In 1933, the pioneering Black linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner met an elderly Gullah Geechee woman named Amelia Dawley in a remote coastal village south of Savannah, Georgia. While Turner recorded, Dawley sang a song…
How a Civil War Shipwreck Became America's First Sanctuary, 40 Years Ago
Painting by Tom Freeman depicting the sinking of the Monitor during a violent storm off North Carolina in the early…
Niagara Falls, NY, is not only a place of natural wonder, it also a central location in the history of African American resistance to slavery and discrimination. During the 19th century, Niagara Falls was one of the last stops on…
By Emma Skelley
December 2017
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, located 16 miles off of Cape Hatteras in the Outer Banks, was the first sanctuary to be designated in the National…
More than 18 years ago, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States sent troops to Afghanistan with NATO as a measure to protect the U.S. homeland and its allies from the threat of terrorism.…
Growing up in the periphery of the civil war in Nepal, Apekshya Prasai was exposed to a 10-year conflict that by some accounts left 19,000 people dead and 150,000 people internally displaced.
The insurgency was…
The USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was created not to protect marine life, but to preserve an important Civil War-era shipwreck. In 1975, the region surrounding the!--IMAGE>…
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