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.

6,476-6,500 (6,892 Records)

Take To the Hills; a Chronicle of the Ozarks.. (1941)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marguerite Lyon.

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Tales and Legends of the Ozarks (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Allen.

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...Tales from the French Folk-Lore of Missouri (1937)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph M. Carriere.

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Tall Tales of Arkansaw (1943)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James R. Masterson.

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The Tanque Verde High School Archaeological Project: Excavations at a Hohokam Limited Activity Site in the Northeastern Tucson Basin (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

Archaeological testing and data recovery at AZ B:9:360 (ASM), a Hohokam limited activity site in the northeastern Tucson Basin, resulted in the discovery of two roasting pits, an associated activity surface, and two large trash-filled pits. Botanical data suggest that the site was used for processing locally procured upper bajada wild plant resources as well as domesticated crops (maize). Chronometric data indicate a likely span of site use from the Rillito phase of the Colonial period to the...


Taos Adobes: Spanish Colonial and Territorial Architecture of the Taos Valley (1964)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bainbridge Bunting.

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Target '96: Using the Past to Navigate the Future; An Assessment of Hist. Pres. Needs in the Rep. of the Marshall Islands and a Comprehensive Plan of Action for 1992-1996. Part 2: Assessment of Historic Preservation Needs (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dirk H. R. Spennemann.

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Task Product 4 - Subtask 4B: Historic Preservation Treatments, Cultural Resources Management Plan (CRMP), Bellows Air Force Station, Oahu, Hawaii. (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Hurlbett.

This description of Historic Preservation Treatments for the Cultural Resources Management Plan (CRMP) for Bellows Air Force Station (AFS), Waimanalo District, Island of Oahu, Hawaii, has been prepared for the U.S. Air Force, PACAF Contracting Center, 15th Air Base Wing/LGCV, Hickam AFB (Project: HIC 85-9117, Contract No. F6460586C0005), as required by the Performance Work Statement. The project is authorized by a Programmatic Memorandum of Agreement (PMOA), effective July 1, 1985, pursuant to...


Task Product 5: Recommendations for National Historic Site (BFAA) Boundary Update, Draft (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Jensen.

This document reviews relevant data from prior cultural resource work including the results of work and examines the rational for the establishment of the existing Bellows Field Archaeological Area (BFAA). Recommendations for boundary revisions are then formulated on the basis of this review, of the review of estimates of the research potentials of adjacent portions of the BFAA, in compliance with recent changes in the administrative procedures evaluating historic properties.


Technical Memorandum No. 18, Cultural Resources Investigation, Garden State Parkway Widening, Interchanges 30-80, Ocean, Burlington, and Atlantic Counties, New Jersey (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stacey E. Spies. Jennifer B. Leynes. Glenn R. Modica. Paul J. McEachen.

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Technical Report Legacy of Pancho Barnes Oral History Program (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Terreo.

The ranch Florence Lowe Barnes (Pancho Barnes) owned and operated (which is now part of Edwards Air Force Base [AFB]) was a focal point for entertainment, social activity, and comradery. Many prominent individuals involved with historic flight test programs and projects went there for relaxation. In 1954, Pancho's home was destroyed by a fire that resulted in the annihilation of a large portion of her personal archives and artifacts. Consequently, one option to preserve crucial historical and...


Technical Report Santa Maria Aggregate Cultural Resources Investigations Prehistory, Ethnohistory and History (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dames & Moore, Inc..

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Technical Report, Historic Resources Reconnaissance Survey Information is Support of: 2005 Hanscom Field Environmental Status & Planning Report. Bedford, Concord, Lexington, and Lincoln, Massachusetts (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Virginia H. Adams. Jenny Fields. Alyssa Wood.

PAL, on behalf of Rizzo Associates (Rizzo), is assisting the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) with the preparation of the Hanscom Field 2005 Environmental Status and Planning Report (ESPR) as an update of the Elanscom Field 2000 ESPR. L.G. Hanscom Field (Hanscom Field) is Massachusetts’s premier general aviation airport and serves as a general aviation reliever to Logan International Airport with niche commercial service. The Hanscom Field area is located in the towns of Bedford, Concord,...


Technical Report, Intensive (Locational) Archaeological Survey, Family Camp at Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Massachusetts (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William Begley. Duncan Ritchie.

In June 1999, PAL completed an intensive (locational) archaeological survey of the FAMCAMP project area, which is located adjacent to Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts. The U.S. Air Force is proposing improvements to the Family Camp, a 25-acre parcel located north of the main base property and runways. Background research indicated that known prehistoric sites are located in the vicinity of the project area near Elm Brook and an area south of Hanscom AFB along a watershed between...


Technical Report, Inventory of Historic and Archaeological Resources, Fourth Cliff Recreational Annex, Scituate, Massachusetts (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann Davin. Virginia H. Adams. Craig Chartier. Amy McFeeters.

The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. conducted an inventory of historic and archaeological resources at the U.S. Department of the Air Force Fourth Cliff Recreational Annex. Fourth Cliff is a 56-acre military property situated at the northern tip of the Humarock Peninsula in Scituate, Massachusetts. The firm of Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Inc. is overseeing all of the environmental, archaeological, and architectural studies in preparation for future planning activities. A comprehensive...


Technical Report: Legacy Private Collections Project (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jane E. Kamplain.

This technical report presents the results of a Department of Defense Legacy Program project to inventory, analyze, and recover private collections related to Edwards Air Force Base. The project had four general purposes: 1) to recover valuable information and materials from private collections, 2) to develop methods and techniques to effectively identify and gain information from private collections, 3) to assess the usefulness of private collections in addressing cultural resource management...


Tell Baker to strike them hard: incident on the Marias, 23 Jan. 1870 (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert J. Ege. Eugene M. Baker.

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Tennessee Colony III (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Richner.

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Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, and Northern Part of Flordia (1873)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Bartholomew.

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Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes, Arkansas (1880)
DOCUMENT Citation Only United States Census Office.

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Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Mortality, Arkansas (1880)
DOCUMENT Citation Only United States Census Office.

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Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Productions of Agriculture, Arkansas (1880)
DOCUMENT Citation Only United States Census Office.

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Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Products of Industry, Arkansas (1880)
DOCUMENT Citation Only United States Census Office.

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Teotihuacan Valley Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Susan Evans

The Teotihuacan Valley Project was designed to map pre-Hispanic and Colonial period occupations of the Teotihuacan Valley, the northeastern arm of the Basin of Mexico. Initiated in the 1960s by William T. Sanders, the project eventually produced five volumes of reports and many ancillary works, covering the ecology of the valley and the settlement patterns of its successive time periods.


"The Terrible Calamity on the Lower Potomac" - An Historical and Archaeological Assessment of the Shipwreck U.S.S. Tulip (18ST644), Potomac River, St. Mary's County, Maryland (1998)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce F. Thompson.

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