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Pullman National Historical Park

Rosina Corrothers Tucker
  • Type: Person

A prominent advocate for labor and civil rights, Rosina Corrothers Tucker played an integral role in the creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and its International Ladies Auxiliary. She served as a leader in the Auxiliary for several decades and played a role in planning the March on Washington movement in the 1940s.

Lava Beds National Monument

Captain Jacks Stronghold, Tulelake, Ca
  • Type: Place

Valles Caldera National Preserve

Otero Cabin
  • Type: Place

The Otero (Cupit) Cabin is the oldest standing log structure in the park, built back in 1915. The Oteros, who owned the land from 1899 to 1918, grazed sheep on the mountains and cattle and horses in the valleys. Frederico Otero lived there until 1917, but later occupants included staff working seasonally on the ranch. Names carved over the door frame include Danny, Shawn, and Nathan Cupit and are dated 1967 and 1977.

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

Glacier National Park

Trail of the Cedars
  • Type: Place

Trail of the Cedars is a peaceful boardwalk nature trail along Avalanche Creek. Follow the boardwalk through old growth cedars, listen to the American dippers, see the powerful force of water carving the Avalanche Gorge.

Register Cliff Historic Site
  • Type: Place

Following a day's journey from Fort Laramie, emigrants spent the night at Register Cliff , which rises one hundred feet above the North Platte River valley. The soft, chalky limestone rock made it easy for emigrants to inscribe their names into the cliff before continuing on their journey. The earliest signatures date to the late 1820s when trappers and fur traders passed through the area.

Capitol Reef National Park

Pioneer Register
  • Type: Place

Take a short hike in Capitol Gorge to see the historic Pioneer Register where early explorers and pioneers carved their names into the cliff wall. It is illegal to deface, vandalize, or add your own name to the Register.

Glen Echo Park

Dentzel Carousel
  • Type: Place

nstalled at Glen Echo Park in 1921, the carousel was made by the Dentzel Carousel Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1960, it was the site of a sit-in protest against segregation. The carousel features a menagerie of animals who gallop to the music of a Wurlitzer band organ.

Pullman National Historical Park

National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
  • Type: Place

The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum (NAPPRM) was founded in 1995 by Dr. Lynn Hughes. The museum is named Asa Philip Randolph and Pullman Porters, the men who made up the membership of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) union.

Gender and Sexuality in Native America: Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, CA
  • Type: Article

West-central California has been home to Native populations for many thousands of years. Two of these, the Miwok and the Ohlone were the primary inhabitants of San Francisco Bay's northern and southern peninsulas. Research indicates that both of these tribes recognized gender identities beyond they typical Western conception of male/female.

Collectives, Enclaves, and Gayborhoods: The Castro, CA
  • Type: Article

San Francisco's Castro neighborhood is known as the oldest LGB enclave in the country. It began to take shape at the end of World War II when United States detention policies had displaced thousands of Japanese Americans, families were flocking to live in suburban developments, and San Francisco's urban neighborhoods were particularly affordable.

LGB Memorials: National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco, CA
  • Type: Article

The National AIDS Memorial Grove began as a community effort to recognize the devastating loss of life from the AIDS epidemic, and an effort to create space for remembrance and grieving.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

To the Moon and Back: A Revolution in Transportation
  • Type: Article

Transportation. It’s probably something most of us do not think much about. From cars, bikes, planes, and trains, most of us use some form of transportation to travel to work, school, appointments, and whatever else we do in life. Revolution. A term that can refer to a dramatic social or political change, or simply refer to a cyclical journey. In this article you will learn more about the Transportation Revolution in the Blackstone River Valley and its lasting legacies.

Park History Program

The Green Book: An Historic Context
  • Type: Article

Traveling by car in the US with a minimum degree of safety and comfort is something we take for granted today. But not very long ago, this was not expected, and certainly not taken for granted, by a large percentage of African Americans. With the publication of the first Negro Motorist Green Book in 1936, however, African Americans were able to find safe places to visit and stay and to actively resist the discrimination they faced while traveling across America.

The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial
  • Type: Place

After the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 giving the War Department authority to create zones from which Japanese Americans were excluded. The first exclusion area designated was Bainbridge Island. On March 30, 1942 the Japanese Americans living on Bainbridge Island were gathered at Eagledale Ferry Dock and sent to an incarceration camp in Manzanar, CA before being tranferred to Minidoka in Idaho.

Hawaii Shingon Mission
  • Type: Place

Hawaii Shingon Mission (also known as Shingon Shu Hawaii) is a historic Buddhist temple in Honolulu, Hawaii. It features distinctive Japanese architectural elements, including a steep roof with elaborate decorative carvings. During World War II, prejudice against Hawaiians of Japanese descent—especially Buddhists—turned many temples and shrines into targets.

Point Reyes National Seashore

Laguna Trailhead
  • Type: Place

The most popular hikes from the Laguna Trailhead will take you down to the coast, but you can also connect to multiple trails that will climb through the forest towards Inverness Ridge. Many of the routes that depart from this trailhead are within the Phillip Burton Wilderness. The trailhead is located near the east end of Laguna Road, approximately 15 minutes by car from the Bear Valley Visitor Center.

Point Reyes National Seashore

Coast Trailhead
  • Type: Place

The Coast trailhead is a popular place to start an easy hike, bike, or horseback ride to the beach. It meanders through creek-side habitat before going by wetlands as you approach the ocean. The trailhead is located along Laguna Road, approximately 15 minutes by car from the Bear Valley Visitor Center.

Summer 2024 a Good Season for Bay Area Coho
  • Type: Article

Each summer, the San Francisco Bay Area Network fisheries crew spends a majority of its time in three Marin County, CA streams, Olema Creek, Pine Gulch Creek, and Redwood Creek, monitoring juvenile coho and steelhead populations. After completing this season's surveys, we found that 2024 was a decent year for juvenile coho!

Arkansas Post National Memorial

Deer Monitoring at Arkansas Post National Memorial
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Deer are one of the more charismatic creatures you can find at Arkansas Post National Memorial. NPS scientists monitor deer at the memorial using nighttime spotlight surveys. We track deer populations to understand how they may be changing over time. Too many deer can causes increases in disease, damage to park landscapes, and collisions with cars.