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Scottish Immigration Wayside
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Moores Creek National Battlefield

Road to Independence
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Wayside Exhibit focused on the leadup to the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge.

Anti-Asian laws and policies
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Anti-Asian laws and policies in the late 1800s and early 1900s

Blue Ridge Parkway

Moses Cone
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The son of an immigrant, Moses Cone worked his way up from a traveling peddler to one of the nation's leading industrialists.

Lowell National Historical Park

Patrick J Mogan Cultural Center
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Greenwich Village Historic District
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Greenwich Village Historic District’s reputation for dynamism can be attributed to its history of emerging artists and writers as well as the political unrest and activism of its inhabitants. With the rise of the counterculture movement during the 1960s, Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park became a hub for writers and musicians. In 1969, LGB residents of Greenwich Village pushed back against police harassment at the Stonewall Inn.

Antietam National Battlefield

20th New York Volunteer Infantry Monument
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The 20th New York Infantry was organized in New York City. The regiment suffered 145 casualties, some of whom are buried in the National Cemetery. Their veterans’ association erected this monument in 1911.

World War I Memorial
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Antietam National Battlefield

May Lundberg Antietam National Cemetery
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May Lundberg is the only female veteran buried in Antietam National Cemetery. During World War I, she served as an officer in the Army Nurse Corps working at the American Hospital of Paris and for Red Cross Hospital in Paris.

Boston National Historical Park

Valentino Dominelli
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Valentino Dominelli, a watertender aboard USS Cassin Young, was the son of immigrants from Italy. A watertender was a crewman aboard a steam-powered ship and was responsible for tending to the fires and boilers in the ship's engine room. "Dom" died in action when a kamikaze plane struck USS Cassin Young on July 30, 1945.

Boston National Historical Park

John Kappa
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At age 20, John Kappa enlisted into the U.S. Navy. He worked as a machinist's mate, maintaining and testing different components of the ship. During World War II he served on the USS Colorado before joining the USS Cassin Young. Kappa was killed in action from a kamikaze attack on the Cassin Young.

Boston National Historical Park

John James Takacs
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John was one of six children (three boys and three girls) of Stephen and Elizabeth Takacs, who immigrated from Hungary. John grew up in a Bridgeport, Connecticut. In mid-December he arrived in California and on December 31, 1943, he joined the crew of USS Cassin Young (DD-973). Cassin Young was hit by a second kamikaze on July 30, 1945. Forty-five sailors were wounded and 22 were killed. WT2c(T) John Takacs was one of them.

Caesar Ferrit
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Caesar Ferrit, a Caribbean immigrant who fought at Lexington, Massachusetts alongside Patriot militia on April 19, 1775. Caesar settled in Natick, Ma and was said to have "the blood of four nations," African, Indigenous, French, and Dutch.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Jose Sarria
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Military history, LGB culture, immigrant stories, and much more make up GGNRA's roots. For José Sarria, a LGB activist in San Francisco, all the above apply. Born in the Bay Area to a single mother from Colombia, Sarria became the first openly gay, public figure. He ran for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1961.

National Mall and Memorial Parks

Commodore John Barry Memorial
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John Barry (1745-1803), an Irish immigrant to the 13 colonies, served in the Continental Navy, attacking British shipping throughout the American Revolution. He was the first commissioned American naval officer, and the first flag officer.

Nina Otero-Warren
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In 1921, Otero-Warren ran for federal office, campaigning to be the Republican Party nominee for New Mexico to the US House of Representatives. She won the nomination, but lost the election by less than nine percent. She remained politically and socially active, and served as the Chairman of New Mexico’s Board of Health; an executive board member of the American Red Cross; and director of an adult literacy program in New Mexico for the Works Projects Administration.

Willa Cather
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Born December 7, 1873, in Virginia, Willela Sibert Cather grew up on the dusty plains of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Her life took her across the country, and she would become one of the premiere American authors of the 1900s.

Jane Addams
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When Jane Addams penned Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes, she presented her life story as inextricably tied to her work in running a settlement house. Addams was born into an affluent family in Illinois, but comfort and leisure did not suit her. After spending much of her early life searching for outlets for progressive work, Addams became a reformer.

Reverend Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
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By the mid-1880s, Shaw was establishing herself as an advocate for temperance, a cause she took in part because of her time doing medical work in Boston. She first worked as a paid lecturer with the Massachusetts Women Suffrage Association, a position she secured through her connections with the prominent suffragist Lucy Stone. Moving up the ranks, Shaw was subsequently hired to work with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, or WCTU, a national organization.

Interpretation and Education

Telling All Americans' Stories: Introduction to Women's History
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From the lives of young, immigrant women who worked the textile mills at Lowell National Historic Park to those of the female shipyard workers who were essential to the home front during World War II at Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historic Park, women’s history can be found at every park. If you want to understand our nation’s history, explore the remarkable legacies of American women.