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Virginia State Capitol Building Richmond, Virginia
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During the Civil War, the Confederate Congress also met at the state capitol building.... |
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Virginia Street Bridge Reno, Nevada
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There has been a bridge at this site since 1860, when C. W. Fuller constructed the first... |
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Vizcaya Museum And Gardens Miami, Florida
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His tenure at the site, stretching from 1916 to 1925, is today remembered in the museum's... |
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Waterhouse Residence Museum & The Carpentry Shop Museum Maitland, Florida
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The Waterhouse Residence Museum evokes the glamour and spectacle of Orange County in the... |
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Waveland Lexington, Kentucky
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Waveland is considered one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in... |
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Wayne County Historical Society & Museum Wooster, Ohio
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The Wayne County Historical Society and Museum believes it's the little things that count... |
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Webb Deane Stevens Museum Wethersfield, Connecticut
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The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, owned and managed by the National Society of the Colonial... |
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West Virginia Museum Of American Glass Weston, West Virginia
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The Museum showcases hundreds of pieces of American-made glass arranged by form and or by... |
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Wilderstein Historic Site Rhinebeck, New York
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The history of Wilderstein begins in 1852 with Thomas Holy Suckley's purchase of the... |
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William Holmes Mcguffey Museum Oxford, Ohio
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The mission of William Holmes McGuffey is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit... |
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Woodburn Dover, Delaware
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Historians credit Woodburn's historical importance as much to the home's architecture as... |
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Woodlawn Alexandria, Virginia
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The main Federal-style house was designed by the architect of the U.S. Capitol, Dr.... |
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Wylie House Museum Bloomington, Indiana
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The house is distinctive and unusual for south-central Indiana, a blend of Federal and... |
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Yagüez Theatre Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
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Originally constructed in 1909, the Yagüez Theater has been the leader in presenting... |
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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.
