Because the National Park Service reflects the historical priorities of Americans over time, it's not surprising that it is so lacking in sites interpreting Reconstruction, since the great growth period for the NPS came when Reconstruction was not seen as so central to U.S. history...
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I am very happy to see that President Obama named five new national monuments yesterday. Two are dedicated to preserving public lands--the San Juan Islands in Washington and the Rio.
Most of us might not see the direct impact of the sequester on our lives yet. But for those reliant on the federal government, it's already hurting bad. The Post.
I am quite happy that President Obama has created the César Chávez National Monument. Although we are in a moment of much needed Chávez revisionism that begins to take apart the hagiography that plagued early literature on the United Farm Workers, he is still the...
There's an effort to turn the site of the 1894 Pullman Strike into a national park site. You should support this. I have not yet discussed the Pullman Strike in.
An iconic moment in environmental history is the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Dam. San Francisco, always desperate for fresh water supplies, looked to the Sierra Nevada to quench its.
One way Obama's lands policy has frustrated many in the environmental community is that, unlike most other Democratic presidents in memory and many Republicans for that matter, he has been reticent to use the 1906 Antiquities Act to create new protected lands. This is part...
As will become even clearer over time as I continue to write here, I can be pretty obsessive about things. One of those things is museums. Museums really affect me.