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Series: NPS Mellon Humanities Fellowships to Advance the Education Mission Through Scholarship

Type: Article

For the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations, the National Park Service draws upon the humanities to explore our shared history and its meanings. Humanities scholars study subjects like literature, philosophy, history, politics, religion, archaeology, and art to help us better understand and interpret the world. Investment from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has allowed NPS to host humanities scholars and share a greater diversity of American stories.

Charles Cornwallis

Type: Person

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis and 2nd Earl Cornwallis, served as a British general during the American Revolution and notably surrendered his army to General Washington's Continental army and the allied French forces at Yorktown, Virginia in October 1781. This surrender effectively ended hostilities between British and American forces and led to peace negotiations, ending the war and recognizing American independence. Cornwallis later governed in India.

Nicodemus National Historic Site

Nettie Craig Asberry

Type: Person

Nettie Craig Asberry is considered the first Black woman to earn a doctorate degree. Her family settled in Nicodemus in 1879, and she taught in town from 1886-1889, teaching both at the District No. 1 School and offering private music lessons. Asberry spent most of her life in Tacoma, Washington where she continued to teach music and advocated for the equal rights of all.

Antietam National Battlefield

4th Pennsylvania Reserve Monument (33rd) Volunteer Infantry Monument

Type: Place

The Regt. arrived on the field on the afternoon of September 16, 1862. Formed at this point on the morning of the 17th, advanced about 600 yards South and became engaged with Hood's Confederate Division

Grand Canyon National Park

El Tovar Hotel

Type: Place

Located directly on the rim of Grand Canyon, El Tovar Hotel features a fine dining room, lounge, gift shop, and newsstand. Dining Room: Breakfast: 6:30 am to 10 am, Lunch: 11 am to 2:30 pm, Dinner: 4:30 pm to 9:30 pm. *Advanced reservations are required for lunch and dinner at El Tovar Dining Room. (928) 638-2631, ext. 6432 - El Tovar Lounge 11 am to 10 pm. (food until 9:30 pm).

Francis Rawdon

Type: Person

Francis Lord Rawdon, later Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira, was an Irish-Anglo army officer and politician, who served the British empire faithfully from service as a young man throughout the American Revolution through the French Revolutionary Wars, capping his career with a decade as Governor-General of India.

District of Columbia: Mitchell Jamieson Mural

Type: Place

American artist, Mitchell Jamieson, captures the monumental nature of African-American opera singer Marian Anderson's 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial in his mural "An Incident in Contemporary American Life."

Boston African American National Historic Site

Fannie Barrier Williams

Type: Person

As a member of the National League of Colored Women, Illinois Woman’s Alliance, Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and other women-led organizations, Fannie Barrier Williams laid the groundwork for women’s civic participation in the late 1800s. She used her talents of speaking and writing to pursue activism for the Black women’s rights movement of her time.

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.

Japanese YWCA

Type: Place

The Japanese YWCA, also known as the Issei Women's Building, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. The property is being recognized for its association to the history of Japanese American Issei (first generation) women, the African American Civil Rights movement, and the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights movement.

Expressions as Diverse as the Landscape: The Selling Building, Portland, OR

Type: Article

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.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Type: Person

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859 -1947) began her career as a national women’s rights activist when she addressed the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890 at their national convention in Washington DC. She quickly became a dedicated writer, lecturer, and recruiter for the suffrage movement. She also worked for peace and was a co-founder of the League of Women Voters.

Todd Union

Type: Place

Todd Union on the University of Rochester campus in Rochester, New York, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. Todd Union is significant as the site of origin of the University of Rochester's chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), which was founded in 1970. The creation and activities of the GLF established a sense of community amongst Rochester's LGBTQ residents, and advanced the community's fight for civil rights and gay liberation.

Independence National Historical Park

Cato’s Freedom Seeking Ad by Philip Syng - May 5, 1748

Type: Article

This is a freedom seeker newspaper advertisement for Cato [unidentified last name] that Philip Syng, Philadelphia silversmith placed two times in the newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette.

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

Thurgood Marshall and the Central High Crisis

Type: Person

The school desegregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School put on trial America’s commitment to its founding principles. It was the first significant test of the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” The successful outcome affirmed the basis of that ruling—the 14th Amendment’s promise of “equal protection of the laws.”

Boston National Historical Park

Old North Church

Type: Place

Built in 1723, Christ Church is better known as Old North. Boston’s oldest church building, it remains an active Episcopal Church. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow memorialized Old North’s role at the start of the Revolutionary War in his poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”On the night of April 18, 1775, sexton Robert Newman hung two lanterns in the steeple to warn Charlestown patriots of advancing British soldiers.

Florence Bayard Hilles

Type: Person

In 1913, Florence Bayard Hilles heard fellow Delawarean Mabel Vernon speak about voting rights for women. Hilles immediately signed a card stating “I believe in women suffrage” and put all her energy into gaining voting rights. Hilles became a leader in the Delaware Congressional Union for Women Suffrage (later the National Women’s Party), gave speeches, led marches, advocated with elected officials, and was put in prison for picketing at the White House.