National Historical Park – Page 2

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It is the third Monday in January, a date set aside to honor one of the greatest civil rights activists…

Last week we talked about how the movie “Current Wars” made us think about Thomas Edison National Historical Park in…

We just saw The Current War – a movie about Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. It was interesting because we…

August 2019 marks the 103rd anniversary of the National Park Service so we looked to see if there were any…

Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park, in what is now Brownsville Texas, was the site of the first clash in…

It was 150 years ago, in the year 1869, that the transcontinental railway became a reality. Two rail lines met…

As the country lies in the throes of winter, our thoughts turned to the winter of 1777-78 and the third…

With the US mid-term elections upon us, it made us think about how recently it was that women got the…

When you think of national park units, you don’t often think of a factory. But that is what Lowell National…

#HappyFathersDay There is one National Park Unit that commemorates both a father and a son. That is Adams National Historical…