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Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

The Legacy of the Port Royal Experiment

Type: Article

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.”

Teaching Suffrage: She's Good Enough

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How can popular culture be used to advocate for change? In this learning activity for sixth-eighth grade, students examine a suffrage illustration modeled on a popular cartoon circulated during Teddy Roosevelt's re-election campaign. They will analyze the use of cultural touchstones to change public perception about an issue and evaluate when they have been influenced by popular culture.

Dr. Anna Julia Cooper (1859-1964) and "A Voice from the South"

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Born into slavery in 1859, Cooper would become a distinguished author, activist, educator, and scholar. She lived a life that redefined society’s limitations and opportunities for Black women. Despite her enduring legacy, she has yet to become a household name. We honor Dr. Anna Julia Cooper as an ancestor for her tireless work to re-center and uplift the voices of Black women in a pursuit of a more just society for everyone.

Repeat fires tip the scale on near-surface permafrost in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve

Type: Article

In July 2024, fire ecologists re-visited a study area an in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve that burned twice in rapid series. The 2009 Chakina Fire burned ~ 56,000 acres in the Chitina River Valley. A mere seven years later, a third of the Chakina fire area reburned in the 2016 Steamboat Fire.

Grand Portage National Monument

Anishinaabe Oodena (Ojibwe Village) Re-creation

Type: Place

Fur traders constructed their posts near Native villages for survival and convenience. This re-creation of a small village at the NWCo Depot exemplifies the economic partnership between the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and the Northwest Company.

Promoting post-fire recovery of western Joshua tree habitat

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The human-caused Geology fire started on June 10, 2023, along the Berdoo Canyon Road, one of Joshua Tree National Park’s designated backcountry routes. The Burned Area Recovery plan promotes recovery of native vegetation, establishing restoration islands within the burned area to promote re-establishment of native perennial vegetation, including Joshua trees.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Mt. Lyn Lowry Overlook

Type: Place

Located along the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mt. Lyn Lowry Overlook provides scenic views of Mt. Lyn Lowry, the Woodfin Cascades, and the 60-foot cross erected in Lyn Lowry’s honor. In 1962, this mountain was re-named for Lowry, a fifteen-year-old who died of leukemia.

Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts

Filene Center

Type: Place

The Filene Center is the primary performance venue at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. This iconic, open-air amphitheater theater includes the covered seating area which can accommodate up to 3,868 persons. The original Filene Center opened in 1971, but was destroyed by a fire in 1982. This structure re-opened for the 1984 performance season.

8 Things You Might Not Know About the Federal Historic Tax Credit

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The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program, commonly referred to as the federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC), encourages private sector investment in the rehabilitation and re-use of historic buildings. It creates jobs and is one of the nation's most successful and cost-effective community revitalization programs.

Project Profile: Manage Invasive Plants and Re-Seed Degraded Lands to Maintain Healthy Rangelands in Intermountain Region Park Units

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The National Park Service will improve rangeland conditions and climate resilience across parks in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. This will include rangeland ecosystem assessments, the monitoring of forage availability and vegetation conditions, the restoration of rangeland infrastructure and grazing allotments, and adding staff capacity in parks.

Project Profile: Remove Invasive Species to Protect Native and At-risk Species in the Colorado River

Type: Article

The National Park Service will launch a landscape-scale conservation effort that seeks to re-establish control over populations of invasive species in the Colorado River and engage youth and Tribal Conservation Corps in a multi-park approach to ensure climate resilience, restoration, and response. Across parks connected to the Colorado River, the National Park Service will combat rapid changes instilled due to climate change at the following parks...

Pony Express National Historic Trail

See the Pony Express Re-Ride

Type: Article

As the riders make their way from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, there are scheduled exchanges were the riders will hand off the mochila and a new rider will continue the delivery. The ride takes place 24 hours a day so some of these happen in the middle of the night! Though the schedule is subject to change, here are the some of the places that you can watch an exchange or see the riders ride by (during daylight hours!)

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Presidio San Agustín del Tucson

Type: Place

The Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum is a re-creation of the Tucson Presidio built in 1775, the same year that the Anza expedition passed through along the Santa Cruz River along the overland route that would establish the city of San Francisco and Spanish power in Alta California. An Anza NHT Passpost Stamp is located here.

San Cayetano de Calabazas

Type: Place

Only accessible during guided tours, the Calabazas mission site offers an excellent perspective on the adaptive re-use of mission-era buildings through the Civil War period and beyond.

National Mall and Memorial Parks

Japanese Lantern

Type: Place

Presented to the city of Washington on March 30, 1954, this stone lantern symbolizes the enduring cultural partnership that re-emerged between Japan and the United States after World War II. The lantern is one of two memorializing Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa Dynasty, under his posthumous name Daiyuinden. Carved in 1651, it stood for over 300 years on the grounds of the Toeizan Kan'eiji Temple which contained the remains of the Tokugawa Shoguns. The temp

Arctic Inventory & Monitoring Network

How Arctic rivers respond to hydrological disturbances

Type: Article

Read the abstract and get the link to this article about hydrological response to disturbance in Arctic streams: Shogren, A. J., J. P. Zarnetske, B. W. Abbott, A. L. Grose, A. F. Rec, J. Nipko, C. Song, J. A. O’Donnell, and W. B. Bowden. 2024. Hydrology controls dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen export and post-storm recovery in two Arctic headwaters. JGR Biogeosciences 129(2): e2023JG007583.

This is the Place Heritage Park

Type: Place

This Is the Place Heritage Park, near the location where Brigham Young first surveyed the valley in July 1847, represents the Mormon arrival. But as the City of the Saints grew from a rustic frontier village to a bustling territorial capital, many California-bound travelers paused here for a layover to rest, re-supply, or spend the winter. The Pony Express descended the canyon and went through town, too, carrying mail to a station on Main Street.

Chamizal National Memorial

Vantage Point: Desert Landscape

Type: Place

At this vantage point along the trail, observe the struggle between a designed landscape and an attempt to re-establish native vegetation. Contemplate the success of the Chamizal Treaty and its unintended consequences.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Solicitation For A Request For Expression Of Interest For The Adaptive Reuse Of The Bailly Homestead

Type: Article

The National Park Service announces a Request for Expressions of Interest for the adaptive re-use of the Bailly Main House and the 4 associated outbuildings. This is the location of the early trading post established in 1822 by fur trade pioneer Joseph Bailly. The NPS may choose all or part of the content of one or more responses to the RFEI for further development into a public solicitation that the NPS then would advertise to the public.

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

Quebec-One MAF

Type: Place

Built in 1962 as a Minuteman missile launch control facility, Quebec-01 was re-purposed for the Peacekeeper Missile in 1986 and was used until 2005. Twenty-five miles north of Cheyenne, the Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility is open to the public as a Wyoming State Park.

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