Historic Sites
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Cottonwood Ranch Hoxie, Kansas
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John Fenton Pratt had no idea when he started building his ranch that it would someday... |
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Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum Abilene, Kansas
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Visitors can tour the nineteenth-century wood-frame house, located on its original site,... |
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Goodnow House Manhattan, Kansas
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A visit to the Goodnow House is more than a glimpse into domestic life in the 1800s, it... |
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Grinter Place Kansas City, Kansas
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A trip to Grinter Place isn’t just a look inside the oldest home in Wyandotte... |
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John Brown Museum Osawatomie, Kansas
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Reverend Samuel Adair and his wife, Florella were peaceful abolitionists who came to... |
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Koester House Museum Marysville, Kansas
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Still luxuriously furnished with the Koester belongings, including family portraits,... |
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Mueller Schmidt House Museum Dodge City, Kansas
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In an 1882 bird's-eye view of Dodge City, the Mueller-Schmidt House is proudly perched... |
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William Allen White House Lyon County, Kansas
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Visit the showplace home of William Allen White, nationally known newspaperman and author... |
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.
