National Monument

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-12-17
  

  President Obama Designates First National Monument Dedicated to Reconstruction

  The Reconstruction monument, backed by Eric Foner, includes several sites near Beaufort, S.C., which fell under control of the Union Army in November 1861, and became one of the first places where emancipated slaves voted, bought property and created churches, schools and businesses.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-19-16
  

  Richard Moe calls on Obama to make Utah's Bears Ears a national monument. Bears Ears?

  by Richard Moe

  Bears Ears represents the most important and intact array of unprotected cultural resources on federal land.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-26-16
  

  Gays are being put back into American history. Quietly.

  President Obama’s designation on Friday of the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village as a national monument comes amid a push across the country to write lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people into the nation’s collective history, an effort that has been quietly underway for years.

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• SOURCE: The Blaze
  6-24-16
  

  Obama Designates Historic Stonewall Inn a National Monument

  “I believe our national parks should reflect the full story of our country, the richness and the diversity and uniquely American spirit that has always defined us — that we are stronger together, that out of many, we are one,” Obama said.