United States

Travel destinations reviewed by The History Mom in the United States

Alabama

• Birmingham Civil Rights Historical Sites
• Civil Rights Road Trip
• Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson Historical Sites
• Montgomery Civil Rights Historical Sites
• US Space and Rocket Center

Arizona

• Grand Canyon National Park
• Petrified Forest National Park

California

• California Road Trip
• Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson Historical Sites
• Joshua Tree National Park
• Lou Hoover Historical Sites
• Lucretia Garfield Historical Sites
• Los Angeles
  • La Brea Tar Pits
• Nancy Reagan Historical Sites
• Pat Nixon Historical Sites
• San Diego
  • San Diego Air and Space Museum
  • USS Midway Museum
  • Whaley House at Old Town San Diego
• San Francisco
  • Alcatraz
• Yosemite National Park

Colorado

• Mamie Eisenhower Historical Sites

Connecticut

• Edith Roosevelt Historical Sites
• Helen Taft Historical Sites

Florida

• Bess Truman Historical Sites

Georgia

• Atlanta
  • Delta Flight Museum
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park
• Civil Rights Road Trip
• Eleanor Roosevelt Historical Sites
• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Mamie Eisenhower Historical Sites
• Rosalynn Carter Historical Sites
• The Wilson Women Historical Sites

Hawaii

• Pearl Harbor

Illinois

• Julia Grant Historical Sites
• Mary Lincoln Historical Sites

Indiana

• Anna Harrison Historical Sites
• Caroline Harrison Historical Sites
• Margaret Taylor Historical Sites

Iowa

• Lou Hoover Historical Sites
• Mamie Eisenhower Historical Sites

Kansas

• Mamie Eisenhower Historical Sites

Kentucky

• Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
• Anna Harrison Historical Sites
• Margaret Taylor Historical Sites
• Mary Todd Lincoln House
• Mary Lincoln Historical Sites

Louisiana

• Margaret Taylor Historical Sites
• New Orleans
  • National WWII Museum

Maryland

• Civil War Trails
• Ellen Arthur Historical Sites
• Frances Cleveland Historical Sites
• Harriet Lane Historical Sites
• Margaret Taylor Historical Sites

Massachusetts

• Abigail Adams Historical Sites
• Adams National Historical Park
• Boston Athenaeum
• Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum
• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Frances Cleveland Historical Sites
• Grace Coolidge Historical Sites
• Helen Taft Historical Sites
• Jacqueline Kennedy Historical Sites
• Jane Pierce Historical Sites
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
• Louisa Catherine Adams Historical Sites
• Plymouth

Michigan

• Betty Ford Historical Sites

Mississippi

• Julia Grant Historical Sites
• Margaret Taylor Historical Sites

Missouri

• Bess Truman Historical Sites
• Julia Grant Historical Sites

New Hampshire

• Frances Cleveland Historical Sites
• Jane Pierce Historical Sites

New Jersey

• Anna Harrison Historical Sites
• Caroline Harrison Historical Sites
• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Frances Cleveland Historical Sites
• Hamilton sites
• Julia Grant Historical Sites
• Lucretia Garfield Historical Sites
• The Wilson Women Historical Sites

New Mexico

• Los Alamos

New York

• New York City
  • Edith Roosevelt Historical Sites
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Historical Sites
  • Ellen Arthur Historical Sites
  • Elizabeth Monroe Historical Sites
  • Hamilton sites
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Historical Sites
  • Julia Grant Historical Sites
  • Lou Hoover Historical Sites
  • Morgan Library and Museum
  • New-York Historical Society
  • New York Public Library
  • Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
  • Tyler Women Historical Sites
• Abigail Fillmore Historical Sites
• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Frances Cleveland Historical Sites
• Ida McKinley Historical Sites
• Van Buren Women Historical Sites

North Carolina

• Civil War Trails
• Destination Booked – North Carolina
• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Asheville
  • Biltmore Estate
  • Grace Coolidge Historical Sites
• Charlotte area
  • Kings Mountain National Military Park
  • Sarah Polk Historical Sites
• Raleigh
  • Mordecai Historic Park/Andrew Johnson’s Birthplace
  • North Carolina Museum of History
• Triad
  • Dolley Madison Historical Sites
  • Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

North Dakota

• Edith Roosevelt Historical Sites

Ohio

• Anna Harrison Historical Sites
• Caroline Harrison Historical Sites
• Florence Harding Historical Sites
• Helen Taft Historical Sites
• Ida McKinley Historical Sites
• Lucy Hayes Historical Sites
• Lucretia Garfield Historical Sites

Pennsylvania

• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Gettysburg National Military Park
• Hamilton sites
• Harriet Lane Historical Sites
• Lancaster
  • James Buchanan’s Wheatland
• Mamie Eisenhower Historical Sites
• National Civil War Museum
• Philadelphia
  • Dolley Madison Historical Sites
  • Independence National Historical Park
  • Museum of the American Revolution
  • Valley Forge National Historical Park

Rhode Island

• Jacqueline Kennedy Historical Sites

South Carolina

• Charleston
  • Charleston museums
  • Fort Sumter
  • Nathaniel Russell House
• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Kings Mountain National Military Park

Tennessee

• Civil War Trails
• Eliza Johnson Historical Sites
• Mary Lincoln Historical Sites
• Memphis
  • National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel
• Nashville area
  • Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage
  • Parthenon
  • President James K. Polk Home and Museum
  • Rachel Jackson Historical Sites
  • Sarah Polk Historical Sites
  • Tennessee State Museum

Texas

• Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson Historical Sites
• Austin
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
• Dallas
  • George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Historical Sites
  • Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 
• Fort Worth
  • Stockyards and National Cowgirl Museum
• Waco
  • Mayborn Museum
  • Waco Mammoth National Monument

Vermont

• Ellen Arthur Historical Sites
• Grace Coolidge Historical Sites

Virginia

• Black History sites
• Civil War Trails
• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Hamilton sites
• Martha Washington Historical Sites
• The Wilson Women Historical Sites
• Virginia Presidential Sites Road Trip
• Virginia Road Trip
• Central
  • Appomattox Courthouse
  • Dolley Madison Historical Sites
  • Edith Roosevelt Historical Sites
  • Ellen Arthur Historical Sites
  • Elizabeth Monroe Historical Sites
  • Farmville
  • Fredericksburg National Military Park
  • George Washington’s Ferry Farm
  • Highland
  • Historic Kenmore
  • James Madison Museum
  • James Monroe Museum
  • Jefferson’s Ladies Historical Sites
  • Monticello
  • Montpelier
  • Moton Museum
  • Pamplin Historical Park and National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
  • Petersburg National Battlefield
    • Julia Grant Historical Sites
  • Richmond
    • Agecroft Hall and Gardens
    • American Civil War Museum
    • Berkeley Plantation
    • Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia
    • Destination Booked – Richmond
    • English Homes in America (Agecroft and Virginia House)
    • Henricus
    • Historic Polegreen Church
    • Historic St. John’s Church
    • Historic Westover
    • Hollywood Cemetery
    • Last week of the Civil War sites
    • Library of Virginia
    • Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
    • Maymont
    • Patrick Henry’s Scotchtown
    • Richmond Civil War Tour
    • Richmond National Battlefield Park
    • Sherwood Forest
    • Shirley Plantation
    • The Poe Museum
    • The Valentine
    • Tuckahoe Plantation
    • Tyler Women Historical Sites
    • Virginia Capital Trail
    • Virginia Holocaust Museum
    • Virginia State Capitol
    • Virginia Museum of History and Culture
    • Virginia War Memorial
    • Wilton House Museum
• Northern Virginia
  • Betty Ford Historical Sites
  • Helen Taft Historical Sites
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Historical Sites
  • Lucy Burns Museum
  • Mount Vernon
  • National Air and Space Museum – Udvar-Hazy Center
  • National Museum of the Marine Corps
  • National Museum of the United States Army
• Southwest Virginia
  • Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum
  • National D-Day Memorial
  • Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest
• Tidewater/Coastal
  • Colonial Williamsburg
  • First Landing State Park
  • Fort Monroe
  • Jamestown
  • Presidential Sites on Virginia’s Northern Neck
  • Yorktown
• Western Virginia
  • Lou Hoover Historical Sites
  • Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum

Washington, DC

• 5-day Itinerary
• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Ford’s Theatre
• Lincoln’s Cottage
• Museum of the Bible
• National Archives Museum
• National Mall Monuments and Memorials
• Octagon House Museum
• Smithsonian Museums along the National Mall
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
• The People’s House (a White House experience)
• The White House
• U.S. Capitol
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Washington National Cathedral
• First Lady Historical Sites
  • Caroline Harrison Historical Sites
  • Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson Historical Sites
  • Dolley Madison Historical Sites
  • Edith Roosevelt Historical Sites
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Historical Sites
  • Ellen Arthur Historical Sites
  • Elizabeth Monroe Historical Sites
  • Florence Harding Historical Sites
  • Frances Cleveland Historical Sites
  • Grace Coolidge Historical Sites
  • Harriet Lane Historical Sites
  • Helen Taft Historical Sites
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Historical Sites
  • Julia Grant Historical Sites
  • Lou Hoover Historical Sites
  • Lucretia Garfield Historical Sites
  • Mamie Eisenhower Historical Sites
  • Mary Lincoln’s Historical Sites
  • Pat Nixon Historical Sites
  • The Wilson Women Historical Sites

West Virginia

• Civil War Trails
• Dolley Madison Historical Sites
• Greenbrier Bunker and Presidents’ Cottage Museum
• Lucy Hayes Historical Sites

Wyoming

• Fossil Butte National Monument
• Grand Teton National Park
• Jackson Hole
• Yellowstone National Park
• Yellowstone/Grand Teton/Jackson Road Trip

Additional US posts

• 20th Anniversary of 9/11
• Black History Sites
• Civil Rights Road Trip
• Favorite American Revolution Historical Sites and Books
• Favorite Patriotic Historical Sites
• Historic Holiday Homes
• Historic Holiday Tours
• Historical Sites near a Beach