Introducing Official Passport America250™ Ink Stampers

America 250, American Revolution, ANP Home, Passport To Your National Parks

We’re excited to announce that the official Passport To Your National Parks® America250™ Ink Cancellation stampers have been shipped to all National Park Service units! While the nation looks forward to July 4th, 2026, there are other great America’s 250th...

Supporting Andersonville NHS Travelling Trunk Program

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Andersonville National Historic Site utilized America’s National Parks™ funds to support its Travelling Trunk Program. Andersonville was the site of a Confederate prison that held Union Soldiers and is known as one of the deadliest sites of the Civil War,...

America’s National Parks™ 250th Grant Program – History Happens Here 

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America’s National Parks™ has awarded a total of $250,000 to 11 National Park Service units through the America’s National Parks™ 250th Grant Program – History Happens Here to support the parks’ efforts in the upcoming celebrations for the 250th Anniversary of the...

A “Dark and Bloody” Path of Resistance: The Chickamauga Cherokee

America 250, American Revolution

After the Seven Years War, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, restricting colonists from encroaching on Native American lands west of Appalachia. The decree was largely ignored. Then, in 1774, a land speculator coerced the Cherokee to part with 20...

Micajah Hicks, Agrippa Hull, and the Black Patriots of the Southern Theater

America 250, American Revolution

In September 1848, 86-year-old Mary Hicks appeared before a Justice of the Peace. She was applying for a widow’s pension. Her deceased husband, Micajah Hicks, served in the 1st Regiment of the NC line from 1779 through 1782. After the American army surrendered in...