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"I offer this work not only as a foray into the past world of American girls and the meanings they made outside, but also as a field guide for any watchful reader who tracks the stars and wonders, with a quixotic mix of audacity and awe, where those faint lights might lead. History tells us that change is possible when people find ways through the fog."
What is Wild Girls by Tiya Miles?
This national park was the first east of the Mississippi and is also the first alphabetically.
What is Acadia National Park?
This person, 20th president of the US, was born in a log cabin in what is today Moreland Hills, OH and his library is maintained in Mentor, OH.
Who is James A. Garfield?
Around 1790, Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land that became this city.
What is Washington, DC?
1833
What year was Oberlin College (then called Oberlin Collegiate Institute) founded?
"Consuming other people's labor, dispossessing other people of land and life connection to it, devaluing human rights, and diminishing one's community, autonomy, and health—these are not just events of the past...A wiser measure of the ecological footprint would include people, or at least their labor. It might factor in the losses of relationship with land or home, losses of self-determination, and losses of health or life. What if the footprint measured, over time, on whom and what the nation's foot has trod—that is, who has paid for prosperity?"
What is Trace by Lauret Savoy?
Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America at 282 feet below sea level, is in this national park.
What is Death Valley National Park?
This Oberlin alum led the first geological survey of the land that would become the first National Park.
Who is Ferdinand Hayden?
The first Republican president
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
For more than 100 years, this Oberlin institution has conserved, celebrated, and shared more than 15,000 works spanning over six millennia—and it is free for everyone to visit.
What is the Allen Memorial Art Museum?
"The national parks are widely understood as 'America's best idea' and are both popular and relatively noncontroversial in the United States. But the establishment and history of almost every national park has been characterized by conflict over competing claims to land, history, heritage, stewardship responsibilities, and economic interests...Like any major area of public policy, the fissures present in debates over the national parks also represent important fracture lines in the public understanding of the meaning of 'America,' of individual claims to citizenship, and of the habits of mind and governmental practices associated with both."
What is For the Enjoyment of the People[: the Creation of National Identity in American Public Lands] by Mary Stuckey?
Though not the first "official" national park, this site was created by an act of Congress in 1832—the first time that land was set aside by the federal government to be preserved for recreation. It became a national park in 1921.
What is Hot Springs National Park?
This piece of legislation, signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, created the National Park Service as a federal bureau within the Department of the Interior.
What is the Organic Act of 1916?
1773 marked the publication of this writer's book of poetry, the first in the US by an African American.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
A sunny day gathering spot on campus, for a time the site of intense protests, built in memory of Oberlin affiliates killed during the Boxer Rebellion?
What is the Memorial Arch?
"Today the idea of nature-in-reserve shapes something much more fundamental than national identity, namely what counts as being well, having a life, and having a future. Its most powerful vehicle, the wilderness spectacle, has been our answer to the diminished future that faces all forms of life in late capitalism, so it is only natural that we shudder at the thought of putting our hands on nature-in-reserve. It seems especially counterintuitive to do so in the service of humans, who are the cause of all the trouble in the first place and the very beings we so passionately wish to outrun."
What is The National Park to Come by Margret Grebowicz?
This remote cluster of islands in Lake Superior is the least visited national park in the lower 48 states.
What is Isle Royale National Park?
This writer and conservationist once referred to national parks as "America's best idea."
Who is Wallace Stegner?
To combat fuel shortages, Congress enacted this for almost 10 months in 1974, from January to October, instead of the usual March to November.
What is Daylight Savings Time?
More than 240
What is the number of Steinway pianos in the Oberlin Conservatory?
"The ultimate stake of the book is this: historical consciousness—not only what we think of the past, but how we think of it and for what purpose—is inextricable from its cultural context...Historical knowledge and understanding inform how we think of ourselves and the world around us."
What is History Comes Alive[: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s] by M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska?
This site includes the tallest monument in the NPS system.
What is Gateway Arch National Park?
This piece of legislation established the National Wilderness Preservation System and defined wilderness as "in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain."
What is the Wilderness Act of 1964?
This Connecticut native was a general in both the American and British armies during the Revolutionary War.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
A key event in the history of abolition in the US, this daring effort helped John Price reach freedom in Canada.
What is the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue?