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Showing 32,122 results for International Year of Caves and Karst ...
- Type: Article
Estimates of visitor use levels are important for informing park management decisions. The spatial and temporal extent and resolution of visitor use estimates can limit how they can be incorporated into management decisions, research, or paired with ecological data. This article recommends how visitor use monitoring can be approached more systematically and then used in parkwide predictive models of visitor use. NPS Intermountain Park Science, 2025
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Appalachian Clubhouse
- Type: Place
A large restored clubhouse rebuilt in 1934 and now available for daytime rental.
Jimmy Carter National Historical Park
Carter Family Vegetable Garden
- Type: Place
The Carter family maintained a vegetable garden to provide fresh food for their meals. Though primarily for the family, they often shared extra crops with neighbors.
- Type: Place
Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park
Thoburn's Redoubt
- Type: Place
The Confederate surprise attack in the pre-dawn fog of October 19, 1864 struck here against the 8th Corps first, then drove the rest of the Federal troops from their camps around Belle Grove Plantation.
Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park
128th New York Monument
- Type: Place
Veterans of New York's 128th Infantry Regiment dedicated a monument in memory of their comrades who died at the Battle of Cedar Creek. The monument marks the left end of the U.S. 19th Corps' position during the battle.
Jimmy Carter National Historical Park
Boyhood Farm Chicken Coop
- Type: Place
The chicken coop was an essential part of farm life, providing eggs and occasional meals for the Carter family. Young Jimmy was responsible for feeding the chickens and gathering eggs.
- Type: Place
Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park
Miller's Mill
- Type: Place
The brick house at Miller's Mill marks the farthest advance of the Confederate army. Early formed his line along Miller Lane, modern Cougill Road.
- Type: Place
Katmai National Park & Preserve
Pelagia Melgenak
- Type: Person
To learn the story of Pelagia (also spelled Palakia) Melgenak is to learn the sanctity of shared traditions, the loving bonds of kinship and the reverence of a spiritual connection to the land around you. Born in the late 1870s in the remote village of Savonoski in Alaska, Pelagia grew up learning about hunting, gathering, navigating and guiding in the area. That all changed in 1912 with the hot ash falling like a blanket covering the region with the eruption of Novarupta.
Lowell National Historical Park
Patrick J Mogan Cultural Center
- Type: Place
César E. Chávez National Monument
Marching for Justice in the Fields
- Type: Article
The farm workers who marched from Delano to Sacramento represented the large, seasonal labor force, composed overwhelmingly of people of color, whose labor made California’s thriving agricultural industry possible. Although their labor produced fortunes from the soil, they were subjected to poor wages and working conditions. This article is an introduction to the issues that motivated the Delano Grape Strike and the 1966 march.
César E. Chávez National Monument
Thirty Years of Farmworker Struggle
- Type: Article
Labor organizing has a long history in agriculture. Between 1930 and 1960, diverse groups of farmworkers in California struggled to form unions and to take collective action for better wages and working conditions. This article highlights the political and legal structures that made organizing in the fields especially difficult.
- Type: Place
César E. Chávez National Monument
The Terrain of Farmworker Life
- Type: Article
Large-scale commercial agriculture or agribusiness has shaped the landscape of California's Central Valley for over a century. This article explores the social and economic world created by agribusiness in and around the small city of Delano, with an emphasis on the lives of the predominately Filipino, Mexican, and Mexican American farm workers and their families.
César E. Chávez National Monument
A New Era of Farmworker Organizing
- Type: Article
This article explores changes in farm work and farmworker organizing that took place in the 1960s. The end of the Bracero Program, a strike wave, and the emergence of the Black Freedom Movement, all played a role in expanding the opportunities for farmworker organizing. So too did the emergence of a new organization, the National Farm Workers Association.
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Unita Zelma Blackwell (1933-2019)
- Type: Person
Born to sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, Blackwell rose from humble beginnings to become one of many unsung Black female heroines of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Blackwell was an outspoken critic of racial and economic inequality and the first Black female mayor elected in the state of Mississippi. We honor her as an ancestor for reminding us of the power to change the circumstances we were born into.
- Type: Person
Mrs. Recy Taylor was just 24 years old when she was brutally raped by six white men in Alabama. Upholding the Black woman's tradition of testimony and protest, Taylor actively participated in the pursuit to bring her attackers to justice. Though the men were acquitted in two separate trials, Taylor's courage speaks to the resolve of Black women to channel their pain and anger into political anger. We honor Taylor as an ancestor for teaching us a lesson on courage.
National Mall and Memorial Parks
Anna Arnold Hedgeman (1899-1990)
- Type: Person
Anna Arnold Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century’s most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice . We honor her as an ancestor for shattering glass ceilings imposed on her by her race and gender.