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Boston African American National Historic Site
Edmund Jackson
- Type: Person
Boston merchant and abolitionist Edmund Jackson served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Augusta National Golf Club
- Type: Place
Shenandoah National Park
Series: Ranger Activity Reports
- Type: Article
Visitor and resource protection is responsible for law enforcement, emergency medical services, fire management, and search and rescue. If you have an incident to report in Shenandoah National Park, contact dispatch at (540) 999-3422.
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
Anti-Asian laws and policies in the late 1800s and early 1900s
Boston African American National Historic Site
Eliphalet W. Jackson
- Type: Person
Clergyman and merchant Eliphalet W. Jackson participated in the abolition and temperance movements and served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.
Boston African American National Historic Site
Thomas Hunter
- Type: Person
Boston paper hanger Thomas Hunter served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.
- Type: Place
The curved, five-part layout of the Thomas Stone House, along with its casual symmetry and mixed architectural styles truly make it a visual showcase.
Blue Ridge Parkway
Stanley Abbott
- Type: Person
Stanley Abbott was the lead designer of the Blue Ridge Parkway. His vision of an environmentally sensitive design plan that preserved the cultural history of the route, guided the creation of a parkway that remains one of the most significant examples of landscape architecture in the country.
- Type: Person
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.
Johnstown Flood National Memorial
Gertrude Quinn Slattery
- Type: Person
Gertrude Quinn was a young survivor of the Johnstown Flood.
National Mall and Memorial Parks
1979 Rally for the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
- Type: Place
At the end of the National March for Lesbian and Gay Rights, participants gathered near the base of the Washington Monument to listen to speakers proudly claim their queerness and paint a vision of a more inclusive future. One of these speakers was Charles Law, a Black gay activist based in Houston. He argued that the marchers must not fight for assimilate but integration so that all gay and lesbian people may one day enjoy the full benefits of their civil rights.
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On the left side of the memorial core, the bronze heroic-sized statue of Eisenhower as 34th President of the United States places him at the center of the White House Oval Office flanked by sculptures of civilian and military advisors, symbolizing the balance Eisenhower struck between conflicting demands of national security and peaceful progress. The bas-relief global background depicts a map of the world symbolizing Eisenhower's role as a world statesman and preeminent inte
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Hampton National Historic Site
Sophia Gough Ridgely Howard
- Type: Person
Sophia Gough Ridgely Howard went against the norms of her time and took a silent stand against the institution of slavery the best way she knew how. According to several historical accounts, she helped influence her father, Charles Carnan Ridgely, to manumit (free) many of those he enslaved. She championed what she thought was right, a stand that led to a rift in the family, though she never lived to see the impact of her actions. Pushing for social change.
- Type: Place
The White House and President's Park
1965 First Gay Rights Pickets at the White House
- Type: Place
The first-ever picket for gay rights in Washington, DC took place outside the White House in April 1965. One of the first protests of its kind in United States history, this moment stands alongside better-known protests and uprisings like Stonewall in New York as one of the origins of the American LGB rights movement. What would you picket for? Text what would be on your protest sign to someone you’d want to join your picket line.
The White House and President's Park
White House Lit Up With Rainbow Colors in 2015
- Type: Place
Rainbow colors lit up the White House on the evening of June 26, 2015, in celebration of the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision. The decision, which was announced that same day, legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. On December 13, 2022, the White House was lit up in rainbow colors again, this time the south portico to celebrate the Respect for Marriage Act being signed into law by President Biden.
- Type: Person
Jude Hall enlisted in Exeter, New Hampshire into Capt. Jacob Hinds' company, in Col. James Reed’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill.