Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia

2 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia

THE ALMA MATER OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, JAMES MONROE, AND JOHN TYLER Three years before John Harvard left a legacy for the founding of the…

William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia: Church

By ordinance it was also decreed that a monument should be erected on the site. Later it was suggested that there should be built there, by…

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