Historic Background Research (Investigation Type)

These are investigations of the past using written records and other documents. Evidence from the records are compared, judged for veracity, placed in chronological or topical sequence, and interpreted in light of preceding, contemporary, and subsequent events.

6,801-6,825 (6,892 Records)

The West of the Imagination (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Goetzmann.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

West Side Lumber Company Historical Archaeological Investigations and Evaluation Project, Stanislaus National Forest, Tuolumne County, California, Volumes I and II. (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only T. Vaughn.

West Sude Eligibility and Preliminary Case Report, Stanislaus National Forest, Sonora National Register of Historic Places (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only P. Conners.

Western River Transportation: the Era of Early Internal Development, 1810-1860 (1975)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik F. Haites. James Mak.

Westover 2000 (2000)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Westover Air Reserve Base.

The Westover 2000 Plan is a presentation of Westover Air Reserve Base development and facility improvements. It refines and updates the Base Comprehensive Plan. The plan outlines Westover's long and proud heritage and provides a strategy for the future.It integrates the long-range planning goals of the Air Force Reserve and provides a matrix for decision making in preparing for the next century. This plan assisted in the Base Realignment and Closure reviews to consolidate under one cover the...

Westover Air Reserve Base Cultural Resources Survey (2017)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Office of Public Archaeology at Boston University.

Based on the results of the data review, four recorded prehistoric sites and one reported historical site were identified within or adjacent to the Westover Air Reserve Base and 34 World War II era buildings and 4 Cold War era buildings (one of which is also a World War II era building) were identified as being potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. One of the Cold War era buildings (Building 1900, the Air Force Special Projects Facility) has been previously...

Westover Air Reserve Base, Area Development Plan for the Historic Core (2017)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

The purpose of the Westover Air Reserve Base ARB Historic Core Area Development Plan is to thoughtfully reestablish the symbolic historic core as the center of activity and identity for the base. In doing so, land use patterns will be organized for future development, while both functionality and visual character within this area will also be improved. In essence, the plan aims to instill a “ sense of place” in the historic heart of Westover ARB. This resource also includes an updated...

Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts § 106 Determination of Eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places (2011)

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Ferguson.

This report documents the evaluation of significance and integrity and the determination of National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility for resources (i.e. buildings, structures, and landscape features over 50 years of age) at Westover Air Reserve Base (ARB) in Massachusetts per the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Evaluation and 36 CFR Part 63. This report is submitted to the Massachusetts State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) in compliance with §106 of...

Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts: Assessment of Westover ARB Archival Collection (2011)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rachel Kline.

This report is a survey and assessment of the curation of the Westover Air Reserve Base (Westover ARB) archival collection and provides recommendations and alternatives for the repository of the collection. Currently, the Westover ARB archival collection is housed at The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. (PAL) in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Westover ARB is interested in evaluating the curation standards of the current repository and their consistency with federally owned and administered curation...

Wet Screening (2010)

IMAGE Stephanie Barrante. Victoria Hawley. Jessica Hughes.

Images illustrating the use of an on-site wet screening operation to maximize artifact recovery at the site of Fort St. Joseph, 2006-2010.

What a Preacher Saw Through a Keyhole in Arkansas (1925)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Louis S. Dunaway.

What Happened at the Wake (1942)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald Wihelm.

A historical account of the attack on Wake Island from the American Legion Magazine.

What Remains: Building Removal, Worker Retraining, and Toxic Materials in Detroit (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2017)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Caverly.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines how the destruction of built environments reconfigures economic and environmental inequalities in the postindustrial United States. It does so by investigating the demolition of vacant buildings in Detroit. Estimated to number between 70,000 and 100,000, vacant buildings index decades of racially motivated population decline and deindustrialization. Such structures are...

When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten (2014)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Angela McArdle.

This paper examines an obsidian cache offering excavated near the corner of a Postclassic Maya platform structure in Nojpeten, on the island of Flores, Guatemala. The cache consists of approximately 190 obsidian prismatic blade cores and core fragments, but the original number of cores placed in the cache likely fell between 173 and 182, with a best estimate of 177, 178, or 180. The cores were found about 20 cm southwest of the structure in a circular concentration measuring approximately 35 cm...

Where To Go in the Ozarks: "a Thousand and One Places To Go" (1930)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keith McCanse.

Where were the Women?: Women and Historic Places in New Castle County, DE (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Brizzolara Wojcik.

White County, Arkansas Population Schedules of the United States Census of 1850

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mrs. Leister E. Presley.

The White Man's Friend (1974)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lloyd Allison.

Under the premise of "Give us our water and we will take care of ourselves," the book includes two chapters surrounding the irrigation practices of the Pima-Maricopa Indians from the mid-19th century to the present. The first chapter discusses the early irrigation practices of the Pima-Maricopa Indians and their history within the Gila and Salt River valleys supplemented with information from excavation and government documentation. Using this information, the second chapter lists a series of...

The White River of the Ozarks: from saber-tooth tigers to fighting rainbows (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Fleming.

Whitehead-Kunzel-Bowers House (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Flanigan.

Whitehouse Station Railroad Siding. Enivironmental Analysis. (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bthann Mock.

Whitewater - East Sp 0501-037 Historic Resource Survey Report (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Norgren.

Whom We Would Never More See: History and archaeology recover the lives and deaths of African American Civil War soldiers on Folly Island, South Carolina (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven D. Smith.

Four days before the Christmas of 1863, Private William Herbert of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry died of typhoid and was buried on Folly Island, South Carolina, 1,070 miles from his snow-covered home in Nova Scotia. This is the story of his final year of life as a soldier, his rediscovery by archaeologists, and his eventual reburial with at least seventeen fellow soldiers in Beaufort National Cemetery.

The whys and wherefores of Littabelle Lee (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vera. Cleaver. Bill Cleaver.

Wild Animal Park Future Construntion Program (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence Monserrate.