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This elephant seal breeding season, the single-day cow count peaked at 1,159 on 1/27, which is similar to last year’s peak count of 1,165. Pup counts were higher than the five-year average this season. This is likely due to the lack of strong storms this winter and thus high pup survival.
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Dr. Emma Silverman is the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Legacy of Monuments and Memory, 2020-2022.
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Dr. Mia Carey is the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, 2018-2021.
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Dr. Sylvea Hollis was the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Equality, 2018-2020.
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Dr. Eleanor Mahoney is the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of Labor and Productivity, 2018-2022.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Mead Museum
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The Mead Cultural Education Center, located in Yankton, South Dakota, was constructed in 1909 by Dr. Leonard C. Mead. Originally serving as part of the women’s ward for the Dakota Hospital for the Insane, the building was in use until the 1980s. Today, however, it houses the Dakota Territorial Museum and is upkept by the Yankton County Historical Society.
Pullman National Historical Park
National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
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The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum (NAPPRM) was founded in 1995 by Dr. Lynn Hughes. The museum is named Asa Philip Randolph and Pullman Porters, the men who made up the membership of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) union.
Presidio of San Francisco
Dr. Margaret "Mom" Chung
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Dr. Margaret “Mom” Chung was the first Chinese American woman to become a physician. She founded one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1920s. During World War II, she and her widespread network of “adopted sons,” most of them American soldiers, sailors, and airmen who called her “Mom,” became famous. Although she faced prejudice because of her race, gender, and sexuality, Dr. Chung forged a distinctive path throughout her life.
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Dr. Benjamin Church Jr., initially a supporter of the American Revolution and the first Surgeon General of the United States, was later exposed as a spy for the British. His involvement in the Revolutionary War is marked by a dramatic shift from being an esteemed physician and political figure to being court-martialed and banished for espionage, ultimately leading to his disappearance at sea.
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Working from his home in Northwest Washington, DC, Dr. Frank Kameny applied the ideas of the burgeoning civil rights movement to challenge and change negative perceptions of homosexuality and to fight discriminatory public policy.
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Located at 610 SW Alder Street, the Selling Building was built in 1910 and was added to the National Register in 1991 for its historic and architectural significance. Early tenants of the building were physicians and dentists including psychologist J. Allen Gilbert who, in 1917, treated Dr. Alan Hart (nee Alberta Lucille Hart) for sexual inversion. Despite categorizing Hart's condition as pathological and abnormal, Dr. Gilbert eventually supported Hart's transition.
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Dr. Clyde Wahrhaftig was a geologist, LGBTQ activist, environmentalist, and scientist who studied the geology of Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Yosemite National Park.
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Marie Equi was born in 1872 in New Bedford. A homesteader in Oregon, Marie became a physician and activist. Equi was placed in charge of obstetrics at the United States Army General Hospital in the Presidio of San Francisco. She was subsequently decorated by the U.S. Army for her humanitarian efforts.
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An American feminist, suffragist, suspected spy, prisoner of war and surgeon, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker remains the only women ever to receive the Medal of Honor, which she was awarded for her service during the Civil War.
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By the mid-1880s, Shaw was establishing herself as an advocate for temperance, a cause she took in part because of her time doing medical work in Boston. She first worked as a paid lecturer with the Massachusetts Women Suffrage Association, a position she secured through her connections with the prominent suffragist Lucy Stone. Moving up the ranks, Shaw was subsequently hired to work with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, or WCTU, a national organization.
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This educational article explores the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. While most of us are familiar with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it was Rustin who planned the 1963 March on Washington (A. Philip Randolph) and introduced the tactic of nonviolence to the movement.
Johnstown Flood National Memorial
Reverend Dr. David J. Beale
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Dr. David J. Beale served at First Presbyterian Church in Johnstown and was appointed a superintendent of the city morgues after the Johnstown Flood.
Boston National Historical Park
Dr Joseph Warren
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Joseph Warren was, undoubtedly, the hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill and by dying on that hill that June day in 1775; he became the embodiment of the young nation’s sacrifice.
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Text of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in 1956 about school integration and the Brown v. Board decisions.
Boston African American National Historic Site
Site of Dr. Henry Bowditch's Home
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8 Otis Place, the home of abolitionist Dr. Henry Bowditch, served as the first location for the 1846 Vigilance Committee.