Washita Battlefield National Historic Site protects and interprets the setting along the Washita River where Lt. Col. George A. Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry on a surprise dawn attack against the Southern Cheyenne village of Peace Chief Black Kettle, November 27, 1868. The attack was an important event of the Indian Wars era.
The site offers exhibits, an introductory film, guided tours, and lectures.
The Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site presents information on the Tuskegee Experience, a 1940's "military experiment" to train the United State's first African American military pilots.
This site offers exhibits, films, tours, children's activities, and an annual air show.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, hundreds of free and enslaved African Americans were buried in lower Manhattan. Over the ensuing decades, the ground was covered by development and a landfill. Today, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) manages the site. The national monument comprises a relatively small area of the original burial ground, which could possibly extend across Broadway to City Hall.
The site offers historical information about the site, information about the process by which it was designated a National Monument, and government reports regarding the site. The web site, which is linked to on the homepage of the website given here, has more relevant visitor information. In order to contact the National Monument via email, use the "contact us" link on the webpage.
The Inupiat Heritage Center presents the history and culture of the Inupiat people. Originally the only hunters of the bowhead whale, or Agviq, in the region, during the 19th century they came into contact with New England whalers. After this point, many Inupiat crewed on New Bedford vessels and/or traded with the commercial whalers.
The center offers exhibits, a traditional room, activities, tours, storytelling, lectures, dance performances, and Junior Ranger activities. The website offers a booklet of activities to be completed during school visits.
The Fort Vancouver National Historic Site commemorates the history of For Vancouver, the main supply depot of the British Hudson Bay Company's "Columbia Department" between 1824 and 1860. As such, the fort was central to a 700,000 mile fur trading network, which reached from Alaska to California and from the Rocky Mountains to Hawaii. The fort has also been used as the early end of the Oregon Trail and a U.S. Army Post. The community living in Fort Vancouver consisted of 35 distinct ethnicities. The site also operates the home of John McLoughlin, Chief Factor of Fort Vancouver between 18251845.
The site offers introductory talks at Fort Vancouver; audio tours, including a tour designed for children; self-guided tours; guided house tours; period rooms; an overnight living history program; hands-on exhibits; a children's hands-on archaeological program; Victorian handcraft, artillery, blacksmithing, carpentry, cooking, baking, and gardening demonstrations; Junior Ranger activities; and lantern tours. Reservations are required at both sites for school groups.
The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park presents the maritime history of the Pacific Coast. The visitor's center, within a 1908 cannery warehouse, discusses the ethnic diversity of the San Francisco area and displays a First Order Fresnel lighthouse lens. A variety of historic vessels and access to working boat builders are also available on site. Historic vessels include the 1886 square-rigger Balclutha, 1890 steam ferryboat Eureka, 1895 schooner C. A. Thayer, 1891 scow schooner Alma, 1907 steam tug Hercules, 1914 paddlewheel tug Eppleton Hall, and circa 1890 Bay Ark, as well as 6 small craft including a replica Chinese shrimp junk.
The park offers interactive exhibits, information panels, films, ranger-led interpretive programs, tours, sail raising demonstrations, Junior Ranger activities, and a research library. Tours are available on the pier, the Balclutha, the Eureka, and the Hercules. The library is open by appointment only. The website offers videos and a virtual tour, pre- and post-visit activities, curriculum materials, and other activities.
The Monocacy National Battlefield commemorates a Civil War battle fought 9 July, 1864, between the troops of Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early and Union General Lew Wallace. The Battle of Monocacy, or "The Battle that Saved D.C.," prevented Early from completing his campaign to relieve pressure from General Robert E. Lee and to capture Washington, D.C. Although the Confederates won the battle, the time lost permitted the Union to send reinforcements to the capital. The battle aside, Native Americans have been present in the area since the earliest human occupation of North America, nearly 10,000 years ago; and European explorers and traders arrived in the region in the early 1700s.
The park offers a self-guided six mile auto tour, a number of self-guided interpretive walking trails, exhibits, an introductory audio-visual presentation, guided tours, in-classroom speakers, and traveling trunks.
Fort Scott National Historic Site presents resources related to the opening of the West, the Permanent Indian Frontier, the Mexican American War, Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War, and the expansion of railroads. The site consists of 20 historic structures (11 open to the public), three separate exhibit areas, 31 rooms furnished as they might have been in the 1840s, a parade ground, and five acres of restored tallgrass prairie. The fort was established in 1842 to protect the Permanent Indian Frontier and housed soldiers until 1853, after which point it became the nucleus of a growing town. The site focuses on the years between 1842 and 1873.
The site offers a 12-minute audiovisual orientation; exhibits; guided and self-guided tours for school groups; exhibits; in-classroom speakers; and on-site educational programs for school groups, including self-guided scavenger and history hunts (available online), interpreters in period dress, interactive activities, pre- and post-visit materials (available online), student roleplaying, and plays.
Maine Acadian Culture is a National Park Service project in which the NPS supports the efforts of the Maine Acadian Heritage Council to preserve Acadian culture in Maine. The Acadians were 17th-century French settlers who colonized parts of Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island—the latter three being Canadian regions. These settlers arrived from different areas within France.
The National Park Service does not maintain any relevant sites. However, they do support 11 sites within Maine's St. John Valley. These sites are the Acadian Landing and Tante Blanche Museum, Acadian Village, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, B and A Caboose and Green Water Tank, B and A Railroad Turntable, Fort Kent Blockhouse, Fort Kent Railroad Station, Historic Governor Brann Schoolhouse, Le Club Français, Musée culturel du Mont-Carmel, and Pelletier-Marquis House.
The Manzanar National Historic Site preserves the history of the Manzanar War Relocation Center, an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. The site today is home to a visitor center and the Merritt Park Archaeological Dig.
The park offers guided tours, field trip programs, exhibits, and outreach programs such as educator resources boxes. The website offers detailed historical information regarding the park, as well as visitor information. In order to contact the park via email, use the "contact us" link located on the left side of the webpage.