This change is not good:

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Surratt House participates annually in the national Blue Star Museums program administered through the NEH. Through this, active and retired members of the military receive free admission to participating museums between Memorial Day and Labor Day. They may bring up to five dependents with them, but all need to show a current military ID.

I have been working with our gov't. agency's Public Affairs and Marketing Division to advertise this, and one of the reps put together a teaser to send out to various news media in hopes that reporters would pick up on the human interest angle.

The following quote from that teaser shows a depressing statistic about the state of U.S. history among our middle school students. I suspect that the statistic does not change much, even on the college level...

"The most recent study conducted by The National Assessment of Educational Progress found only 18% of more than 11,000 eighth graders were ‘proficient’ in U.S. history."