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Battle Acre Park Dundalk, Maryland
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The Battle of North Point occurred at this site on September 12, 1814. Battle Acre Park... |
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Bladensburg Waterfront Park Bladensburg, Maryland
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This park sits on the site of the pivotal Battle of Bladensburg during the War of 1812,... |
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Catoctin Mountain Park Thurmont, Maryland
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt created programs to give people a chance to rebuild their... |
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Chesapeake And Ohio Canal National Historic Park Hagerstown, Maryland
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Originally, the C&O Canal was a lifeline for communities and businesses along the... |
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Jefferson Patterson Park And Museum St. Leonard, Maryland
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Seventy archaelogical sites have discovered 9,000 years of human habitation of this area... |
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Monocacy National Battlefield Frederick, Maryland
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The Visitor Center includes numerous interactive and multimedia exhibits, including... |
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Mount Calvert Historical And Archaeological Park Upper Marlboro, Maryland
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Mount Calvert's rich archaeological and historical resources represent over 8,000 years... |
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North Point State Park Edgemere, Maryland
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This waterfront park on the Chesapeake Bay was once the site of the Bay Shore Amusement... |
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Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Hill Farm Oxon Hill, Maryland
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The area has been inhabited since Native Americans lived here until the 17th century. In... |
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Patterson Park Baltimore, Maryland
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Patterson Park is a large public park in Baltimore with many recreational activities and... |
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Point Lookout State Park Scotland, Maryland
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The location of a Civil War prison camp on the Chesapeake Bay now serves as a... |
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South Mountain State Park Boonsboro, Maryland
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South Mountain, a ridge composed largely of resistant quartzite, posed a formidable... |
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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.
