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Hallie Quinn Brown (ca. 1850- 1949)

Type: Person

There are people who give great speeches, and they there are those who perform them. Hallie Quinn Brown was one of the few who perform speeches. In her era, she was recognized as one of the greatest elocutionists across two continents, Europe and America. Though she rarely appears in history books, Brown’s legacy can be found in today’s speech-language pathologists and spoken word artists. She lectured widely on the cause of temperance, women’s suffrage, and civil rights. We

Hampton National Historic Site

Sophia Gough Ridgely Howard

Type: Person

Sophia Gough Ridgely Howard went against the norms of her time and took a silent stand against the institution of slavery the best way she knew how. According to several historical accounts, she helped influence her father, Charles Carnan Ridgely, to manumit (free) many of those he enslaved. She championed what she thought was right, a stand that led to a rift in the family, though she never lived to see the impact of her actions. Pushing for social change.

Montgomery County (Dayton), Ohio

Type: Place

In 1940 the federal government allocated funds for the improvement of Wright Field and to create the United States Army Air Corps. Wright Field participated in diverse military operations during World War II. Montgomery County residents joined in scrap drives, grew victory gardens, lived with rationing and blackout regulations, and served in civil defense programs. Today the community is home to a number of institutions that commemorate the home front.

Expressions as Diverse as the Landscape: Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN

Type: Article

Indiana University zoologist and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey conducted pioneering research to challenge ideas of normativity and discriminatory laws regarding sexual behavior. Kinsey collected as broad and complete a sample of individual American sexual histories as possible through a rigorous interviewing process. The resulting research is arguably the most comprehensive, detailed, and sophisticated sex study ever conducted.

Series: On Their Shoulders: The Radical Stories of Women's Fight for the Vote

Type: Article

These articles were originally published by the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission (WSCC) as a part of the WSCC blog, The Suff Buffs. The Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission was created by Congress to commemorate 100 years of the 19th Amendment throughout 2020 and to ensure the untold stories of women’s battle for the ballot continue to inspire Americans for the next 100 years. In collaboration with the WSCC, the NPS is the forever home of these articles

Frances Benjamin Johnston

Type: Person

Johnston was the first woman to professionally photograph Mammoth Cave, she went on to photo-document life, blue collar workers and presidents alike.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

Black History in the Last Frontier: Company L, 24th Infantry

Type: Article

Black soldiers were among the first members of the United States military to arrive in Alaska on the heels of the Klondike Gold Rush. Today, arguably no single institution has had as large of an impact on Alaska as the United States military. The men who served in Company L, 24th Infantry might thus be seen as among the first soldiers who initiated a long, deep relationship between the military and Alaska.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Benjamin O. Davis Jr.

Type: Person

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., was born in Washington, D.C. in 1912. He graduated from West Point in 1936. He was the fourth African American to graduate from West Point. During World War II, he led the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. He attained the rank of four-star general in 1998. He died in 2002 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Boston National Historical Park

Pauline Agassiz Shaw

Type: Person

Known for her generous philanthropy, Pauline Agassiz Shaw invested in education, immigrant communities, reform groups, and women’s suffrage. Supporting more than 30 schools in addition to social service institutions in the Greater Boston area, Shaw “put something better than money into her work: she put her heart and soul into it.”

Air(wo)man Discovered and Honored

Type: Article

Did you know that the Tuskegee Airmen included women? Sergeant Amelia Jones worked for two years during WWII in the 99th Pursuit Squadron under Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, commander of the Tuskegee Airmen. She was honored for her service in 2014.

Emancipation and the Quest for Freedom

Type: Article

Although the abolition of slavery emerged as a dominant objective of the Union war effort, most Northerners embraced abolition as a practical measure rather than a moral cause. The war resolved legally and constitutionally the single most important moral question that afflicted the nascent republic, an issue that prevented the country from coalescing around a shared vision of freedom, equality, morality, and nationhood.

Samuel Gridley Howe

Type: Person

Samuel Gridley Howe is known as the first director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Massachusetts and a notable abolitionist during the Civil War era.

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Cherokee Bill: On the Outlaw Trail (Site Bulletin)

Type: Article

Probably the most famous outlaw that was hanged on the Fort Smith gallows was Crawford Goldsby, alias Cherokee Bill. Read about his run-ins with the law in this site bulletin.

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.

Florida State University Civil Rights Institute (Tallahassee, Florida)

Type: Article

The Civil Rights Institute (CRI) at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida commemorates, celebrates, and studies the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to promote justice and equality at Florida State and in local communities.

Independence National Historical Park

Our Alma Mater: An Address – May 10, 1864

Type: Article

This is the address that Octavius V. Catto gave to the 1864 graduating class of the Institute for Colored Youth. Catto spoke on the history of the school, their Quakers funders, and encouraged the class to do what they could for the improvement of the formerly enslaved people who will join society with the “reorganization of the Union.”

Margaret Murray Washington

Type: Person

Margaret Murray Washington, born in poverty, dedicated her life to the betterment of her race, from locally to internationally.

Taking Flight

Type: Article

Since 1989, efforts to monitor the populations of songbirds have been in motion by the Institute for Bird Populations (IBP). A program the IBP started called MAPS, Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship, took flight with stations across the North American continent. Since its liftoff, more than 1,200 stations have collected more than 2.5 million bird capture records. About 300 are active today.

Tabernacle Baptist Church (Augusta, Georgia)

Type: Article

Founded in the 1880s, Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, has been an important community institution since its founding. It played an active role in the modern civil rights movement in the city.

Shaw University (Raleigh, North Carolina)

Type: Article

Shaw University is a historically Black university located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1865 Shaw was the first institution of higher education for African Americans in the southern United States.

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