Where will you go to celebrate America’s 250th birthday?
The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites is the ultimate resource for homeschool families seeking to explore America’s history through the real places where it happened. This interactive, nationwide guide helps parents identify and visit America’s historic sites—battlefields, museums, presidential homes, and landmarks—all while providing a clear assessment of how accurately each site presents the American story. Evaluated by scholars with subject-matter expertise, each site is reviewed for historical accuracy, comprehensiveness, and balance, helping parents make informed decisions about the sites they choose to visit.
Designed with your family in mind, the Guide allows users to browse America’s historic sites by state and view straightforward accuracy ratings and “considerations for families” with information on each site’s age appropriateness.
In detail, the Guide explains what your children are likely to encounter on tours and in exhibits. These evaluations help you prepare to have a meaningful discussion about the site and its significance to American history, highlight strengths and limitations in the site’s historical information, and encourage your children to think critically about how America’s history is presented. Whether visiting Revolutionary War landmarks or major sites from later eras of American history, your family can use the Guide as a reliable companion for learning on location.
The Guide enables your family to grow closer and more rooted, as one of the greatest benefits of visiting historic sites is that those visits often bring together families and Americans across generations—and away from screens.
Whether planning your family’s summer trip, or preparing for history-based field trips in the fall, the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites equips families to discover America’s heritage—one historic site at a time—with confidence and clarity.
