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 ...

Pennsylvania Hall

Though the building only stood for four days, Pennsylvania Hall occupies an important place in the history of abolitionism and women's rights in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Hall was built in 1838 as a meeting hall for abolitionists in Philadelphia. Two thousand ...

National Historic Landmark- Cape Krusenstern Archeological Site

A series of 114 marine beach ridges, formed at an average of perhaps 60 years each since the time of the highest post-glacial sea level, the district contains the remains of peoples who have inhabited these beaches for 5,000 or ...

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 ...

Paul Lawrence Dunbar Apartment Complex

One of America's wealthiest men, John D. Rockefeller Jr., also expressed his generous spirit by contributing greatly to the African American community in New York City.

Rockefeller financed the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Complex, named after the nineteenth century African American ...

Independence Hall

Independence Hall served as the meeting location for some of the United States' most groundbreaking historical events, such as the signing of the Declaration of Independence and drafting of the United States Constitution.

Notable figures such as George Washington, Thomas ...

Supreme Court Building

Imagine Supreme Court Justices riding through the forest on horseback, black robes flowing behind them. With no permanent home, the first justices rode circuit around the countryside of our newly formed nation. Beginning in 1800 the court resided in the ...

U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial

The Battle for Iwo Jima, against the Japanese, during World War II, was one of the bloodiest battles in the history of the Marine Corps.

Marines suffered over 25 thousand casualties taking the island. The United States awarded twenty-seven Medals ...

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

Born a slave, the Reverend Charles Octavius Boothe was one of the Freedmen who established the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church after the Civil War. The church served the African American community of Montgomery for over one hundred years and gained ...

Crispus Attucks Gravesite

Boston, Massachusetts became the center of tension and rebellion in America during the years leading up to the American Revolution. On the streets of Boston, fights frequently broke out between American Patriots and British soldiers.

Problems came to a climax ...