Historic Sites
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Chadds Ford Historical Society Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
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Three 18th-century structures remain in Chadds Ford - the John Chadds House, the John... |
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Edinboro Area Historical Society Edinboro, Pennsylvania
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The property where the house stands was purchased by John B. Clark before 1850 as part of... |
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Evangelical Historical Society Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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The society is located on the second floor of the Philip Schaff Library at Lancaster... |
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Grove City Area Historical Society Grove City, Pennsylvania
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The society is still relatively new, founded in 1998, but plans special events and... |
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Hanover Area Historical Society Hanover, Pennsylvania
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Hanover Area Historical Society, founded in 1965 by local citizens interested in... |
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Historical Society Of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The Society's building, designed by Addison Hutton and listed on the City of Philadelphia... |
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Manheim Historical Society Manheim, Pennsylvania
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This society, founded in 1964, has concentrated on collecting local artifacts and... |
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York County Heritage Trust York, Pennsylvania
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A collection of eight historical sites, the York County Heritage Trust offers visitors a... |
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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.
