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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Pollinator Garden
- Type: Place
The pollinator garden at Resaca de la Palma Battlefield helps provide plants for use by local wildlife in a landscape where their habitat is highly fragmented.
- Type: Article
Margaret is one of Hampton’s longest serving volunteers and has seen nearly 40 years of change in the park, its visitation, and how the site’s collection of historic structures and over 45,000-object collection are used to interpret the stories of those who lived and labored at the once 25,000-acre plantation.
César E. Chávez National Monument
Marching for Justice in the Fields
- Type: Article
The farm workers who marched from Delano to Sacramento represented the large, seasonal labor force, composed overwhelmingly of people of color, whose labor made California’s thriving agricultural industry possible. Although their labor produced fortunes from the soil, they were subjected to poor wages and working conditions. This article is an introduction to the issues that motivated the Delano Grape Strike and the 1966 march.
César E. Chávez National Monument
Thirty Years of Farmworker Struggle
- Type: Article
Labor organizing has a long history in agriculture. Between 1930 and 1960, diverse groups of farmworkers in California struggled to form unions and to take collective action for better wages and working conditions. This article highlights the political and legal structures that made organizing in the fields especially difficult.
- Type: Article
Dr. Eleanor Mahoney is the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of Labor and Productivity, 2018-2022.
Pecos National Historical Park
Pecos Mission Church
- Type: Place
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Assan/Asan Beach
- Type: Place
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
- Type: Article
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
Series: The Port Royal Experiment
- Type: Article
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.
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park
William Moultrie
- Type: Person
William Moultrie's 2nd South Carolina Regiment successfully defended Charleston Harbor from the Royal Navy in the Battle of Sullivan's Island on June 28, 1776. This Patriot victory marked the beginning of a meteoric rise for Moultrie as he achieved the rank of general and later served South Carolina as governor.
Boston National Historical Park
Valentino Dominelli
- Type: Person
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.
- Type: Article
On June 24, 1973, thirty-two people were killed when a meeting of Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) members and friends was attacked by arson in this New Orleans lounge. In the aftermath of the horrific event, survivors and church members suffered rejection and homophobic ridicule from police, community members, and neighboring churches.
- Type: Person
Frances Perkins was appointed Secretary of the Department of Labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She became the first woman to hold a cabinet position.
- Type: Article
Albert Cashier was born in 1843. He was assigned female at birth and given the name “Jennie Hodgers,” but at a young age began to dress as a boy and assumed a male identity. According to stories, Cashier’s step-father, short on money, dressed him as a boy to get a job. After Cashier’s mother died, he moved to Illinois and worked as a laborer, farmhand, and shepherd.
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Boggsville Historic Site
- Type: Place
Boggsville was once a stage stop on the Santa Fe Trail. Key businesses there were trading stores, owned by Thomas O. Boggs (built in 1862) and John W. Prowers (built in 1867). Boggsville became the seat of Bent County in 1870, but the coming of the railroad to nearby Las Animas brought about the town's downfall by 1880.
- Type: Place
Frances Perkins was by far one of the most important women of her generation. In 1932, her long and distinguished career as a social worker and New York State Industrial Commissioner took an important turn for American women, and for the country as a whole, when she was appointed U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first woman ever to be included in a president's cabinet.
- Type: Article
In 1918, the United States Army learned that the Presidio of San Francisco was home to men who desired other men. The Men of Baker Street were incarcerated on Alcatraz Island for five months awaiting their courts-martial. These courts-martial found all six soldiers guilty and dishonorably discharged. They forfeited all pay, and five were sentenced to be “confined at hard labor” for sentences ranging from 2-10 years.
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
The Knights of Labor: Strikes of 1885 and 1886
- Type: Article
In the decades after the Civil War during Reconstruction, the United States began to rapidly industrialize. Beginning in the late 1860s, laborers – many of them Civil War veterans - began to organize labor unions. One of the most prominent unions that emerged during this time was the Knights of Labor, founded in 1869 in Philadelphia. In 1885, members of the Knights of Labor went out on strike against railroad financier Jay Gould and won.
Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana
- Type: Person
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana was a preservationist, pacifist, scholar, and labor activist in the first half of the 20th century. He simultaneously navigated the elite world of academia as a gay man, while preserving the legacy of his grandfather, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This is the story of the man behind the stacks.