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Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail
Reverend James Reeb
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Rev. James Reeb came to Selma in March of 1965 to lend his voice to the voting rights movement after the attack known as Bloody Sunday. He was fatally wounded by white segregationists on March 9, 1965. His death was one of many that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Homestead National Historical Park
Maria Hayes – Canadian County, Oklahoma
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A small selection of Black Homesteaders in the state of Oklahoma were chosen to be highlighted by researchers at the University of Oklahoma. This story is one of many.
Grand Canyon National Park
North Rim General Store
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CLOSED: 2024 SEASON OVER. At the entrance to the campground, the store offers coffee and quick breakfast items in the morning. It also has basic grocery items. Snacks, trail mixes, hiking accessories, soft and hard beverages, and souvenirs. There is a microwave to warm your food. This is the only building on Grand Canyon's North Rim that offers free Wi-Fi with just enough connectivity to check email. Open for the season between May 15 and October 15, 2025, Hours: 7 am to 9 pm
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This a series of lesson plans about the WWII home front, focused on Wichita, Kansas, as an American World War II Heritage City. The lessons contain photographs, readings, and primary sources, with optional extension activities. The lessons highlight specific contributions (such as aviation, manufacturing and civilian volunteerism). The lessons also connect to larger themes and understandings of the US home front during wartime.
Fort Smith National Historic Site
Meeting of Nations
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The Council of 1865 at Fort Smith was a meeting of different tribal and U.S. Government representatives.
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Kohler, WI
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Three lessons and culminating fourth lesson support the development of understanding the significance of Wichita, Kansas, an American World War II Heritage City. Highlights include contributions to the wartime industry and workforce, such as the mass production of aircraft, defense manufacturing, and volunteerism and contributions made by many civilians. The lessons highlight specific contributions but connect to larger themes and understandings of the U.S. WWII home front.
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This lesson is part of a series teaching about the World War II home front with Wichita, Kansas, an American World War II Heritage City. The lesson has photographs, readings, optional media, and a culminating mastery project. The culminating project contributes to learners’ understandings of the city as a WWII Heritage City, with the opportunity to combine lesson themes from the 3 other lessons in the Wichita collection. This is to summarize the city’s contribution in WWII.
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This lesson is part of a series teaching about the World War II home front, with Wichita, Kansas designated as an American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains primary source readings and photographs to contribute to learners’ understandings of how civilians volunteered and contributed to home front war efforts. Efforts included volunteering service for service members, cadet enlistment programs, and war bond events and campaigns.
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This lesson is part of a series teaching about the World War II home front, with Wichita, Kansas designated as an American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains three primary reading sources and photos to contribute to learners’ understandings on defense manufacturing with examples from Wichita, Kansas: the Coleman Lamp and Stove Company and Langdon Tent and Awning Company. Women were also employed at both companies as defense workers.
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This lesson is part of a series teaching about the World War II home front, with Wichita, Kansas, an American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains readings and photos to contribute to learners’ understandings about Wichita’s contributions to aviation wartime production. The lesson contains a reading to learn about the milestones of production of the B-29 Superfortress, and two readings to consider the importance of the role of women in the local industries.
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Coronado Quivira Museum
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The Coronado Quivira Museum contains Santa Fe Trail artifacts as well as Spanish Colonial and ancient indigenous artifacts from sites located in Rice County Kansas.
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
Sixty-six Phillips 66 Stations: From Walking Dead to American Restoration
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Phillips 66 was founded by Frank and L.E. Phillips brothers. It was originally an oil exploration company. They drilled the wells. They pumped the crude out of the ground. That’s all they did. Then in the 1920s, they got into refining, and in 1927 they built their first Phillips 66 station in Wichita, Kansas.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Edwin Way Teale
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Born 1899 in Illinois, Edwin Way Teale became an influential naturalist, author, and photographer who won the first Pulitzer Prize for nature writing. Teale wrote that his boyhood summers and holidays spent near his grandparents’ farm at the Indiana Dunes inspired his interest in nature.
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This article highlights a few of the many job opportunities that opened to disabled workers during World War II.
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As the “Air Capitol of the World,” the City of Wichita, Kansas has a strong connection with World War II, with its greatest home front accomplishment being the development and production of military aircraft. In 1951, the city’s Municipal Airport became McConnell Air Force Base. Wichita actively commemorates World War II veterans and events.
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Meat was on the ration list from March 1943 through November 1945. Meat was rationed by the type of meat, the cut, and by weight (but not the quality), with points assessed by the pound. Recipes abounded for how to stretch meat ration points including soups, stews, and casseroles. There was also a campaign promoting organ meats, rebranded as “variety meat." Americans, however, loved their meat and some looked to a thriving black market to get it.
Cultural Resources Office of Interpretation and Education
Uncle Sam Needs to Borrow Your… Dog?
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Before the US entered World War II, the US Army had only a few sled dogs that they used in arctic regions. After the Japanese attacked the US home front, civilians including those from the dog show world established the Dogs for Defense program. Owners volunteered over 40,000 pet dogs for wartime service.
Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
Post World War II Advertising Aimed At African American Consumers
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Robert E. Weems Jr., the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University, on the brand names and products mentioned in The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963.
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National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT), the Midwest Archeological Center, Wichita State University, and the Friends of NCPTT, are hosting a five-day training workshop: Current Archeological Prospection Advances for Non-Destructive Investigations. In its thirtieth year, the workshop will be held May 22–26, 2023 at the Country Club site (14CO3) in Arkansas City, Kansas.