4th of July

Celebrate with your own virtual fireworks, then dive into iconic American monuments

In collaboration with

National Park Service, Museum Management Program

National Constitution Center

U.S. Department of the Interior Museum

This fourth, make your own fireworks

Create your own fireworks show over major U.S. monuments

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Light Up The Sky

From the Golden Gate Bridge to the Statue of Liberty

4th of July Crossword

Keep the Games Going

With this Fourth of July-themed crossword!

The Grand Canyon in Arizona

The landmark is an extraordinary geological phenomenon

The Canyon's Remarkable History

Discover colorful rock layers, magnificent buttes, and shadowy side canyons

Check Out the Top Spots

From Angel's Widow to Mather Point, check out the Canyon in Street View

More Grand Canyon

Dive into over 700 photographs, paintings, and artifacts from Grand Canyon National Park

Inspiring painters for centuries

Zoom in to some of the most beautiful paintings of the canyon's iconic landscape

Grand Canyon from Hermit Rim Road

Thomas Moran

The Grand Canyon

Elliott Daingerfield

Horseshoe Bend

Mary Ann Judd Johnson

Grand Canyon

Frank Scherschel

Grand Canyon with Rainbow

Thomas Moran

Evening, Grand Canyon

Lucien Whiting Powell

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Thomas Moran

Grand Canyon

Thomas Moran

Chasm of the Colorado

Thomas Moran

The Statue of Liberty in New York

America's symbol and icon

5 Things You May Not Know About the Statue of Liberty

Take a guided tour of the landmark and learn something new

More Statue of Liberty

Discover over 800 photographs, paintings, and artifacts of the statue

Take a Virtual Tour

Take a walk around the statue using Street View

How to Build an Icon

The statue under construction was a sight to see

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

Dive into historical photographs to see the bridge from a new angle

Under construction

Archival images of a landmark once called "the bridge that couldn't be built"

Independence Hall in Philadelphia

Where the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were debated and adopted

Mount Rushmore in South Dakota

U.S. presidents carved in stone

Commemorating Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln

Discover images and artifacts from the monument

Explore the monument in Street View

Click and drag to take a tour around the park

The National Park Service in South Dakota

Learn from the NPS Mount Rushmore collection

The founding documents

Take a closer look at the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

Documenting the Nation's Founding

Written in Philadelphia three centuries ago, the United States Constitution was a bold experiment

Step inside presidential homes with Street View

Take a guided tour through the homes of Lincoln, Roosevelt, and more

Virtual Tour of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

The author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd president of the U.S.

Virtual Tour of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Home

“My heart has always been here. It always will be.” — FDR

Virtual Tour of Abraham Lincoln's Home

The home he purchased after 28 years living in a log cabin

Virtual Tour of Theodore Roosevelt's Home

A rambling 23-room home where little has changed since the family lived there

Virtual Tour of Harry Truman's Home

The 33rd president's Midwestern home

Virtual Tour of Martin Van Buren's Home

The house was the seat of antebellum Democratic politics

Virtual Tour of Andrew Johnson's Home

The 17th president's hat is still in his bedroom

Democracy and civil rights are intertwined

Stories exploring the deep connection between democracy's history and the fight for equality

Watch: history in action

Videos exploring the civil rights movement

JFK on Civil Rights

LBJ's Remarks on the Signing of the Civil Rights Act

1972 Civil Rights Symposium

LBJ Signs the Civil Rights Act

The March on Washington in Photographs

Women's suffrage and the fight for the vote

Thanks to tireless activism and leadership, American women won the vote in 1920

Women's Suffrage in the US

Go back in time to see the iconic places and meet the women that fought tirelessly

Parading for Progress

The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession through Washington, DC changed the way America protested

The 19th Amendment

Listen to original speeches from the early days of the movement

Thank you, Susan B. Anthony

Best known for her work on voting rights, there is so much more to this amazing figure

Meet the Leaders

Telling a more complete story by including previously-overlooked activists

Want more American history?

Explore "American Democracy"

From women's suffrage to presidential campaigns, explore the fascinating evolution of American democracy