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A new executive order is designed to strengthen the NPS’s recognition of women’s history landmarks.

The history of the American West is often whitewashed, but these museums, monuments, and historic sites help preserve a significant chapter.

Visitors come to paddle, picnic, and bike along Folsom Lake, rarely realizing they’re standing on the site of a once-booming Black Gold Rush settlement.

People may know this high-desert destination as a quirky art outpost, but a new national historic site underscores a lesser-known part of Marfa’s past.

Follow paths once walked by Indigenous people, soldiers, enslaved Africans, and overshadowed women, from Georgia to New Hampshire.

The hope is that preserving this Japanese American internment camp in Colorado will inform future generations about a shameful part of U.S. history.

From a historic church to a quiet grave site, Auburn, New York, tells the story of Harriet Tubman’s life after the Underground Railroad and why those final 50 years are as important as her courageous rescues.

The 2026 expansion adds sites across the South, including a Virginia courthouse tied to the court case “Loving v. Virginia” and two music museums in Nashville.

Each year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation releases a list of the cultural sites facing the biggest threats in an effort to raise awareness about the risks they face and to protect their future.

Florida is often overlooked in conversations about the Civil Rights Movement, but the state—specifically St. Augustine—played an integral role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Do a deep dive into the South Carolina city’s history and cuisine by wandering the streets with an expert guide.

Hop on a plane or crowd into a car: The history of Black liberation is a road trip away.

Once a holding cell for kidnapped Africans, the island’s House of Slaves is today a UNESCO World Heritage site—and the site of healing and atonement.

Book a storied stay at one of these winners of the 2023 Historic Hotels of America Annual Awards of Excellence.