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.

151-175 (6,883 Records)

American Archaeology Past and Future: a Celebration of the Society for American Archaeology, 1935-1985 (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David J. Meltzer. Don D. Fowler. Jeremy A. Sabloff.

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American Fur Trade of the Far West. 3 Vols (1902)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hiram M. Chittenden.

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The American Indian and the problem of history (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Calvin. Martin.

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American Indian Holocaust and Survival: a Population History Since 1492 (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Thornton.

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American Indian Policy in the Formative Years: the Indian Trade and Intercourse Acts, 1790-1834 (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Francis P. Prucha.

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The American Indian: perspectives for the study of social change (1967)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick Russell Eggan.

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 Section 110 Compliance Report for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District NHPA, Cultural Resources Investigations Technical Report No. 33, Volume 2 National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District Antilles Office, 400 Fernandez Junco Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Beth Reed. J. W. Joseph. Hernan Bustello.

John Milner Associates, Inc. (JMA) was contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), St. Louis District, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), enacted by Congress in 2009, to conduct a Section 110 National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) evaluation of the Antilles Office (AO) compound located at 400 Fernandez Junco Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico. New South Associates (New South) completed the survey under the direction of JMA. The survey was conducted under...


American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 Section 110 Compliance Report for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District NHPA, Cultural Resources Investigations Technical Report No. 19, Volume 3 Section 110 Survey of 2,063 acres at West Point Lake, Troup and Heard Counties, and 676 acres at Carters and Lanier Lakes, Hall, Gilmer and Lumpkin Counties, Georgia (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven Rabby Smith. James Page. Glenn Strickland.

Between 8 March 2010 and 9 July 2010, Brockington and Associates (Brockington) conducted intensive cultural resources survey of a total of 7,559 acres within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District. These survey tracts include 1,193 acres at two different reservoirs in East Alabama, 676 acres at two different resevoirs in north Georgia, and 3,627 acres at a wildlife mitigation area in northeast Mississippi. This technical report is divided into three volumes. The current volume...


American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 Section 110 Compliance Report for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, NHPA, Cultural Resources Investigations, Technical Report No. 19, Volume 2: Section 110 Survey of 943 Acres at West Point Lake, Chambers County, and 250 acres at Walter F. George Reservoir, Russell County, Alabama (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven Rabby Smith. James Page. Glenn Strickland.

Section 110 Survey of 943 acres at West Point Lake, Chambers County, and 250 acres at Walter F. George Reservoir, Russell County, Alabama Between 8 March 2010 and 9 July 2010, Brockington and Associates (Brockington) conducted intensive cultural resources survey of a total of 7,559 acres within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District. These survey tracts include 1,193 acres at two different reservoirs in east Alabama, 676 acres at two different reservoirs in north Georgia, 2,063...


American Samoa (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Arnold H. Leibowitz.

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American Samoa at War, 1940-1945 (1940)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Burke.

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American Samoa in World War II - Preliminary Draft Report (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack C. Hudson. Kay G. Hudson.

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American Samoa, a General Report by the Governor
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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American Samoa, Goverment of (Record Group 284)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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American Samoa: a Descriptive and Historical Profile (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William R. Tansill.

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American Samoa: From Coaling Station to World War II Outpost (1841)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Colt Denfeld.

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American Slave: a Composite Autobiography Vol. 8-11: Arkansas Narratives (1972)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George P. Rawick.

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Amerind Pleistocene Lake I, The Archaeology of the Willcox Playa (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Anne I. Woosley. D. Carol Kriebel.

Our 1985 survey of the Willcox Playa environs resulted in a wealth of Archeological data, the findings of which are presented in the following chapters. We have added to the Archaic database from the Cazador through San Pedro stages of the Cochise sequence, and suggest a tentative Archaic settlement system integrated with local habitats and accompanying resources. Though it is a partial picture, the ceramic period settlement system is also beginning to emerge. Our knowledge of the early ceramic...


Analysis And Evaluation of the Six Archaeological Sites Within The Bower Cave Land Exchange, Stanislaus National Forest, Tuolumne County, California. (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Heipel.

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Analysis of an Obsidian Biface Reportedly Found in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Boulanger. Thomas R. Jamison. Craig Skinner. Michael D. Glascock.

An obsidian biface reportedly found in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, is the only currently locatable obsidian artifact purported to have been found in Northern New England. As such, it may be evidence for prehistoric long-distance exchange, a product of modern- or historic period trade among artifact collectors, or it may be a modern replica. Four criteria are outlined to assess the artifact’s authenticity as a product of prehistoric trade: provenience, cultural affiliation, age, and...


Analysis of Historic Ceramics From the Central Salt River Valley of Northeast Missouri (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresita Majewski. Michael J. O'Brien.

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Analyzing Activity Areas (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Kent.

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The Ancenstral Saltwater Geechee Lands on Sapelo Island, Georgia (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text [NFM] Various.

The History of African American Culture on Sapelo Island Correspondence and News articles


Ancient Uqshoyak Recent Investigations at Tin City Long Range Radar Site, Alaska (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Teresa Brown. Margie Goatley. Roger Harrnitt.

The objectives of the mitigation were to identify, record, and collect prehistoric and historic cultural materials from intact deposits present in the site. One of the results of the 2000 Phase I archaeology field investigation, was the discovery of the remains of a potential prehistoric house structure. The goal of the oral history research was to begin documentation of the interactions of the Wales Inupiat community with the Tin City area, taking into account the various activities that have...


Ancient Vermont (1977)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds. Anne Ross.

The authors of this paper were invited to attend a conference on 'Ancient Vermont' held at Castleton in Vermont in October 1977,and to examine and comment upon the 'evidence' for the extensive occupation of New England by Celts and others in the first or second millennium BC as propounded by Professor L. B. Fell of Harvard University. The 'evidence' consists broadly of supposed 'Ogam' and 'proto-Ogam' inscriptions on rocks and stones and megalithic stone structures, some of the structures...