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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Stories in the Sky
- Type: Place
Stories in the Sky Interpretive Panel
Amache National Historic Site
Amache Museum
- Type: Place
The Amache Musuem is located in Granada, CO and operated by the Amache Preservation Society.
- 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.
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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.
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A prominent clothing dealer and community activist, John Coburn served as treasurer of the New England Freedom Association and co-founded the Massasoit Guards, a Black military company in 1850s Boston.
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The National Park Service Youth and Young Adult Programs Division co-hosted the virtual event “Then/Now/Tomorrow: Empowering Our Future Conservation and Climate Stewards” on April 24, 2024, for National Park Week, alongside The Corps Network, the National Park Foundation, and AmeriCorps. A panel of six current and former corps members shared their experiences working and serving on public lands.
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El Programa de Inventario y Monitoreo está dedicado a aportar la información necesaria para que los directores de los parques tomen decisiones acertadas con base científica. Estas decisiones ayudarán a apoyar la misión del National Park Service, que es conservar los recursos de los espacios más especiales y valorados de América para las generaciones futuras.
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El monitoreo de signos vitales del Programa del Inventario y Monitoreo (I&M) del NPS aporta datos e información científicamente fiables del estado y la tendencia de determinados recursos naturales a los directores de parques, planificadores, y demás sectores interesados. Esta información sirve como base para tomar decisiones y trabajar con otras agencias y con el público, para la protección a largo plazo de los ecosistemas de los parques.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Lines
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This poem is part of a series by Ellen Murray, a co-founder of the Penn School on St. Helena Island, SC. "Lines" was first published in The New South on November 1, 1862.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Charles and Mathilda Nelson House
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The Nelson-Reed property in Porter County, Indiana, is a historical site rooted in the Swedish immigrant farming community and Indiana Dunes preservation. Established by Swedish immigrants Charles and Mathilda Nelson, the farm became a hub of local history, with their son Bill co-founding the Duneland Historical Society. In 1952, Chicago architect Earl Reed Jr. purchased the property, championing conservation efforts, including the creation of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Independence National Historical Park
Letter from Charles Jones & Co. to Andrew Robeson and William Frampton – September 28, 1685
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This was a 1685 letter written from Charles Jones Jr. and his associates in Bristol, England to Andrew Robeson and William Frampton in Philadelphia. In this letter Robeson and Frampton were given the power of attorney to collect debts for Charles Jones Jr. & Company and the captain of the Isabella, Thomas Taylor.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
The Slave in Tennessee
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This poem is part of a series written by Ellen Murray, co-founder of the Penn School on St. Helena Island, SC. "The Slave in Tennessee" was originally published in the Free South on April 11, 1863.
Canyonlands National Park
Campground Amphitheatre: Discover the Night
- Type: Place
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Grand Junction, CO
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The Manhattan Engineer District needed uranium for the Manhattan Project to succeed. They relied heavily on Canada and Africa for raw uranium but recognized the risk in getting uranium from these places and sought a domestic source. Land in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah had the highest known uranium-ore concentrations in the country. The federal government chose Grand Junction, CO to become a uranium processing site, making it very important to the Manhattan Project.
Camp Nelson National Monument
Paul Vandervoort
- Type: Person
From Camp Nelson to Cuba: The Story of Paul Vandervoort Paul Vandervoort B. July 12, 1846, Clinton County, Ohio D. July 29, 1902, Puerto Principe, Cuba Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Nebraska Regiment 68th Illinois Infantry, Co. M 16th Illinois Cavalry.
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The National Park Service will enhance climate change resilience and food security in rural Alaskan communities. The project prioritizes goals of building Tribal-NPS co-stewardship relationships that support Tribes’ ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions and associated food security challenges. Activities include improving harvest reporting strategies and conducting community harvest assessments. This project has additional goals to develop adaptive approaches.
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
Cerro Summit
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The Cerro Summit Recreation Area is a 110-acre property owned and managed by the City of Montrose, CO. It is managed as open space and is open year-round. The Old Spanish National Historic Trail passes directly through the trail system, on the south side of Highway 50.
Puʻukoholā Heiau National Historic Site
Young’s Homestead and Hale of Kaʻōanaʻeha
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Pu'ukoholā Heiau NHS contains the remains of one of the first western-style houses on the Hawaiian islands: the John Young Homestead. The park also contains the traditional style home of Kaʻōanaʻeha, Young’s wife. These radically different homes co-existed in a multiethnic and multicultural family. They were built during a time of cross-cultural exchange in Hawai'i and represent the power and autonomy between the chiefly class of Native Hawaiians and missionary women.
Pony Express National Historic Trail
Pony Express National Historic Trail
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It is hard to believe that young men once rode horses to carry mail from Missouri to California in the unprecedented time of only 10 days. This relay system along the Pony Express National Historic Trail in eight states was the most direct and practical means of east-west communications before the telegraph. The trail traverses 8 states: CA, UT, CO, NV, WY, NE, KS, & MO. It is administered by the National Trails Office Regions 6|7|8 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.