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Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Type: Person

Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson was an evangelist, radio broadcaster, and public speaker. She innovated new ways to deliver religious messages through mass media.

Amache National Historic Site

Amache Museum
  • Type: Place

The Amache Musuem is located in Granada, CO and operated by the Amache Preservation Society.

Banastre Tarleton
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Banastre Tarleton, a British army officer, famously commanded the British Legion, a provincial regiment composed of loyalist infantry and dragoons, in the southern theater under Lord Cornwallis during the Revolution. Feared for his ruthlessness by the patriots, his early successes in the field earned him notoriety. Defeated at the Battle of Cowpens by Brig. Gen. Daniel Morgan, Tarleton's favor with Cornwallis declined. Tarleton was present at the surrender at Yorktown.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Alva B. Johnson
  • Type: Person

Alva B. Johnson WWII Navy Veteran

Boston National Historical Park

Site of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG) Office
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While originally a civic organization dedicated to social reform, the 1901 Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government eventually shifted its primary goals to focus on women’s full enfranchisement and civic education. As a younger organization, it targeted a broader population for support.

(H)our History Lesson: Civilian Contributions and Volunteerism in Tempe, Arizona WWII Heritage City
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This lesson is part of a series about the World War II home front in Tempe, Arizona American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains readings and photos to contribute to learners’ understandings about the role of civilian contributions on the home front in Tempe: in agriculture, volunteerism, and financial support of the war efforts.

(H)our History Lesson: Tempe, Arizona: Comparing and Connecting WWII Home Front Cities
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Learn more about Tempe, Arizona, a designated World War II Heritage City by comparing it to other Heritage Cities and thinking about larger themes on the World War II Home Front.

A Series of Lessons on Tempe, Arizona, WWII Heritage City
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These four lessons support understanding the significance of Tempe, Arizona-an American World War II Heritage City. Highlights of the first two listed lessons include military training, education, civilian contributions, and volunteerism. The third lesson shares on the Papago Park German prisoner-of-war camp in Tempe, which became well-known for a large prisoner escape. All lessons highlight specific contributions and connect to larger home front themes with primary sources.

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.

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

Podcast 099: Finding and Preserving LGBTQ Southern History with the Invisible Histories Project
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Catherine Cooper speaks with Josh Burford and Maigen Sullivan, the co-founders of the Invisible Histories Project their work finding and preserving queer history in the South.

Charles Street Meeting House
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Built in 1807, the Charles Street Meeting House served generations of worshippers both as a Baptist church and later as an African Methodist Episcopal church. Throughout its history, the Charles Street Meeting House acted as a space for social activism.

Angelina Weld Grimke Early Childhood Home
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Born into a biracial family in 1880, the poet and playwright Angelina Weld Grimke lived her earliest years at 61 Temple Street, in a neighborhood long known as a hotbed of Black activism.

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

Elizabeth Eckford Bus Bench
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The Elizabeth Eckford Bus Bench, located on the northeast corner of S. Park Street and 16th Street, is a replica from the 1957 desegregation crisis and a place for contemplative reflection.

(H)our History Lesson: Military Training and Impacts on Higher Education on the Home Front in Tempe, Arizona, World War II Heritage City
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Denali National Park & Preserve

Original McKinley Park Headquarters
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The park’s first ranger, Harry Karstens, arrived in 1921. After a summer of meeting people, and a long patrol through the park, Karstens began clearing land for his headquarters on the northwest bank of Riley Creek. The location offered an ideal place to monitor people using the trail leading west to the park, but proved to be incredibly cold in winter—which led to its move in 1925, to a hillside offering much milder winter temps!

Teaching Suffrage: The Prison Special and the Courage to Speak Out
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When have you needed courage? In this learning activity for fifth grade, students explore questions about when and how to take a stand in their everyday lives. Using photographs of Lucy Burns, co-founder of the National Woman's Party and the woman who spent more time in prison than any other American suffragist, students engage with questions about the courage needed to speak out.

Boston National Historical Park

Aaron Oliver
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Aaron Oliver enlisted in New Ipswich, New Hampshire in the company of Capt. Ezra Town, in Col. James Reed’s New Hampshire regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill at the east end of the rail fence.

Boston National Historical Park

Blaney Grusha (Brinney Gerusha)
  • Type: Person

Blaney Grusha enlisted in Framingham, Massachusetts into the company of Capt. Thomas Drury, in Col. John Nixon’s 5th Massachusetts Regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill at the diagonal.

Cato Hart
  • Type: Person

Cato Hart enlisted in Framingham, Massachusetts into the company of Capt. Thomas Drury, in Col. John Nixon’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill at the diagonal.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
  • Type: Person

Signer of the US Constitution, veteran of the American Revolution, and Federalist presidential candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney provided the young nation long and dedicated public service. A southern planter, he also worked to protect the interests of slaveholders in the young republic.