This year marks the 200th Anniversary of the building of the people's house.
Maritime history is an important and exciting part of our past.
Click here to visit five types of ships, in desperate need of restoration, that influenced settlement and development around the world. The United States fought in World War I for just over nine months, and yet more than twice the amount of Americans were killed than in the decade we fought in Vietnam. Learn what it was like in the trenches, hospitals, and front lines from the soldiers and nurses who wrote letters home. The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad, but a secret network of safe houses and antislavery activists who helped slaves escape to freedom. Learn about the men, women and children who risked everything for a better way of life.