Historic Sites
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Bolduc House Historic Properties Sainte Genevieve, Missouri
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Built in 1770 out near the river on the Le Grand Champ field by Louis Bolduc, a Canadian... |
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Boone County Historical Society Columbia, Missouri
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The Boone County Historical Society was formally organized in 1963 and opened its first... |
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Campbell House Museum St. Louis, Missouri
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After a monumental five-year, $3 million restoration the museum now stands as one of the... |
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Daniel Boone Home Defiance, Missouri
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The adjoining Boonesfield Village is a collection of historic buildings from throughout... |
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George Washington Carver National Monument Diamond, Missouri
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George Washington Carver's favorite pastime was art. He painted landscapes and flowering... |
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Harry S. Truman National Historic Site Independence, Missouri
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Harry S Truman National Historic Site opened to the public on May 15, 1984. In her will,... |
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John Wornall House Museum & Herb Garden Kansas City, Missouri
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Now engulfed by Kansas City's Brookside neighborhood, the John Wornall House originally... |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home And Museum Mansfield, Missouri
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The Museum exhibits include artifacts spanning over a century of the lives of the... |
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Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site Florida, Missouri
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Details of Samuel Langhorne Clemens’ remarkable life are interpreted through... |
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Mark Twain Boyhood Home And Museum Hannibal, Missouri
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Discover how young Samuel Clemens grew up in the small village of Hannibal to become one... |
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Scott Joplin House State Historic Site St. Louis, Missouri
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In a modest walk-up flat, Scott Joplin and his new bride Belle began their life in St.... |
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Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site St. Louis, Missouri
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Ulysses S. Grant is known as the victorious Civil War general who saved the Union and 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.
