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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum Springfield, Illinois
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The Illinois State Historical Library was created in 1889 by the Illinois General... |
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Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park Collinsville, Illinois
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization designated Cahokia... |
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Carl Sandburg Historic Site Galesburg, Illinois
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Visitors can tour Sandburg's birthplace, followed by a trip to the visitor center next... |
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Ernest Hemingway Birthplace And Museum Oak Park, Illinois
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The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Home is a large Victorian home built by his maternal... |
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Great Lakes Naval Museum Waukegan, Illinois
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With special emphasis on the boot camp experience, the museum documents the Navy way of... |
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Kenilworth Historical Museum & Research Center Kenilworth, Illinois
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The Kenilworth Historical Society was founded in 1922 to preserve and present the history... |
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Lincoln Douglas Debate Museum Charleston, Illinois
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Tour the only museum in Illinois retracing the senatorial debates of 1858 between Abraham... |
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Macon County Historical Museum And Prairie Village Decatur, Illinois
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Abraham Lincoln and his family made Macon County their first home in Illinois after... |
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Midway Village Museum Rockford, Illinois
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The museum depicts American life during the Victorian era through a historic village,... |
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Vermillion County Museum and Fithian House Danville, Illinois
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The true house Museum is housed in a home built by pioneer physician William Fithian, who... |
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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.
