Roads of History
Road Trips across the United States

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Historic Road Trips

Ready-to-use routes with meaningful stops, trip details, and stories for the road.

Featured view for Arkansas Statehood & the Making of Little Rock
105 mi · 2 Days

Arkansas Statehood & the Making of Little Rock

Connect the pivotal 1862 battles at Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove with Fort Smith’s Civil War and frontier history.

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Featured view for Civil War Northeast Florida
111 mi · 2 Days

Civil War Northeast Florida

Explore coastal defenses, Jacksonville earthworks, and Florida’s largest Civil War battle on a two-day journey across Northeast Florida.

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Featured view for Defending the Delaware: Forts from Civil War to World War II
90 mi · 2 Days

Defending the Delaware: Forts from Civil War to World War II

Follow a century of Delaware coastal defense from a Civil War island fortress to a modernized river fort and the World War II batteries at Cape Henlopen.

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Featured view for Little Rock: From Segregation to Civil Rights
3 mi · 1 Days

Little Rock: From Segregation to Civil Rights

Trace Little Rock’s Black history and the 1957 school-integration crisis through three nationally and statewide significant sites.

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Featured view for New York Harbor at War
48 mi · 2 Days

New York Harbor at War

Explore shipbuilding, naval aviation, coastal defense, and an aircraft carrier across the military landscape of New York Harbor.

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Featured view for Revolutionary Boston: From Protest to Independence
4 mi · 2 Days

Revolutionary Boston: From Protest to Independence

Walk through the meeting halls, streets, waterfront, and battle landscape where Boston’s resistance to British rule became revolution.

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Featured view for The First State: From Independence to Ratification
59 mi · 1 Days

The First State: From Independence to Ratification

Follow Delaware's path from colonial independence to statehood through its first capitol, a founding-era plantation, and Dover's historic seat of government.

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Featured view for Arkansas Statehood & the Making of Little Rock
3 mi · 1 Days

Arkansas Statehood & the Making of Little Rock

Follow Arkansas from territorial-era Little Rock through statehood and into the construction of its modern seat of government.

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Featured view for Atlanta's Black Freedom Story: Enterprise to Civil Rights
9 mi · 2 Days

Atlanta's Black Freedom Story: Enterprise to Civil Rights

Explore Black enterprise, civil-rights leadership, movement history, and remembrance across four major Atlanta institutions and historic places.

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Featured view for Brandywine Legacy: Powder Mills to du Pont Estates
10 mi · 1 Days

Brandywine Legacy: Powder Mills to du Pont Estates

Trace the du Pont family's Delaware story from the gunpowder works that launched an industrial empire to two grand estates shaped by later generations.

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Featured view for Cherokee Nation to Removal: A Northwest Georgia Journey
90 mi · 2 Days

Cherokee Nation to Removal: A Northwest Georgia Journey

Trace Cherokee political life, leadership, prosperity, resistance, and forced removal across four northwest Georgia sites tied to the Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears.

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Featured view for FDR's Georgia: Warm Springs and the New Deal
14 mi · 1 Days

FDR's Georgia: Warm Springs and the New Deal

Spend a day in the Georgia landscape that became Franklin D. Roosevelt's refuge, political laboratory, and enduring New Deal legacy.

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Featured view for Forts and Frontiers: Georgia's Colonial Coast
164 mi · 2 Days

Forts and Frontiers: Georgia's Colonial Coast

Follow Britain's contested Georgia frontier from an early Darien outpost through Frederica and Bloody Marsh to colonial settlement and Revolutionary defenses near Savannah.

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Featured view for Freedom Through Delaware: Underground Railroad Stories
57 mi · 1 Days

Freedom Through Delaware: Underground Railroad Stories

Follow stories of freedom seekers and anti-slavery resistance through the courthouse, home, and legal sites that preserve Delaware's Underground Railroad history.

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Featured view for From Chattanooga to Atlanta: Georgia's 1864 Campaign Corridor
117 mi · 2 Days

From Chattanooga to Atlanta: Georgia's 1864 Campaign Corridor

Follow the rail corridor and battlefield landscapes that frame the Union advance from the Chattanooga region toward Atlanta and the struggle to hold its supply line.

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Featured view for Lewes & the Coast: Settlement, War, and Maritime Rescue
13 mi · 1 Days

Lewes & the Coast: Settlement, War, and Maritime Rescue

Explore Delaware's coastal history from Dutch settlement and colonial port life through the War of 1812 and the lifesaving crews who patrolled a dangerous shoreline.

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Featured view for Mounds & Mississippian Worlds of Eastern Arkansas
158 mi · 2 Days

Mounds & Mississippian Worlds of Eastern Arkansas

Travel from the monumental Plum Bayou mound center to late-precontact communities preserved at Parkin and interpreted through the Nodena collection at Hampson.

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Featured view for Rohwer & Jerome: Japanese American Incarceration in Arkansas
31 mi · 1 Days

Rohwer & Jerome: Japanese American Incarceration in Arkansas

Visit the surviving landscapes, memorials, and museum that interpret Arkansas’s two World War II Japanese American incarceration centers.

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Featured view for Sherman's March to the Sea: Milledgeville to Savannah
211 mi · 2 Days

Sherman's March to the Sea: Milledgeville to Savannah

Trace Sherman's 1864 March to the Sea from Georgia's wartime capital through a documented headquarters stop to the capture of Fort McAllister and occupation of Savannah.

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Featured view for The Camden Expedition: Arkansas’s Red River Campaign
123 mi · 2 Days

The Camden Expedition: Arkansas’s Red River Campaign

Follow the 1864 Camden Expedition from Arkansas’s Confederate capital through the battlefield sequence that ended the Union advance.

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