Hazel Ying Lee was one of the first Chinese American women to earn her pilot's license and the first to fly for the United States military. In World War II, Lee served with the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). But her experience to the skies was not always free of turbulence. Learn about Hazel's […]
FREE in-person, drop-in program Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas, origin in 1865, the observance of African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. Today, Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. It is […]
Celebrate freedom with Fort Ticonderoga! The year is 1777 and America is consumed in the labor of liberty. Join the Northern Department of the Continental Army in the fight for freedom, to keep the great fortress of Ticonderoga from falling into British control.
In this excerpt from "Riding the Rails to Hero Street" immigrants fleeing the Mexican Revolution settle in Silvis, Illinois, work for the railroad, and live in a boxcar village. Later they move to the block-an-a-half-long 2nd Street and eight sons of these immigrants are lost in WWII and and Korea. More lost than from any […]
Be Washington is a first-person interactive leadership experience. Come face to face with challenges that George Washington confronted as commander in chief or president in four key scenarios.
This site features four exhibits: Aboard the USS Intrepid; Concorde. A Supersonic Story; On Liberty, Intrepid's Ports of Call During the Vietnam War; and Navy Cakes. The exhibits feature 360 and 2D images, scans of artifacts and documents.
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, from 1901 to 1909. Here you can read about his six children, their lives at the White House and beyond. Find out which of his children served in World War I, in World War II, and which one was not afraid to adamantly disagree with […]
Henry Johnson, a Black man who had left the South as part of the Great Migration, signed up to serve his country during World War I. But the American military at the time was segregated, and Pvt. Henry Johnson and his regiment of Harlem Hellfighters were attached to a French army unit on the front […]