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https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/disabled-defense-workers-on-the-world-war-ii-home-front.htm
Disabled Defense Workers on the World War II Home Front More to Explore This article...Disability and the World War II Home Front. During World War ...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/us-grant-bicentennial-junior-ranger-part-3.htm
Bicentennial Junior Ranger - Part 3: The Civil War Drawing of Grant and Lee shaking...House NPS Biography Part 3 - The Civil War Ulysses Grant and his ...
https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/african-americans-during-the-civil-war-a-compressed-history.htm
Plan African Americans During the Civil War: A Compressed History Kennesaw Mountain...to the war effort? 2. What was life like during the American Civ ...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/self-guided-african-american-history-tour-of-st-paul-s.htm
Rebecca Turner, who died in 1874, at age 93. Born into slavery in 1781, Rebecca...freedom in the very early stages of the Civil War. In 1864, Carter ...
https://www.nps.gov/people/moses-williams.htm
...up illiterate. Shortly after the Civil War in 1866, Congress established the...Williams enlisted in the Army by signing an “X” on his enlistment ...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/charlestown-navy-yard.htm
...newly-formed United States emerged from its War of Independence facing threats to its...that challenged the British Navy in the War of 1812. Among ...
https://www.nps.gov/anti/learn/historyculture/slavery-and-emancipation-in-sharpsburg.htm
...cavalry, and artillery units during the war. Annie Davis, a woman enslaved in Maryland...males, to the age of twenty-one years, and if females, to the ...
https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/documenting_union_pows.htm
Documenting Union Prisoners of War held at Andersonville...Contact Us Documenting Prisoners of War held at Andersonville The database ...
https://www.nps.gov/hofr/learn/historyculture/a-philip-randolph.htm
...the nation for war. Soon, thousands of African American men aged twenty-one to...Roosevelt’s War Department had anticipated. One in six of all enlistm ...
https://www.nps.gov/people/dorothy-stratton.htm
Women’s Reserve (SPARS) during World War II. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Coast...Guard during World War II. Her leadership during the war worked to ...
https://www.nps.gov/people/stephen-cabot.htm
...mercantile business prior to the US Civil War. Joining the military, he served...position through the end of the war. After the war, he returned to ...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-legacy-of-general-john-henry-hobart-ward.htm
Gettysburg’s career soldiers Rising from the enlisted ranks to that of a general officer...military family, Ward enlisted in the 7th U.S. Infantry at ...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/patriots-of-color-at-fort-schuyler-in-the-mohawk-valley.htm
...number of New York State Revolutionary War archives (including muster, descriptive...its forces based on color until the War of 1812. They remained ...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/women-of-the-civil-war.htm
Down Boundaries: Women of the Civil War A Civil War nurse writes a letter for an...an injured soldier. The Civil War was an unprecedented event in ...
https://www.nps.gov/people/prince-estabrook-of-lexington.htm
...soldiers in the militia, they were still required to “turn out” armed during an emergency...emergency. During wartime the enlistment of black men was ...
https://www.nps.gov/mana/planyourvisit/saturday-july-22-schedule.htm
Visitor Center 10:00AM Horses in the Civil War Join a park ranger and the three...learn about the role of horses in the civil war, the equipment of ...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/learning-from-mabel-keaton-staupers.htm
...integrate nursing during and after World War II. Congratulating Spingarn winner....integration of Black nurses through World War II. Born in Barbados ...
https://www.nps.gov/fopu/learn/historyculture/workersvillage.htm
...for its 30-hour battle during the Civil War. However, Fort Pulaski only exists...building the ditch and dike system, required a tremendous amount of ...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/private-josiah-murphey.htm
...with permission from his parents, enlisted in the 20th Massachusetts Infantry...Josiah served until the end of his enlistment in August 1864. He ...
https://www.nps.gov/eise/learn/news/wwii-weekend-2022.htm
News News Releases News Release World War II Weekend, September 16 – 18, 2022...2022 A family talks with a World War II living historian at his Post ...