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Bellingham International Maritime Museum Bellingham, Washington
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The museum focuses on the maritime and naval history of the United States. Its collection... |
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Museum Of Flight Seattle, Washington
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The independent, non-profit Museum of Flight is one of the largest air and space museums... |
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Naval Undersea Museum Keyport, Washington
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The museum's 25,000 square feet of exhibit space incorporate a display about submarines... |
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Raleigh County Vets Museum, Inc. Rd.Beckley, Washington
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State Capital Museum and Outreach Center Olympia, Washington
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Located in the historic Lord Mansion, seven blocks south of the capital campus in Olympia... |
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Uss Turner Joy Bremerton, Washington
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The USS Turner Joy (DD-951), famed Navy destroyer from the Vietnam War, is now maintained... |
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Volunteer Park Seattle, Washington
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For more than a century Volunteer Park has been the center of Seattle's park system.... |
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Washington State Historical Society Tacoma, Washington
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Founded in 1891 and now into its second century of service, the Washington State... |
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Washington State History Museum Tacoma, Washington
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People of all ages can explore and be entertained in an environment where characters from... |
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Wawona Seattle, Washington
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The three-masted, bald-headed (having no topmasts) Wawona is the largest sailing schooner... |
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White River Valley Museum Auburn, Washington
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Located in Auburn's Les Gove Park, the White River Valley Museum tells the story of South... |
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Whitman Mission National Historic Site Walla Walla, Washington
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The 1847 Whitman “Massacre” horrified Americans and impacted the lives 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.
