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Boot Hill Museum Dodge City, Kansas
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Step back into the 1870's as you walk down the boardwalk of Front Street at Boot Hill... |
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Brown V. Board Of Education National Historic Site Topeka, Kansas
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) is one of the most... |
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Carnegie Arts Center Dodge City, Kansas
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Formerly the library in Dodge City , this building was established sometime prior to 1905... |
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Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum Abilene, Kansas
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Visitors can tour the nineteenth-century wood-frame house, located on its original site,... |
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Fort Dodge Fort Dodge, Kansas
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Situated on a site once used as a camping ground by wagon trains, Fort Dodge was a supply... |
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Fort Hays Hays, Kansas
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Generals George A. Custer, Nelson Miles and Philip Sheridan, Major Reno, William "... |
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John Brown Museum Osawatomie, Kansas
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Reverend Samuel Adair and his wife, Florella were peaceful abolitionists who came to... |
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Kansas Museum Of History Topeka, Kansas
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Award-winning exhibits on the state's colorful past fill the spacious main gallery at the... |
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Koester House Museum Marysville, Kansas
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Still luxuriously furnished with the Koester belongings, including family portraits,... |
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Lyon County Historical Museum Emporia, Kansas
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The Lyon County Museum and Historical Society was founded in 1937. The current Museum... |
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Mcpherson County Old Mill Museum Lindsborg, Kansas
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The Smoky Valley Roller Mill was built in 1898. Unlike a grist mill which uses... |
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Mid America All Indian Center Museum Wichita, Kansas
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Exhibits of traditional artifacts and contemporary art depict the Native American... |
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Native American Heritage Museum Highland, Kansas
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Share in the journey of the Great Lakes Indian tribes who were forced to emigrate to... |
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Nicodemus National Historic Site Nicodemus, Kansas
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This was once an all-black town settled by former slaves fleeing the south in 1877 after... |
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Pawnee Indian Museum Republic, Kansas
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The Pawnee Nation was the dominant power of the Central Plains for hundreds of years.... |
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Pioneer Krier Museum Ashland, Kansas
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When the Clark County Historical Socity was organized in 1939, it was with the... |
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Pony Express Barn Museum Marysville, Kansas
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Though the Pony Express only ran mail across the frontier for 18 months between 1860 and... |
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Shawnee Indian Mission Fairway, Kansas
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In the 19th century, Americans wanted more land and settlement moved west. For countless... |
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Smoky Hill Museum Salina, Kansas
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The Museum’s collection features over 20,000 artifacts from the 1800s to 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.
