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Buffalo Bill Museum Le Claire, Iowa
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Other exhibits feature riverboat pilots, the Sauk and Fox Indian tribes, pioneers of... |
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Floyd County Museum Charles City, Iowa
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The Floyd County museum is one of the largest rural county museums in all of the Midwest... |
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Grinnell Historical Museum Grinnell, Iowa
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Ever since its establishment, the museum has been a collective effort. For women's groups... |
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Hoggatt School Ames, Iowa
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The first schoolhouse in the vicinity was built in 1862 to serve area residents before... |
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Iowa Great Lakes Maritime Museum Arnolds Park, Iowa
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View rare artifacts and immerse yourself in the lore of the Iowa Great Lakes. See a rare... |
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Iowa Museum Association Cedar Falls, Iowa
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The Iowa Museum Association works with Iowa Museums to improve educational programs,... |
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National Motorcycle Museum Anamosa, Iowa
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The museum was founded in 1989 by motorcycle lovers who wanted to keep the history... |
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Sanford Museum And Planetarium Cherokee, Iowa
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The Sanford Museum offers a variety of educational programs for groups on various... |
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The Danish Immigrant Museum Elk Horn, Iowa
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The actual structure of the museum site is a half-timbered building set on 20 acres of... |
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The Union Pacific Railroad Museum Council Bluffs, Iowa
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The Union Pacific Collection dates to the mid-1800's, featuring original editions of... |
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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.
