Historic Sites
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Valentine Varian House Bronx, New York
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Blacksmith Isaac Valentine built this four-level fieldstone farmhouse in 1758 near the... |
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Valley Forge National Historic Park King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
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One of the most famous sites of the Revolutionary War, the name Valley Forge is... |
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Van Cortlandt Manor Croton On Hudson, New York
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At Van Cortlandt Manor, explore the stone manor house and brick ferry house, wander... |
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Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site Newburgh, New York
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In the critical months that General George Washington spent at Newburgh, he made some of... |
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William Paca House And Gardens Annapolis, Maryland
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The Historic Annapolis Foundation rescued this property from demolition in the 1960s. It... |
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Yellow Springs Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
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Historic Yellow Springs is a collection of 13 structures, 142 acres, and a collection of... |
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Yorktown Battlefield Yorktown, Virginia
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At this site in 1781, the British army under Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General... |
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Yorktown Victory Center Yorktown, Virginia
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Visitors can browse the outdoor exhibit walkway that details events that led to American... |
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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.
