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Adams Museum And House Deadwood, South Dakota
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In 1930 pioneer businessman W.E. Adams founded the Adams Museum in downtown Deadwood with... |
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City Of Deadwood Deadwood, South Dakota
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What you'll see in Deadwood today is a careful, accurate restoration of a historically... |
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Codington County Historical Society Watertown, South Dakota
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The museum staff provides group tours, research assistance, programs, workshops, and... |
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Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation Crazy Horse, South Dakota
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It's been nearly 35 years since the construction of the first wing of the Indian Museum... |
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D.c. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery Spearfish, South Dakota
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The hatchery was constructed to propagate, stock, and establish trout populations in the... |
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Dacotah Prairie Museum Aberdeen, South Dakota
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The idea for a community museum in Aberdeen dates back almost 70 years. In 1938, John... |
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Dakota Discovery Museum Mitchell, South Dakota
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Dakota Discovery Museum is attracting kids and their parents with exhibits and new ways... |
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Museum Of The South Dakota State Historical Society Pierre, South Dakota
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The Museum of the South Dakota State Historical Society collects, preserves, and... |
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Timber Lake & Area Historical Society Timber Lake, South Dakota
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The museum includes The Warrior Collection, a complete set of traditional Lakota clothing... |
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W.h. Over Museum Vermillion, South Dakota
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The Lakota Family Camp displays many of the artifacts made in the early 20th century in... |
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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.
