History in America vs. History in Israel

Throughout the entire semester, our Jewish History teachers have been emphasizing how everything we learn in class can be seen through the remains of the events that occurred all over Israel. Yesterday, we visited the crusader fortress where the Ashkenazi Jews had been persecuted. While I was sitting inside of one of the many well-preserved, stone rooms I realized that what our Jewish History teachers had been emphasizing was 110% true. At home, when we learn about American History, we don't necessarily feel the connection to what took place simply because we rarely get the chance to see where it happened and what's left from it. For example, when we learned about the American Revolution, we never got to visit Yorktown where the final battle took place. Or when we were learning about the Civil War, we never had a chance to visit the Southern states to see where we fought the Confederates. But in Israel, every time we learn about a major event that took place and influenced Judaism and Am Yisrael (the people of Israel) we go to the place in which that specific event occurred. Of course I realize that Israel is probably a hundred times smaller than the United States, so that definitely has an effect on why we can't travel to every place where some part of the history of America happened. But here in Israel, it's actually the coolest thing ever that we get to go to every preserved site where something super important and influential happened. In the beginning of the semester, I didn't really understand why our Jewish History teachers tried so hard to emphasize that everything we learn about can be proven through the remnants of each event, but now I realize that we are so lucky to be able to see exactly that.