They Created the Map Google Wouldn’t

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**Brenda Hafera** (0:58)
Introducing Meta Glasses.

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You have questions, they've got answers.

**John Bickley** (1:04)
Hey Meta, what's the capital of Peru?

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Lima.

**Brenda Hafera** (1:07)
How do you say, where's the restroom in Spanish?

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Dónde está el baño?

**Brenda Hafera** (1:12)
Hey Meta, is a hot dog a sandwich?

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Technically, no. Spiritually, yes.

**Brenda Hafera** (1:18)
Hey Meta, what should I do with my life?

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That's one of life's biggest questions. What do you think?

**Georgia Howe** (1:25)
Ask anything with the new Meta Glasses.

**Brenda Hafera** (1:32)
It was a lovely reminder of how inspiring, how rich the American heritage is.

**John Bickley** (1:39)
A new online guide to American heritage sites is underway with the goal of giving families a trustworthy one-stop resource for planning educational visits. The site gives insider tips for tourist activities and even grades the sites for the accuracy of their information.

**Georgia Howe** (1:55)
In today's episode, we speak to the woman spearheading the endeavor about the goals of the program and why it's so important to pass on the American story to the next generation. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley, and this is a weekend episode of Morning Wire.
Joining us now is Brenda Hafera, Assistant Director and Research Fellow for the Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Brenda, thanks for coming on.

**Brenda Hafera** (2:20)
It's a pleasure to be here.

**Georgia Howe** (2:22)
So, The Heritage Foundation has recently started compiling a list of historic sites across all 50 states. Just tell us, what was the inspiration for doing this?
Yeah.

**Brenda Hafera** (2:31)
So, the Heritage Guide to Historic Site is a product that pinpoints and evaluates historic sites all around the country, places like battlefields and forts, but also places like Mark Twain's house. Those are part of the American story as well.
And it pinpoints these places, and each site page provides information about what are the main tours and exhibits on offer, some recommended readings, why is this place significant, you know, what happened here, and then tips for families, which could be things like, you know, this tour may be accurate, but may not be age-appropriate. So, the goal of that is to encourage people, American citizens, to go to historic sites to celebrate America 250 this summer. This is how we re-educate ourselves about our heritage. So, that's one goal. And the second piece is the third-party accountability piece. Of each site receives a grade of A, B, or C, with A being good, B being a mixed bag, and C being actively distorted, based on accuracy and comprehension, proportionality, and ideological bias.

**Georgia Howe** (3:46)
Now, is this site that you're making competing with a pre-existing site that maybe the government does, or is this a whole new enterprise that you're working on?

**Brenda Hafera** (3:55)
No, it's completely new. There's nothing out there like it because it evaluates all kinds of sites. So, a lot of other sites focus on only sites owned by the National Park Service, or only sites in a specific state. This covers them all. We have 130 so far.
We have at least one in every state with the hope that folks will be able to find one within driving distance so they can make those family excursions. And it's also user-friendly, which some of those other sites are a little bit of a mixed bag, I would say.

**Georgia Howe** (4:28)
Now, what are some of the notable sites just off the top of your head that you have already reviewed and put on your website?

**Brenda Hafera** (4:34)
There are the big ones, of course, like Gettysburg. Speaker Newt Gingrich was kind enough to review that site for us. So, Battlefields, but also, I would say some of my favorite sites, Mount Vernon, of course, which preserves the indispensable man, George Washington. They're doing a great job. But some of my favorite are actually the lesser known, kind of off the beaten track sites. So, we have Noah Webster's House of Webster Dictionary Fame.