Historic Sites
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Anasazi Historical Site & State Museum Boulder, Utah
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Visit the museum and partially excavated prehistoric Indian village at Anasazi State Park... |
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Camp Floyd/stagecoach Inn State Park Museum Fairfield, Utah
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Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn State Park Museum is Utah's link with the Civil War. The... |
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Echo Church And Museum Echo, Utah
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This 1876 church is now a museum with a photographs collection and docent-led tours. |
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Fairview Museum Of History And Art Fairview, Utah
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The mammoth was unearthed on the nearby Wasatch Plateau in 1988 while excavating the... |
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Fort Douglas Fort Douglas, Utah
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The 1862 fort was built to protect telegraph and railroad lines from the Indian... |
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Hill Aerospace Museum Hill Air Force Base, Utah
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Hill Aerospace Museum is located on approximately 30 acres on the northwest corner of... |
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Park City Historical Society & Museum Park City, Utah
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The museum is currently closed. In spring of 2009 the Park City Museum will reopen after... |
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Uintah County Western Heritage Museum Vernal, Utah
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The museum of Uinta County displays artifacts from the region's history as well as art... |
American Heritage is proud to host the
National Portal to
Historic Collections
Recently added:
- American Revolution Center
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- National Museum of the U.S. Navy
- Manassas National Battlefield
- Maryland State House
In association with the
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.
