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Resources in American History ranging from general sites to specific event information.

If you love mad science, you are about to be ecstatic. In these amazing historic images of laboratories — many over a century old — you can see the crazy, brilliant scientific instruments of. History of the Laboratory. Berkeley Scientific Great Owen Chamberlain Has Died; Lab Mourns Death of Molly Lawrence, Widow of Ernest O. Lawrence; The First 50 Years: The Historians' View (multiple chapters) The Lab History: From Particle Physics to the Full Spectrum of Science.

General History Resources

American Experience

Access to PBS series about American history. Many programs are available online.

American Historical Association

As the professional organization for historians, the AHA advocates for the profession and provides information, awards and grants, and resources for educators.

Archiving Early America

This site provides historical documents from 18th century America.

A Biography of America

This site was designed to be a self-contained college-level history course. Resources include access to videos covering 26 topics, and content mirroring that of most U.S. history text books.

Center for History and New Media

Links to general history resources as well as specific events.

Discover History

The National Park Service offers links to Features of People, Places & Stories and Features of Preservation, Guidance & Grants.

History & Social Studies

This site from the National Endowment for the Humanities provides lesson plans about American history.

History Collection

University of Pennsylvania Libraries' links to resources with text archives and image sites.

National History Day

Provides resources for educators.

National Museum of American History

Access to information about the museum's extensive holdings as well as online exhibits.

Naval History & Heritage Command

Offers information about the 'history, legacy and traditions of the United States Navy.'

U.S. Army Center of Military History

Features information about the Army throughout American history.

Histories of Government Agencies

National Archives History

This page provides a brief history of NARA along with links to a timeline, a list of Archivists of the United States, a history of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC., and Online Resources on the History of the National Archives.

A Brief History: The U.S. Department of Labor

A look at the functions of the Department of Labor since its founding in 1913.

The FBI: History

Links to such topics as Famous Cases & Criminals, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives History, and Hall of Honor.

Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress

Digitized version of the book by John Y. Cole.

NASA History Program

This office was organized shortly after NASA's creation to preserve the history of this agency's accomplishments.

Postal History

Tracks the history of the United States Postal Service from 1775 with links to Stamps and Postcards, Postal People, Photo Galleries, and more.

Supreme Court Historical Society

Founded in 1974, the Society is 'dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States.'

U.S. Census Bureau History

Provides many resources, including an agency history, programs, and an explanation of the '72-Year Rule.'

U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian

This site features Historical Documents, Department History, Key Milestones, and Guide to Countries.

United States Senate: Art & History

Access to such resources as Origins & Development, Exhibits, and Senate Stories.

Selected Specific Topics

The Declaration of Independence

Includes 'The Declaration of Independence: A History,' 'The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence,' the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and links to other web sites.

From Revolution to Reconstruction and Beyond

A site of the Department of Alfa-Informatica at the University of Groningen dedicated to the pre-World War I history of America.

The Star-Spangled Banner

This site from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is an online resource about the 'flag that inspired the National Anthem.'

Meeting of Frontiers

This site focuses on the experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing, and settling their frontiers, and the meeting of those frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The project resulted from a collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Russian State Library, and the National Library of Russia.

First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920

This site features a compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The documents include diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives.

Exploring the Life and History of the 'Buffalo Soldiers'

Published in The Record in March 1998, this article details a history of the United States Colored Troops.

The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia

This project interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War.

Great Chicago Fire

An online exhibition produced by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) to recall one of the most famous events in American history.

Run for Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889

The National Park Service's web site provides lesson plans for teaching about 'the most devastating flood in the nation's history.'

Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers

Part of the Library of Congress' Manuscript Division, this site contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, sketches, and photographs.

The Titanic in Documents and Photographs

An article in the NARA publication The Record in March 1998 highlights the records of the Titanic in the National Archives.

Rescuing Records in the 'Cradle of American Labor'

Information about the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, which collects documents related to the history of labor and working people in New York.

Oral Histories of the Civil Rights Movement

Transcripts and audio of interviews with 'people that participated, in small and large ways.'

The Sixties

A PBS web site dedicated to the most controversial decade of the twentieth century.

The Wars for Viet Nam

This site was developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College.

Apollo 11 Mission

The Lunar and Planetary Institute provides information about the first manned landing on the moon.

Photographs & Audio Recordings

• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville & Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
• Built in America: Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1850-1920
• The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939
• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the Election of 1920

This Day in History

This Day in History

On This Day

Scope Systems Anyday

Digital Documents

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

This digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers is part of the Digital Schomburg Collection at the New York Public Library.

Avalon Project

Yale Law School's Avalon Project includes digital documents from ancient times through the 21st century.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

The Library of Congress 'brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75.'

Documenting the American South

This site is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library provides access to the historical record of civil rights in the United States.

Making of America

A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Nuremberg Trials Project

Harvard Law School Library provides a digital document collection of the Nuremberg Trials.

Our Documents

Digital versions of 100 milestone documents of American history.

U.S. Historical Documents

Transcriptions of major documents relating to American history, from the Magna Carta to President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address.

Virginia Center for Digital History

Based at the University of Virginia, VCDH projects include many online digital history initiatives.

Laboratory Historic District is a national historic district located at Laboratory, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It encompasses seven contributing buildings and two contributing structures associated with the Laboratory Cotton Mill and its founder and owner, Daniel E. Rhyne. They include the Laboratory Cotton Mill (1887), the Laboratory Cotton Mill Reservoir (c. 1887), the Daniel E. Rhyne House (1894), and the Federal / Greek Revival style Hoke-Rhyne House (c. 1844). The mill closed in the late 1990s.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.^[1]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'National Register Information System'. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^Laura A. W. Phillips (November 2002). 'Laboratory Historic District'(pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.

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