Research Travel

Pictures, videos, and descriptions are wonderful for seeing and learning about the places that impacted the past, but there really are no adequate substitutes for physically exploring the sites...in person. Visiting and visually beholding great fields of battle, grand vistas, and museum artifacts, where events and pieces of enormous import creates awe and wonder. The following is a partial list of some of the places I have been able to experience in person. A few are more general cities, regions or even people. Those with pictures/videos hyperlink to the albums. While media may not replicate being there, it might be the next best thing.

Adena Mansion and Gardens Benjamin Harrison Home Berlin Bethsaida Bet Shem

Bull Run Camp Lejeune Camp Sherman Canal Fulton Canal Boats Capitol (U.S.)

Castillo de San Marcos Chancellorsville Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem) Church of the Holy Spulchre Colonial Willamsburg Commerzbank Tower Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame Concord Bridge

Dayton Airshow Dealey Plaza / Book Depository Doolittle Raiders Dome of the Rock

Fallen Timbers FDR Home and Library Flint Ridge Football Hall of Fame Fort Jefferson

Fort McHenry Fort Meigs Fort Miami Fort Recovery Fort Sumter Freedom Trail Fredricksburg Garst Museum Gettysburg Graceland Greenfield Village Greenville Treaty Henry Ford Museum Hopewell Mounds Indiana State Archives Indy 500 Speedway Jacob's Well Jamestown Fort

JFK Library Jefferson Monument Jerusalem Old City Lexington Green Library of Congress

Lincoln Library and Museum Lincoln’s Tomb Lorrain Motel Lowell Mill Factories / Canal & Locks Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Majestic Theater Masada Monticello Mt. Gerizim Mt. Vernon National Cathedral New Orleans New York City New York State Archives and Museum

Ohio History Connection State Archives and Museum Perry's Cave Perry's Monument Philadelphia Pickaway County Historical Society Plymouth Rock Ponce De Leon Park Qumran Caves (Dead Sea) Shiloh (West Bank) St. Augustine Lighthouse Reichstag Ross County Historical Society

Saratoga Battlefield Schulyler House Smithsonian Museum of American History

Smithsonian Air & Space Museum Slater and Wilkinson’s Mills Statue of Liberty The Alamo

Tel Dan Tel Aviv Tippecanoe Top Cottage / Val Kill Tuskegee Airmen USS Yorktown

Vanderbilt House Vermont Walden Pond Wall Street West Point Washington Monument

Western Wall White House William Jefferson Clinton Library

William McKinley Presidential Library Tomb and Monument Y Bridge Yorktown

Ohio State Capital Building

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May 18, 2020
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Updated: May 18, 2020

The Ohio State House was the second largest building in the United States at the time it was finished (behind only the U.S. Capital. In this 2015 Ohio History trip, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, it was decorated the way it was in 1865. The Ohio Capital building was one of many stops during his funeral trip back to Springfield.

View from the top of the cupola

The cupola used to be open to everyone all of the time and was a much loved spot for honeymooners, tourists, and many others. Today, it is still open but written permission from a state representative or senator is the only way to see it. Moreover, a waiver must be signed due to steep steps and general lack of accessibility.