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Go to a library, ask the staff this question. They will help you more than we can.
The only advice I'll offer is start local. Focus on your State or Region first.
Great advice, thanks!
Saw this yesterday, and America being so huge, even if young, I had no idea how to answer.
But yeah, everywhere has a rich local history. I'm outside of Pensacola, FL, oldest European settlement. (OK, St. Augustine has been constantly inhabited. We got wiped off the map for a few years by a hurricane.)
It's the City of Five Flags. In order of our rulers: Spain, France, England, Confederacy, United States.
We've hosted conquistadors and pirates, serial killers from Judy Buenoano to Ted Bundy, and modern villains like Matt Gaetz.
See what I mean!