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Manhattan Project National Historical Park

New Bethel Baptist Church
  • Type: Place

New Bethel Baptist Church is one of only a few pre-Manhattan Project structures remaining from Scarboro community. The church’s congregation was founded in 1851 but this structure was built in 1924. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Located on the secure Oak Ridge National Laboratory grounds, the church is not currently accessible to the public.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Oak Ridge Wayside: Scarboro
  • Type: Place

A wayside exhibit in Oak Ridge, Tennessee describing Scarboro, a community within the secret city.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Manhattan Project Scientists: Harry Daghlian
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Harry Daghlian was among the promising young scientists who came to work at Los Alamos as part of the Manhattan Project. Harotune Krikor Daghlian Jr. (1921-1945), known as Harry, was raised in Illinois, attended MIT, and had graduated from Purdue University. He had not yet earned his doctorate in physics when he joined Project Y. Daghlian was assigned to work with Otto Frisch’s Criticality Assembly Group. He helped transport the plutonium core to the Trinity Site.

Gender and Sexuality in Native America: Pueblo of Acoma, NM
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In what is now the mesa-top Pueblo of Acoma, men with effeminate physical attributes or personal tendencies were known by many names including mujerado, qo-qoy-mo, and kokwina. They dressed and lived as women, had relationships with men, and fulfilled women's roles in the community. Much like today's queer culture, mujerados of Acoma appear to have experienced varied levels of cultural acceptance.

Series: Finding Our Place: LGB Heritage in the United States
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In many ways, the histories of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) Americans have been obscured and erased. The threat of physical harm and persecution led many to live a closeted lifestyle. Historical references to LGB contributions to American heritage are rare and in many examples, the prejudiced attitudes of the author are obvious. In recent years, scholars have focused on uncovering the history of LGB communities and expanding our understanding of American history

Unfit for Service: Physical Fitness and Civic Obligation in World War II
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World War II brought widespread attention to physical fitness and disability across the US. As part of the military’s mobilization, all drafted and enlisted men had to undergo physical and psychiatric examinations to assess their fitness for war. About 19 million American men were drafted, but nearly half of them didn’t make the cut. Explore some of the reasons behind the draft’s rejection rate of over 40% as well as some of the factors that disqualified people from service.

Frances Perkins House
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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.

Boston National Historical Park

Anger and Opposition to the Stamp Act
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When news of the Stamp Act reached Bostonians in spring of 1765, they opposed the new tax on paper documents. Reacting through the written word and physical violence, Bostonians played a significant role in the repeal of the Stamp Act before it came in effect.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Students, Alpine Hotshots Form Bond through Rocky Mountain Fire Training Program
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The “Fire!” program links students from Eagle Rock School with Alpine Interagency Hotshot Crew members and ecologists from Rocky Mountain National Park and the NPS Continental Divide Research Learning Center. The course is based on experiential learning through a hands-on approach, including physical training standards. Students learn about succession and fire’s effects on ecosystems and work out scenarios to apply what they learned about fire suppression.

Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park

Ellwood Grounds
  • Type: Place

First constructed in the 1700s, Ellwood is best known for its association with the Battles of Chancellorsville and the Wilderness during the Civil War. However, this place has a much wider and more expansive history. Learn about the people who first inhabited this land and the ways that colonial settlement altered the physical landscape.

First State National Historical Park

Beaver Creek Ruins
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The ruins along Beaver Creek provide a physical reminder of the industrial history of the Brandywine Valley. The mills in the area provided finished goods that were then shipped around the nation and the world, making the Brandywine Valley a major early center for the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

Lowell National Historical Park

Lyddie: Voices from the Field - Chapter 02 Farm families
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Farm families in nineteenth-century New England might choose to hire out or indenture their children if they found themselves in debt. A farm provided a home and a way to grow food and make a living, but it was also hard, physical work that depended on the weather and land quality for success.

Gauley River National Recreation Area

Project Profile: Secure Abandoned Mine Features at Gauley River
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The National Park Service will construct physical safety closures on 13 abandoned mine adits and remove old mining equipment and debris on a 3-mile section of mine bench in Gauley River National Recreation Area.

Boston National Historical Park

Mary O'Brien
  • Type: Person

In 1943, 27-year-old Mary O'Brien walked into the Charlestown Navy Yard seeking employment. With her decision, O'Brien took an active role in supporting the country's efforts during World War II.

Boston National Historical Park

Barbara Tuttle Green
  • Type: Person

As a welder at the Charlestown Navy Yard, Barbara Tuttle Green worked under demanding conditions, facing health risks and physical exhaustion to support the war effort.

Maggie Gee
  • Type: Person

Maggie Gee was of one of two Chinese American World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She was also a noted political activist and research physicist.

Glacier's Avalanche Cycles: Past, Present, and Future
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USGS physical scientist Erich Peitzsch uses tree cross-sections and cores to establish a timeline of past avalanche activity. By looking at avalanche cycles over the past 100-200 years, Peitzsch hopes to learn whether or not climate change will affect avalanche behavior in the future.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Point Bonita YMCA
  • Type: Place

Situated on the bluffs between the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay, the Point Bonita YMCA offers opportunities for individuals and groups to participate in environmental education, host retreats and engage in physical recreation.

Indiana Dunes National Park

John Samuel Hawkinson, Jr.
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John Samuel Hawkinson, Jr. was an artist, educator, and conservationist known for his deep love for the natural world. Both he and his wife, Lucy Ozone Hawkinson used art to build connections between children and nature. The Hawkinson's lived in what was known as the Central Dunes— part of the over 5,000-acre area that the Save the Dunes Council had originally wished to save as a national park. Hawkinson was the last to sell his property to Bethlehem Steel.

League of the Physically Handicapped
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From 1935 to 1938, a group of physically disabled New Yorkers who called themselves the League of the Physically Handicapped, organized to protest certain policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. Decades before the sit-ins and protests of the 1960s, they pioneered some of the tactics that activists would employ during pivotal events of the Civil Rights Movement.