Windsor Historical Society aims to inspire public awareness and appreciation of the... |
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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.
