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Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site

John Milton Hubbard, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, CSA
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A brief description of John Milton Hubbard, author of Notes of a Private.

Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail

Mt. Gillard Missionary Baptist Church
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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

The Great American Outdoors Act Revitalizes Barracks Building
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In 2020, Congress passed the most significant conservation legislation enacted since the environmental movement of the 1960s and 70s: The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA). This was great news for Fort Vancouver NHS, which secured $15.2 million of that funding to renovate Building 993, one of Vancouver Barracks’ three large double infantry barracks buildings.

Post World War II Food
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World War II brought several changes to what and how we eat. French, Italian, and Chinese food soon became popular in America beyond immigrant neighborhoods. Other changes were spurred by foods included in military rations and food produced using technologies developed during the war.

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.

Jimmy Carter National Historical Park

Carter Family Vegetable Garden
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The Carter family maintained a vegetable garden to provide fresh food for their meals. Though primarily for the family, they often shared extra crops with neighbors.

Wanna See a Show? Do it Yourself: Punk Music at DC-Area National Parks
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A zine exploring the emergence of punk in the aftermath of the Summer in the Parks Series of the late 1960s, the importance of Neighborhood Planning Councils to the development of punk, the activism that occurred on NPS land during the 1980s and 1990s, and the NPS's contradictory stance towards punk.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Oak Ridge Wayside: Cedar Hill School
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A wayside exhibit in Oak Ridge, Tennessee describing Cedar Hill School, one of several schools built for the Secret City's children during the Manhattan Project.

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

The Legacy of the Port Royal Experiment
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The Port Royal Experiment was not intended to be a re-envisioning of America, but it evolved as a model for how to transition away from slavery during Reconstruction. Historian Willie Lee Rose termed it a “Rehearsal for Reconstruction.”

Key Bridge Boathouse
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Key Bridge Boathouse is managed by Boating in DC and provides visitors the opportunity to rent kayaks, canoes, and stand-up paddleboards.

Rock Creek Park

Montrose Park Playground
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Montrose Park playground is located in Montrose Park off of R Street NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Timothy W. Hoxie
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Boston businessman Timothy W. Hoxie served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Ebenezer Hunt
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Doctor and abolitionist Ebenezer Hunt likely served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Presidio of San Francisco

Dr. Margaret "Mom" Chung
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Dr. Margaret “Mom” Chung was the first Chinese American woman to become a physician. She founded one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1920s. During World War II, she and her widespread network of “adopted sons,” most of them American soldiers, sailors, and airmen who called her “Mom,” became famous. Although she faced prejudice because of her race, gender, and sexuality, Dr. Chung forged a distinctive path throughout her life.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Maria W. Stewart
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Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. Stewart was one of the first women of any race to speak in public in the United States. She was also the first Black American woman to write and publish a political manifesto. Her calls for Black people to resist slavery, oppression, and exploitation were radical and influential.

The Furies Collective
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The Furies Collective house in Washington, DC is directly connected with the early expression of the character, role, and ideology of the lesbian community as a social and political community in the 1970s. The house was the operational center of the“Furies,” a lesbian feminist separatist collective, which between 1971 and 1973 created and led the debate over lesbians’ place in society.

Collectives, Enclaves, and Gayborhoods: The Castro, CA
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San Francisco's Castro neighborhood is known as the oldest LGB enclave in the country. It began to take shape at the end of World War II when United States detention policies had displaced thousands of Japanese Americans, families were flocking to live in suburban developments, and San Francisco's urban neighborhoods were particularly affordable.

LGB Memorials: UpStairs Lounge Arson Attack, New Orleans, LA
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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.

National Mall and Memorial Parks

Dupont Circle
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Located at the intersection of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire Avenues in Northwest Washington, DC, Dupont Circle has served as the anchor of a neighborhood of diplomats, government officials, war commemorations, and the LGB community for over 200 years.

Glide Memorial Church
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The Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. The church is historically significant as a space for progressive activism and ministry for the neighborhood’s LGBT, Black, and Asian American communities in the 1960s and 1970s.