Women comprise more than half of the population and make history virtually everywhere. Yet, only 13 U.S. national park sites specifically commemorate some aspect of women’s history. The number of ...
Across the 429 parks, monuments and historic sites managed by the National Park Service, only 76 are named after women, or otherwise center women’s history. This is a problem, because women have—and ...
Afghanistan’s Band-e-Amir National Park was known for having employed the country’s first-ever female park rangers. Now, women won’t even be allowed to visit, let alone work there, as the Taliban ...
Park rangers don’t get much more Yellowstone than Marguerite “Peg” Lindsley. In 1901 she was born at Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, the headquarters for Yellowstone National Park, where her father ...
The Moa Indigenous community live in a remote region of Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province, on the fringe of a national park established in the 1990s. The society’s customary rules and norms ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- When Judy Hart accepted the job as a park ranger for the National Park Service, she was practically standing on an island alone. ”There is a whole history of the Park Service ...
The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks. By Jennifer Schuessler The end of a presidency tends ...
Park rangers don’t get much more Yellowstone than Marguerite “Peg” Lindsley. In 1901 she was born at Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, the headquarters for Yellowstone National Park, where her father ...