Historic Sites

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	Buffalo And Erie County Naval And Military Park Buffalo, New York	Besides viewing exhibits and ships, creative use of the park has spanned an incredibly...
	Destroyer Escort Historical Museum: Uss Slater Albany, New York	Moored on the Hudson River in Albany, New York, the USS Slater has undergone an extensive...
	South Street Seaport Museum New York, New York	The South Street Seaport Museum preserves and interprets the history of New York City as...
	Submerged Heritage Preserve Program Lake George, New York	Marked by buoys and open to divers are seven of the 900 bateaux used during the British...

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Buffalo, New York

Besides viewing exhibits and ships, creative use of the park has spanned an incredibly...

Albany, New York

Moored on the Hudson River in Albany, New York, the USS Slater has undergone an extensive...

New York, New York

The South Street Seaport Museum preserves and interprets the history of New York City as...

Lake George, New York

Marked by buoys and open to divers are seven of the 900 bateaux used during the British...

Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?

“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.
65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
“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.
The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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.
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.