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Boston National Historical Park

REVOLUTION 250. Commemorations Bring People Together
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Faneuil Hall 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts is not the Faneuil Hall of 1767, Nor is Boston for that fact. Today, Faneuil Hall, and the adjacent Quincy Hall Marketplace, is an international destination for shoppers to the historic marketplace in the oldest part of Boston. Faneuil Hall, a gift to the residents of Boston from Peter Faneuil, allowed for a more formal marketplace and meeting hall which became the meeting place in Boston by the 1770’s. As tension grew with the m

Coastal Climate Messaging Essentials: It’s All in the Telling
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Extreme weather events like nor’easters may be unavoidable and challenging. But learning effective ways to share information about their impacts can have far-reaching benefits.

Acadia National Park

Monitoring the Sand Beach Shipwreck
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In addition to causing significant damage across the park, back-to-back storms in January 2024 uncovered the Tay, a shipwrecked Canadian lumber schooner. These wooden sailing vessels carried lumber and coal between New Brunswick, Portland, Boston, and other ports.

Locating Graves at Vicksburg National Cemetery
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While preparing a grave site for a rare burial of a World War II veteran at the Vicksburg National Cemetery, workers were dismayed to find that the plot was already occupied by a casket. There was neither a headstone nor a record of interment to suggest that the plot was occupied. National Park Service (NPS) staff at Vicksburg promptly began efforts to identify additional unmarked and unrecorded burials, and sift through decades of archives to identify the unknown soldiers.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Capturing Biodiversity on Camera at Rancho Corral de Tierra
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It’s tough for a park to conserve wildlife habitat and support sensitive species when no one is quite sure what creatures live there. Nor is it easy to learn what lives where when so many species' superpowers include avoiding human observation. Early on, such challenges weighed on biologists working at Rancho Corral de Tierra, which became part of Golden Gate in 2011. But now, answers are on the horizon. In August 2023, we launched the San Mateo Wildlife Inventory project.

Boston National Historical Park

"The Woman's Journal"
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First published in 1870, The Woman’s Journal served as the voice of the US women’s suffrage movement for almost 50 years. It covered suffrage work as well as highlighted other news and achievements by women. This "Suffrage Bible" spread its message across the United States and the world, reaching a readership no other suffrage nor women’s rights publication could match at the time.

Death Valley National Park

Sarah Craighead
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Sarah Craighead is the daughter of Jean Craighead of Cave City and grew up in Kentucky with Mammoth Caves National Park essentially in her backyard. Her great-great-grandparents owned a farm directly adjacent to what is now MACA and she used to visit the park frequently with her family. Visiting MACA was a relatively nor-mal part of her life growing up, taking trips for school, scouting, and church trips, even having Sunday dinners in the park.

Acadia National Park

Sand Beach in Winter
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Sand Beach in Acadia National park is a "migrating beach". Learn how natural forces impact the look of sand beach year in and year out.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Mule Train Terminus at Independence Courthouse Square
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The first rail line west of the Mississippi was said to have been the 1849 railroad switch-back that ran from the Missouri River to this spot on Independence Square. Short lived, this rail line carried passengers between the Independence-Wayne City River Landing and Independence Square. This innovative mode of transportation was not a locomotive nor horsepower, but it was a wheeled coach, or wagon, pulled along rails by Missouri mules.

Gettysburg National Military Park

“Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter” Then & Now
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Originally produced in Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the War, this photograph has become one of the most recognizable images of the Civil War. While the gun propped against the rock would almost certainly not have been used by a sharpshooter, nor is it likely that the soldier fell in this location, this photograph nevertheless presents a powerful narrative of the struggle in and around Devil’s Den on July 2, 1863.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Spanish Coins
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These Spanish coins found at the remains of Fort Stanwix/Schuyler would not have been used by conquistadors, nor anyone else of Spanish descent. Click here to find out why it would've been used in New York.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Echoes of the Olmsted Elm Assignment Three
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Five students from the Rhode Island School of Design used material from the Olmsted Elm to address the prompt: The demands of public spaces in a democratic society have been fraught with turmoil since our country’s founding. Public usage of public spaces does not always conform to the expectations of society nor necessarily adhere to the laws of a given time. Pick a period and explore this issue through an object.

Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

Kate Camden
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A Native American woman, possibly Wintu, known as Kate Camden lived and worked in the Camden household in Whiskeytown, California, during the Gold Rush. She was likely born around 1844, but her original name is not known, nor are details about her life before she worked for Charles and Philena Camden.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

Puma Profiles: P-11
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Very little is known about P-011. First captured in the winter of 2008 (a few days after P-010, actually), the collar on this young male stopped working several months later. He was never found again, nor his presence detected. It’s presumed that he died.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Friends Meetinghouse Interior
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Males and females sat on each side of an open partition, to encourage individual worship and full participation for women. With the emphasis on individual worship, the meetinghouse had no pulpit or altar, no crucifixes or stained glass, nor an organ or a choir.

Charles Curtis: The First American Indian to be Vice President of the United States
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When Charles Curtis was born in 1860, no one could have known that he was destined for a career in national politics. Nor that he would become the first with American Indian ancestry to hold the second highest office in the nation. Curtis was 1/8th American Indian and a descendent of Kaw Chief White Plume and Osage Chief Pawhuska. As a child, for a short time, he lived on the Kaw Indian Reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, an important stop on the Santa Fe Trail.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Old Trace, Milepost 221.4
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Preserved here is a portion of a nearly 200 year old postal road, the Old Natchez Trace. Maintaining this 500 mile long wilderness road in the early 1800s was a difficult if not hopeless task. As you look or walk down this sunken trace section nor the large trees growing on the edge of the section we clear today. These trees are mute testimony to the endless struggle between man to alter and change, and nature to reclaim, restore and heal.

Network to Freedom

Lost In Disguise Activity
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The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad. It was a movement. People who were enslaved ran away in order to be free. They were sometimes helped by others. Those who ran away are called freedom seekers. Find out how disguise helped them win their freedom.

Mount Rainier National Park

Slime Molds
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Slime molds are neither animals nor fungi, but can exhibit characteristics of both. Over 60 species of these mysterious organisms can be found in Mount Rainier National Park.

Communities Celebrate Designation of Susquehanna NHA
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Separated by the vast Susquehanna River, residents of York and Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania are known for having a (mostly friendly) rivalry. But neither river nor rivalry stopped locals from joining state and national representatives to celebrate the creation of the Susquehanna National Heritage Area (NHA) and their shared history, culture, and natural landscapes.