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Willard Hotel
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The National Archives Center for Legislative Archives in Washington, D.C., houses Clifford K. Berryman’s political cartoons…
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Newseum Tet Offensive Exhibit
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The Bible in America, Part 2
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Herblock Political Cartoons
The Library of Congress houses the largest collection of political cartoons by Herbert Block, best known as Herblock. His…
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Lincoln Assassination News Reports
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House Where Lincoln Died
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U.S. Diplomacy Center Museum Collections, Part 2
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Liljenquist Civil War Photographs
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Grand Review Parade
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Drafting the U.S. Constitution
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center
Angela Crenshaw, a ranger with the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park, talked about the life of escaped…
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Saving Slave Houses Project
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Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kill Cottage
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's Top Cottage
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2017 LCV Cities Tour” in Hyde Park, New York, from May…
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Presidential Vehicles
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Hoover Presidential Library and Museum's "American Presidents" Exhibit
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"Remembering Vietnam" Tour
American History TV toured the National Archives exhibit “Remembering Vietnam,” the first comprehensive display there…
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Arch Street Meeting House
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Jefferson's Bible
The work of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Paper Conservation Laboratory project to preserve the “Jefferson…
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St. John's Church, Church of the Presidents
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World War I and American Art
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National World War I Museum and Memorial, Part 3
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U.S. Diplomacy Center Museum Collections, Part 1
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Slavery and Freedom Exhibit
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B&O Railroad Museum
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Virginia Capitol Building
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Old Manse and Ralph Waldo Emerson
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National World War I Museum and Memorial, Part 1
Matthew Naylor gave a tour of and talked about the National World War I Museum and Memorial, built to preserve the history of what…
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B&O Railroad and the Civil War
Daniel Toomey toured the the historic roundhouse building of the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.…
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General Lee's Headquarters at Gettysburg
Jim Lighthizer and Garry Adelman gave a tour of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Gettysburg headquarters and talked about…
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Railroads and Rail Cars
Transportation curator Matt Anderson gave a tour of the railroad exhibit at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn,…
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Kennedy Assassination Records
Martha Murphy, head of the Special Access and Freedom of Information Act staff at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, talked…
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John F. Kennedy's Life in Photos
Lawrence Schiller talked about the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection of dozens of images that chronicle the…
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Chief Justice John Marshall's Life and Legacy
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Henry Ford's Garage and Childhood Home
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Green Hill Plantation
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection
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Jackson's Flank Attack at Chancellorsville
Frank O’Reilly and Beth Parnicza led a tour through the Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville and spoke about General Thomas J. “Stonewall”…
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Heurich Family and Brewmaster's Castle
Kimberly Bender gave a tour of the Heurich House in Washington, D.C. The mansion, also called the Brewmaster’s Castle,…
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American Revolution 1760 to 1778
Scott Stephenson gave a tour of the Museum of the American Revolution’s core collection, featuring the story of the…
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Piscataway Park
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St. Elizabeths Hospital
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Military Aviation Museum, Part 1
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