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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Charles Robinson
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Charles Robinson was the third Keeper stationed at the Sleeping Bear Point Life-Saving Station. He had ancestral ties to the Odawa people, as his grandparents were of Odawa heritage.
Moores Creek National Battlefield
A Stunning Defeat Wayside Exhibit
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Mrs. Recy Taylor was just 24 years old when she was brutally raped by six white men in Alabama. Upholding the Black woman's tradition of testimony and protest, Taylor actively participated in the pursuit to bring her attackers to justice. Though the men were acquitted in two separate trials, Taylor's courage speaks to the resolve of Black women to channel their pain and anger into political anger. We honor Taylor as an ancestor for teaching us a lesson on courage.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Agat Unit - Apaca Point and Ga'an Point
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Hågat (Agat) Beach was the southern landing beaches used during the Battle of Guam. The rocky outcrops along the beach had been well fortified with caves and bunkers built directly into the limestone headland. With gunports for eyes and rocky ridges for armor, Japanese soldiers turned the terrain itself into a deadly defense. Today, the remains of those fortifications, as well as two examples of Imperial Japanese guns, stand against a backdrop of clear blue ocean.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Fonte Plateau
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Fonte Plateau was a strategic location during the Battle of Guam. Home to a fortified Japanese naval communications base, the battle for control over Fonte Plateau was costly and pivotal. After days of fighting, US troops gained control of the position—forcing the Japanese Army's retreat.
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War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Asan Beach Unit
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In 1944, this seaside park, known locally as Assan Beach Park, was the site of fierce fighting. Assan Beach was the northern most of the two landing beaches used by American troops during the first days of the Battle of Guam. Today, the Asan Beach Unit is home to remains of the Imperial Japanese defenses and memorials to those who died during the battle.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Assan/Asan Beach
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During the Japanese occupation of Guam, CHamoru were forced to build defenses on the beach, including the pillboxes and bunkers that can still be seen today, in preparation for the American invasion. That invasion came on July 21, 1944, W Day for Guam. While a simultaneous attack took place five miles south at Hågat, the Third Marine Division landed on the 2,500-yard Assan Beach, marking the start of the Battle of Guam.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Labor Reforms of the Port Royal Experiment
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Paying wages to the formerly enslaved people served two purposes for the government officials developing the Port Royal Experiment. It helped to provide a solution of where people should live. Wages also began to put cash into the hands of people who had toiled this land for generations. Many sought to use that cash to secure that land for themselves.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
The Port Royal Experiment
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A few weeks after the Battle of Port Royal, US soldiers and sailors came ashore around Beaufort and found thousands of now formerly enslaved people in control of the region. The military had no real plan yet for what to do with these people or even their legal status.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Series: The Port Royal Experiment
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In the fall of 1861 after the Battle of Port Royal, the US military came ashore around Beaufort and found thousands of now formerly enslaved people in control of the region. The military had no real plan yet for what to do with these people or even their legal status. Newly freed Black South Carolinians were active participants. They demanded access to programs to support labor reforms, land redistribution, quality education, and military service.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Piti Guns Unit
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During the last months of the Imperial Japanese occupation of Guam, Japanese defenders heavily fortified the island in preparation for the coming battle. Machine guns, artillery and mortar emplacements, and coastal defense guns were installed on the high ground near the coast. Today, most of those fortifications are either gone, but in the hills overlooking the village of Piti, three Vickers-type Model 3 140mm coastal defense guns still rest silently in a mahogany forest.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Piti
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Above the village of Piti, sit three large Japanese Vickers-type Model 3 140mm coastal defense guns, the remains of hastily constructed fortifications build on the eve of the American invasion of Guam. As the Americans conquered more and more territory in the Pacific, the Japanese forced the CHamoru to build fortifications and install artillery and costal defense guns on Guam under brutal conditions.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Land Ownership: An Effect of the Port Royal Experiment
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Learn how the Confiscation Act and Revenue Acts of 1861 set the stage for land reform in the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Land reform that would allow formerly enslaved people to purchase land that generations would cherish.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Captain James Ricketts' Artillery Position
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Union Captain James Ricketts' Battery I, 1st US Artillery held this position on the afternoon of 21 July 1861. Fighting raged along this line throughout the afternoon, with the guns changing hands three times. During the fighting, James Ricketts was severely wounded.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Captain Charles Griffin's Howitzers
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Antietam National Battlefield
4th Pennsylvania Reserve Monument (33rd) Volunteer Infantry Monument
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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
Antietam National Battlefield
45th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument
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Monument to the 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monument who fought for the Union in the Battle of Antietam.
Glen Echo Park
Dentzel Carousel
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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.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
A Hearty Grip: Fort Scott Soldiers in the Mexican- American War
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Imagine the fear you might have marching into battle with guns blazing all around you. Imagine the courage it took to charge an enemy when their cannons thundered at you from a fortified hilltop. Imagine fighting in a foreign country far from home against a determined foe and waging a war that half of your country opposes. Imagine putting your life in danger on a daily basis. Such was the experience of Fort Scott soldiers during the Mexican-American War.