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Fort Scott National Historic Site
Growing Pains-Kansas in Chaos
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Fort Scott is the only NPS site directly involved in the "Bleeding Kansas” era. The division between pro and anti-slavery forces is reflected by the fact that a former officers' quarters served as the Fort Scott, or "Free State" Hotel while directly across the parade ground an old infantry barracks had become the Western or "Pro Slavery" Hotel.
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Lugares Históricos, a program of the Orlando, Florida-based Puerto Rican Organization for the Performing Arts (PROPA), identifies, celebrates, and demarcates historical sites associated with African-descended peoples in Puerto Rico.
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Madison Square Garden (1925), also known as MSG III, was an arena in New York City that operated from 1925 until 1968. MSG III was the site of several major political events where Jewish Americans spoke out against the Nazi government in Germany and its antisemitic goals. At the arena, American Jews wielded economic pressure against the regime, took direct action against fascism, and raised awareness about the victims of the Nazis’ murderous campaign.
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In 2023, interns collected and processed hundreds of thousands of native plant seeds at Lava Beds National Monument. In 2024, 4000 propagated native plants were planted at three sites to restore the land after the Caldwell and Antelope fires.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Senator Paul H. Douglas
- Type: Person
Educator and United States Senator instrumental in the conservation movement to save the Indiana Dunes from industrial development.
Fort Stanwix National Monument
The Van Schaick Expedition - April 1779
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In January of 1779, eight neutral Onondaga chiefs decided to cast their lot with the Oneida and Tuscarora. Only the Oneida and Tuscarora Nation were recognized by the Americans as allies. The Onondaga Nation claimed their overall stance to be neutral, but in addition to the neutrals there were pro-American and pro-British factions as well.
Yosemite National Park
Frog Creek Cabin
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Frog Creek Cabin is located in Tuolumne, California as a part of Yosemite National Park. The cabin was constructed in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps to house seasonal workers for the fish propagation program within Yosemite. The Frog Creek Cabin remains as evidence of the fish egg-collecting operations that once existed on the shore of Lake Eleanor.
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This is a series of lesson plans about the WWII home front, focused on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains primary and secondary sources readings, photographs, statistics and other resources, as well as questions for students to consider. The lessons highlight specific contributions of the people of Pittsburgh, and they connect to the larger themes and understanding of the US home front during wartime.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Photographing Wildlife From Your Car
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Encounters with wildlife are always a thrilling experience while exploring a natural area. Perhaps you bring a camera along in the hopes of capturing a shareable memory. So how do you get a good picture? Get pro tips from a savvy nature photographer.
Pearl Harbor National Memorial
Series: Ford Island Battleship Row Preservation
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The bungalows and accompanying terrain of Ford Island and Battleship Row are considered a cultural landscape. Guided by research, evaluation, and recommendations in a Cultural Landscape Report, the NPS has begun a multi-year effort to preserve the site. This includes repairs to the fleet mooring quays of Battleship Row and propagation of historic plants.
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The National Park Service will build climate resilience and increase biodiversity in threatened whitebark pine forest ecosystems by increasing capacity to collect seed and propagate blister rust resistant seedlings.
Pearl Harbor National Memorial
Propagating History: How Plants Can Bring a Historical Landscape to Life
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Working with Scientists in Parks, a program that partners early career scientists with projects in National Park units, Claire Kubacki began work on a plant program that will benefit the historic and cultural landscape of Pearl Harbor National Memorial. The goals of the project are to take cuttings of the historic trees and shrubs around the chief petty officer bungalows in order to propagate the very plants that stood witness to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The National Park Service (NPS) was only 26 years old when the United States entered World War II. The young bureau faced very real threats to its mission, with increasing pressure to contribute its natural and cultural resources to the war effort even as its budget and staff were slashed. Under the leadership of Director Newton B. Drury, the NPS was able to do its part for the war while maintaining its public trust responsibilities to the American people.
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Lula Belle Everidge was one of several Native American women who enlisted in SPARS, the women's branch of the Coast Guard during World War II. During the War she served up and down the East Coast to free men up for service overseas.
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This lesson is part of a series teaching about the World War II home front, with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a designated American World War II Heritage City. The lesson has photographs, secondary source readings, and a newspaper excerpt to show the contributions of Pittsburgh and its people to the War effort, and the change and development of the area. The lesson also has analysis of propaganda posters. There is an optional environmental history reading and activity.
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
Preservation Matters: Protective Glazing of Stained Glass
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Stained glass in places of worship light up religious spaces in beautiful and inspirational ways. Many places of worship have turned to protective glazing as a lower maintenance, affordable option to protect their stained glass. Also known as secondary glazing or storm glazing, protective glazing is a plastic or glass pane that is added to stained glass, typically on the exterior of the building. Learn more about the pros and cons of glazing stained glass.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Manhattan Project Scientists: Hans Bethe
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As part of the war effort Hans Bethe worked on a theory of armor penetration, with Edward Teller clarified shock-wave theory, and worked on radar at the Radiation Laboratory. When he was invited to Los Alamos as part of the Manhattan Project, he became head of the Theoretical Division. There he worked on aspects of implosion and radiation propagation, and, with Richard Feynman, calculated explosive yields.
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This project will assist these three parks in building climate resilience and increasing biodiversity in threatened WBP forest ecosystems by increasing their capacity to collect seed and propagate blister rust resistant seedlings.
Wind Cave National Park
Project Profile: Develop NPS and Tribal Native Seed Nodes in the Midwest Region at Wind Cave National Park
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The National Park Service will create two seed collection sites within the Midwest Region that could be expanded with partner organizations, one at Wind Cave National Park and one at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore with plant propagation capacity. Wind Cave National Park partnered with a tribal entity to collect native grass and forb species at five locations: three tribal reservations and two NPS sites - Wind Cave National Park and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Project Profile: Develop NPS and Tribal Native Seed Nodes in the Midwest Region
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The National Park Service will create two seed collection sites with plant propagation capacity within the Midwest Region that could be expanded with partner organizations, one at Wind Cave National Park and one at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.