History can be a hard sell to a seven-year-old, right up until you put them somewhere it comes alive. Philadelphia lets them stand in the actual room where the Declaration of Independence was signed, Boston's Freedom Trail is a red line painted along the pavement linking sixteen historic stops, and colonial Williamsburg has actors in period costume going about eighteenth-century life like it's completely normal.
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Which city actually landed with your kids, and how old were they? And did anywhere surprise you by being far more fun than it sounded on paper?
