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Sewall-Belmont House (National Women's Party Headquarters)
Sewall-Belmont House (National Women's Party/Alice Paul)
Pittsburgh's Hill District_Malina Suity
In the 1950s, the city of Pittsburgh demolished 95 acres o...
Bosley Hall/The Old Baltimore Jail
It is ironic that local executives turned the Old Baltimor...
Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg
The Governor's Palace at Colonial Williamsburg was the hom...
Montgomery Bus Boycott
With the arrest of seamstress Rosa Parks, the thirteen-mon...
National Historic Landmark- Birnirk Site
Composed of a group of 16 mounds arranged in rows roughly ...
National Historic Landmark- Bering Expedition Landing Site
Here naturalist Georg W. Steller, surgeon aboard Vitus Ber...
National Historic Landmark- Attu Battlefield
Attu was the site of the only World War II battle fought i...
National Historic Landmark- Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall
The Tlingits founded the the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sis...
National Historic Landmark- Adak Army/Navy Base
Established in 1942, these World War II installations were...
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Sewall-Belmont House (National Women's Party Headquarters)
Sewall-Belmont House (National Women's Party/Alice Paul)
Home to the National Women's Party for over 80 years, the Sewall-Belmont house has seen America change from Revolutionary times into the modern age.
Built in the heart of Washington D.C. in 1799, and ...
Pittsburgh's Hill District_Malina Suity
In the 1950s, the city of Pittsburgh demolished 95 acres of the Lower Hill neighborhood to construct what would one day be the Civic Arena. The project displaced over 1,000 families, with many relocating to public housing, and cut a ...
Bosley Hall/The Old Baltimore Jail
It is ironic that local executives turned the Old Baltimore County Jail, which once housed convicted felons during the 18th and 19th centuries, into an office building.
Still showing off its pre-Civil War prison architecture, visitors to the city of ...
Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg
The Governor's Palace at Colonial Williamsburg was the home of seven royal governors as well as Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson during the eighty years that Williamsburg served as the capital of the Virginia Colony.
Construction of the Governor's Palace ...
Montgomery Bus Boycott
With the arrest of seamstress Rosa Parks, the thirteen-month Montgomery Bus Boycott brought national awareness of racial segregation on southern city bus lines.
Mrs. Parks refused the bus driver's demands to move from her seat for a white passenger. Her ...
National Historic Landmark- Birnirk Site
Composed of a group of 16 mounds arranged in rows roughly parallel to the beach, this site is associated with the Birnirk and Thule cultures, both belonging to the North Alaskan branch of the Northern Maritime tradition, the earliest manifestation ...
National Historic Landmark- Bering Expedition Landing Site
Here naturalist Georg W. Steller, surgeon aboard Vitus Bering's ST. PETER, made the first attempts at contact between Europeans and Alaskan natives.
His investigations are among the first contributions to the West's knowledge of the natural and human history of the ...
National Historic Landmark- Attu Battlefield
Attu was the site of the only World War II battle fought in North America. Its occupation by Japanese troops marked the peak of Japan's military expansion in the North Pacific.
Its recapture by Americans in 1943 was costly for both ...
National Historic Landmark- Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall
The Tlingits founded the the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood Society in Sitka in 1912 to fight discrimination against Alaska's natives and to obtain recognition of their rights and compensation for their lands.
In 1914 the Society built this large frame building ...
National Historic Landmark- Adak Army/Navy Base
Established in 1942, these World War II installations were the westernmost in the nation for a short while, and allowed American forces to mount a successful offensive against the Japanese-held Aleutian islands of Kiska and Attu.
Until very recently, Adak, ...