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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Wayside: What Does Sleeping Bear Dunes Mean to You?
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Reformer and writer Julia Ward Howe is most famous for writing the words to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" during the American Civil War and the "Mother's Day Proclamation" (1870). She advocated for the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, and peace.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
World War I Memorial
Peace Fountain: Archibald MacLeish
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The Peace Fountain stands along the western end of the Memorial. The fountain has words in raised letters by Archibald MacLeish, a poet, and Congressional Librarian.
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.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Henry Blake Fuller
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Henry Blake Fuller was a key figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance, renowned for pioneering social realism in American literature. He is noted for being one of the first American novelists to explore homosexual themes. Fuller had a complicated love-hate relationship with Chicago. He frequently found solace at Indiana Dunes, which served as a retreat from urban life and a source for inspiration.
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Washington Square has been known for decades as a place for bohemians, jazz and folk musicians, protesters, poets and people in love. It is also where the first gay and lesbian protest occurred in New York City after the Stonewall Uprising of 1969.
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The James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut is nationally significant for its close, forty-one-year association with James Ingram Merrill (1926-95), one of his generation's most acclaimed poets---considered peerless among his contemporaries who were writing in meter and rhyme.
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Rachel Louise Carson was a biologist, writer, and environmental activist. Most of Carson's writing expressed her love of nature and concern for future generations. With language that was both poetic and compelling, she inspired people to become interested in the natural world.
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Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.
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Walt Whitman was a poet and bohemian who volunteered as a nurse in Union army hospitals during the American Civil War. His epic poem "Leaves of Grass", which he altered and expanded upon all his life, is one of the most important and impressive achievements of the American literary canon.
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The Baldwin Residence is significant for its association with American author and activist James Baldwin. He owned this house and used it as his primary American home from 1965-1987. Baldwin made important contributions to American literature and social history. As a gay Black author, civil rights activist, and social commentator, he shaped discussions about race and sexuality. He was active in literary, political, and social circles, influencing all of them.
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This article offers activities relating to poet Katharine Lee Bates. She is most well known for her poem “America” (also known as "America the Beautiful").
Muir Woods National Monument
Elsa Gidlow's "Chains of Fires"
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When Elsa Gidlow first laid eyes on the land above Muir Woods National Monument, she knew it was “the place to realize a dream.” That dream was Druid Heights, her home from the mid-1950s until her death in 1986. As a lesbian writer, poet, and philosopher she refused to conform to mainstream America’s ideas about family, love, and home. Every year she lit a Winter Solstice Fire, a ritual that connected her with women across time.
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The opening lines of “America the Beautiful” first struck Katharine Lee Bates atop Pikes Peak in the Rocky Mountains. During the summer of 1893, she embarked on a journey across the United States. Originally written as a poem, many of the lines in Bates’ ode to the American landscape refer to geographical features she encountered during her travels.
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar
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Alice Dunbar Nelson was a poet, critic, journalist and activist who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Boston Marriages
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Longfellow’s writing, and that of members of his social circle, provide contemporary audiences a lens on the history of romantic relationships between women in New England in the 1800s. Boston Marriages were a newer concept in the second half of the 1800s, owing its meaning to the women involved in them. Women in these marriages were often from New England, college-educated, financially independent, and with careers of their own.
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Born into a biracial family in 1880, the poet and playwright Angelina Weld Grimke lived her earliest years at 61 Temple Street, in a neighborhood long known as a hotbed of Black activism.
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
Elizabeth Read
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Elizabeth Fisher Read, a scholar and one of Eleanor Roosevelt's earliest female political and feminist mentors, was Roosevelt's personal attorney and financial advisor during the first part of her public career.
Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana
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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.