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.

1,001-1,025 (6,904 Records)

Backwoodsmen, Daring Men of the Ozarks; a True History of Backwoodsmen of the Ozarks, Including the Life of Nathaniel (Stub) Borders (1940)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George C. Arthur.

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Bacon Island Road Bridge Number 1510 (State Bridge No. 29c-1080) Replacement at Middle Bridge-F of "Adverse Effect" (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Werner.

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Bailey's Dam (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven D. Smith. George J. III Castille.

Major General Nathaniel P Banks, Union commander of the Red River military expedition, found himself in a particularly tight situation in April of 1864. He had been defeated at the Battle of Mansfield while attempting to capture Shreveport, Louisiana, and now he was retreating down the Red River, harassed by Confederate troops at every turn. Throughout the campaign, the river's low water level had been a constant problem to his naval support of gunboats under the command of Rear Admiral David D....


Baker Massacre (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dave Walter.

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Bald Knobbers (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucile Upton.

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Baldwin Vignettes (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gulf Telephone.

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Bamboo Brook Historic Landscape Preservation & Maintenance Plan (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimball Erdman. Peter Vitererro. Lori Tolliver. Patricia O'Donnell.

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Bancroft Mills 50 / 50A (2001)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Buck Simpers Architect & Associates, Inc..

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Bankers and Cattlemen (1966)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gene M. Gressley.

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Baptismal Record of the Parishes Along the Arkansas River, August 5, 1796 To July 16, 1802 (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dave Wallis. Frank Williamson.

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Bare Mountain and Other Sketches (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethyl Edwards.

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Barns, Sheds and Outbuildings (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Byron D. Halsted.

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Bartlett Dam, Arizona: National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim Bailey.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) constructed Bartlett Dam on the Verde River from 1936 to 1939. The structure consists of the dam, the attached small valve/river outlet house, and the gated spillway. An auxiliary spillway built in the mid-1990s is non-contributing to the dam structure. Due to erratic stream flows, Bartlett Dam does not produce hydropower. Bartlett Dam exhibits statewide significance under Criteria A and C in the areas of Politics/Government, Engineering, and Community...


Base Facilities Report Dated September 1, 1943 (1943)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Commander Service Squadron South Pacific Forces.

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Bases in the South Pacific (1947)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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Battle Cry of Freedom; the New England Emigrant Aid Company in the Kansas Crusade (1954)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel A. Johnson.

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Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, Benton County (1862)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles S. Squires.

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The Battle of Platte Bridge (1963)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. W. Vaughn.

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Battle of Wilson's Creek (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Edwin C. Bearss.

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"The Battle Raged... with Terrible Fury": Battlefield Archeology of Pea Ridge National Military Park (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Carl G. Carlson-Drexler. Douglas D. Scott. Harold Roeker.

Pea Ridge National Military Park is located in northwest Arkansas about 40 miles north-northwest of Fayetteville. The battlefield, located in Benton County, includes the 4,300-acre site of the battle. Pea Ridge National Military Park was created by act of Congress on July 20, 1956. The Civil War battle is the primary interpretative emphasis of the park. However, several prehistoric sites have been documented within the park boundaries as well. Human occupation of northwestern Arkansas began...


Bay Springs Mill: Historical Archaeology of a Rural Mississippi Cotton Milling Community (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Adams. Steven D. Smith. David F. Barton. Timothy B. Riordan. Stephen Poyser.

This report details an investigation of a 19th century mill community through a combination of archaeological, historical, and oral historical research.


Bayonne Extension - Hudson River Waterfront Light Rail Transit - Bayonne Cultural Resource Survey (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Uploaded by: system user

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Beached Shipwreck Archeology: Case Studies from Channel Islands National Park (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew A. Russell.

Between 1993 and 1999, the National Park Service's Submerged Resources Center worked with Channel Islands National Park to investigate three historical shipwreck sites on San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands likely to be the Pacific Coast lumber schooners J. M. Colman, Dora Bluhm and Comet. This publication presents results of those investigations and demonstrates the feasibility and historical and scientific value of rigorous study of scattered, beached shipwreck sites. which have often been...


Beaulieu House and the Story of Old Crow Wing. Reports of Investigation Number 28 (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. A. Birk.

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Beaver Island/Iles du Castor (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward J. Wahla.

Thirty-five miles northeast of Charlevoix in Lake Michigan lies a pleasant archipelago, "The Beavers". They were considered an outlying part of old Michillimackinac by the early French and seem to have been a haven for canoe Indians of the past who have left their mark in the form of low mounds and numerous stone-age relics scattered about the islands to be plowed up by farmers or gardeners. Irish today, a Mormon colony yesterday, a Chippewa garden in the past and a refuge for stone-age people...