A historic site or heritage site is an official location where pieces of political, military, cultural, or social history have been preserved due to their cultural heritage value. Historic sites are usually protected by law, and many have been recognized with official historic status. A historic site may be any building, landscape, site or structure that is of local, regional, national, or global significance. Usually this also means the site must be at least 50 years or older.
One of the best known historic sites in Europe, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
Iron bed in torture room at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.
NPS employee talking to a group of students inside the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, D.C.
Bronze NRHP plaque mounted on historic building.
History is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.
Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) has been considered the "father of history" in the Western world.
History by Frederick Dielman (1896)
The title page to The Historians' History of the World
The title page to La Historia d'Italia