Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

Anna Hall Roosevelt

Arnold Berge

Caroline O'Day

David Gurewitsch

Earl Miller

Eleanor Roosevelt

Elizabeth Read

Elliott Roosevelt

Hester Bateman (1708-1794) achieved fame as an innovative entrepreneur in eighteenth-century London, at a time when women were largely excluded from the formal trades and professions.

Retired Airforce TSgt. Jennifer Norris recounts how her travels to national parks help her cope with PTSD. She shares her story so that you may also find ways to heal in national parks.

With well over 100 citizen-science based apps now available for smartphones, there is no lack of opportunity for people of all ages and affectations to significantly add to the collective knowledge base about many aspects of the natural world. The phrase “there is an app for that” has perhaps never been more true for natural resource monitoring.

The history of how many significant moments at Muir Woods were influenced by a network of influential women and LGB leaders. Learn about the conditions of the time period and how Pauli Murray, Jane Addams, Frances Perkins, and others effected change.

Diane Harris was initially reluctant to pursue a Park Service career. However, she soon found that national parks were "in her blood". Her 26-year career saw her rise from clerk to superintendent at one of our most iconic national monuments.

The Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (Val-Kill) is a 180.5-acre site located in the Hudson Valley of New York State. The cultural landscape preserves the home of Eleanor Roosevelt that began as an informal retreat for the former First Lady and later became her primary residence after the death of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1945. Val-Kill primarily served as a place for relaxation.

Eleanor Roosevelt did not consider herself a suffragist, but her leadership following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment demonstrates a life committed to the rights and welfare of women.

By October of 1942, Eleanor Roosevelt was on her way to visit a country in the midst of war, where the shrill sounds of air raid sirens and the whistle of German bombs were a part of daily life. Despite the danger, Eleanor Roosevelt was determined to go because she wanted to be doing something useful.