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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Charles Robinson

Type: Person

Charles Robinson was the third Keeper stationed at the Sleeping Bear Point Life-Saving Station. He had ancestral ties to the Odawa people, as his grandparents were of Odawa heritage.

Valley Forge National Historical Park

Washington's Headquarters, also known as the Isaac Potts House, is the structure used by General George Washington and his household during the 1777-1778 encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge.

LGB Artists Working in Private and in the Spotlight: Apollo Theater, NY

Type: Article

The Apollo Theater in New York is an icon of the American jazz explosion and the Harlem Renaissance of the early 20th century, a cultural movement, which greatly influenced American arts and literature and has significant ties to various LGB communities. The Apollo became one of the most influential centers of black culture, showcasing some of the country's most popular artists and introducing new talent to the world through their infamous amateur nights.

Jane Addams

Type: Person

When Jane Addams penned Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes, she presented her life story as inextricably tied to her work in running a settlement house. Addams was born into an affluent family in Illinois, but comfort and leisure did not suit her. After spending much of her early life searching for outlets for progressive work, Addams became a reformer.

Katharine Lee Bates

Type: Person

Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.

Grand Portage National Monument

Fingerweaving

Type: Article

Fingerweaving is the art of making material with the fingers instead of a loom. Prior to European contact Indigenous peoples in North America wove and twined with plants and animal fibers for a multitude of purposes. We know the beautiful, dense, warp-faced arrow and lightning motif sashes created by changing the weft that we associate with the Fur Trade are uniquely tied to North America.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Harriet Colfax

Type: Person

Born along the St. Lawrence River, determined Harriet Colfax found herself far upstream along the treacherous coast of Southern Lake Michigan after moving to a young Michigan City in 1853. For 43 careful years she watched the rough frontier city blossom to a Duneland metropolis; she fearlessly maintained the harbor beacon as lighthouse keeper while enduring the ensuing hardships with her lifelong companion Ann Hartwell.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Derby House

Type: Place

Built in 1762 as a wedding present, this was the home of Elias Hasket Derby (1739-99) and Elizabeth Crowninshield Derby (1727-99) for the first 20 years of their marriage. They lived here with their seven children and enslaved at least two people of African descent. The Derby family became one of Salem’s wealthiest merchants, their wealth was tied to their trade in goods produced by slave plantations in the Caribbean Islands.

Fort Laramie National Historic Site

Oliver Nixon Unthank

Type: Person

Oliver Nixon Unthank at Fort Laramie

Site of the Revere House Hotel

Type: Place

The Revere House Hotel, which used to stand here at Bowdoin Square, has unique ties to the Underground Railroad history of Boston. Senator Daniel Webster spoke here to defend his views of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the slave catcher looking for Anthony Burns also stayed here.

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Fort Smith Goes to the Movies: Hang 'Em High (Site Bulletin)

Type: Article

Hang’em High is typical of many films of the western genre in that it took historical truth and exaggerated it to create a captivating movie. Learn more in this site bulletin.

Boston Common

Type: Place

Considered the oldest public park in the United States, Boston Common played an important role in the history of conservation, landscape architecture, military and political history, and recreation in Massachusetts. The Common and the adjoining Public Garden are among the greatest amenities and most visited outdoor public spaces in Boston.

Lovells Island

Type: Place

As one of the Boston Harbor Islands, Lovells Island has ties to the 1858 escape of Philip Smith on the Maritime Underground Railroad.

Alice North Lincoln

Type: Person

Born in Philadelphia on November 13, 1853, Alice North Towne Lincoln came from a prosperous family with ties to the Boston area. Lincoln moved to Boston to attend the School for Social Workers to follow her interests in social welfare and spent her life advocating for underserved people.

Boston African American National Historic Site

81-83 Phillips Street

Type: Place

This site had strong ties to the Underground Railroad while owned by John R. Taylor, William Manix, and Dr. John S. Rock.

Independence National Historical Park

Destruction by Fire of Pennsylvania Hall – May 17, 1838

Type: Article

This is a drawing of the destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall created by John Caspar Wild and printed by J.T. Bowen. Opened on May 14, 1838 on 6th Street near Race Street, Pennsylvania Hall stood for a mere few days till a white anti-abolition mob burned it down on the evening of May 17.

Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice, and the Murder of Emmett Till

Type: Article

Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice, and the Murder of Emmett Till was a one-object exhibition of a defaced historic marker that stood at the site where Emmett Till’s body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. The exhibit shared Till’s legacy with a focus on the local Mississippi story. It was on display at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. from April to September 2024.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Planning Your Winter Trip to Rocky

Type: Place

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Fort Pulaski

Type: Place

Fort Pulaski is an amazing feat of engineering and architecture from the early nineteenth century. On top of that, the fort is inextricably tied to the American Civil War.

Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area

Type: Place

A barn and an shed; the shed reading "Dockery Farms EST. 1895 by Will Dockery 1865 - 1936; Joe Rice Dockery"

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