Honestly people are better off just going to historical sights, even with the propaganda you'll undoubtedly get from them being run by the National Parks Service. We are a young country, and many of our historical artifacts actually still exist in some form.
One of my moments of awakening as it were was visiting a battlefield for the War for Independence and discovering through the records they had on-site that one of my ancestors fought in that battle. Suddenly I had a connection to this place which made visiting it much more meaningful than it otherwise would have been. I wasn't expecting that to matter, but it did.
Honestly people are better off just going to historical sights, even with the propaganda you'll undoubtedly get from them being run by the National Parks Service. We are a young country, and many of our historical artifacts actually still exist in some form.
One of my moments of awakening as it were was visiting a battlefield for the War for Independence and discovering through the records they had on-site that one of my ancestors fought in that battle. Suddenly I had a connection to this place which made visiting it much more meaningful than it otherwise would have been. I wasn't expecting that to matter, but it did.