Welcome to the Department of Defense (DoD) Cultural Resources Program Collection.
The DoD maintains thousands of historic and culturally significant resources that form an integral part of mission support and readiness. The Department's cultural resources are the Nation's heritage and DoD holds these assets in trust for all Americans. As stewards of the Nation's largest inventory of federally managed historic properties, DoD strives to maintain, promote, and interpret the cultural resources it manages, both to support the defense mission and to preserve the country's military heritage for future generations. Cultural resources are mission enhancing assets that connect our fighting men and women with their proud history and traditions.
The Federal Preservation Officer for DoD is responsible for cultural resources management and historic preservation policy across the Department. Mr. Richard Kidd is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment & Energy Resilience and is located within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations & Environment.
The DoD historic property portfolio includes 49 individual National Historic Landmarks, 3,171 National Historic Landmark contributing properties, 2,396 individual and contributing historic assets listed in the National Register of Historic Places, over 15,000 historic assets determined eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, and over 132,000 recorded archaeological sites. Military Services and other DoD Components manage these cultural resources at the installation level and work closely with public stakeholders, including American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, Native Hawaiian Organizations, State Historic Preservation Officers, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Sound cultural resources stewardship ensures DoD’s compliance with applicable historic preservation Federal laws, Executive Orders, and regulations in support of the defense mission.
For more information, please visit: https://www.denix.osd.mil/cr/index.html
Site Type Keywords
Archaeological Feature •
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Non-Domestic Structures •
Water-Related •
Shipwreck •
Rock Art •
Submerged Aircraft •
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features •
Domestic Structures •
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Other Keywords
Department of Defense •
Historic Context •
Cultural Resources Management •
National Register of Historic Places •
National Historic Preservation Act •
military installations •
Archaeological Sites •
Historic Buildings •
Underwater Archaeology •
Archaeology
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Prehistoric •
PaleoIndian •
Archaic •
Woodland •
Euroamerican •
Historic Native American •
Hawaiian
Investigation Types
Heritage Management •
Historic Background Research •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Archaeological Overview •
Reconnaissance / Survey •
Architectural Documentation •
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan •
Site Stewardship Monitoring •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Environment Research
Material Types
Metal •
Ceramic •
Wood •
Glass •
Chipped Stone •
Building Materials •
Fauna •
Ground Stone •
Macrobotanical •
Textile
Temporal Keywords
19th Century •
20th Century •
Cold War •
World War II •
Prehistoric •
Civil War •
Early-Mid 20th Century •
18th Century •
Vietnam War •
Historic
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country) •
United States •
Virginia (State / Territory) •
District of Columbia (State / Territory) •
New York (State / Territory) •
South Carolina (State / Territory) •
Delaware (State / Territory) •
North Carolina (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-100 of 139)
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Archaeological Collections Management Procedures (Legacy 06-319) An Archaeological Curation Needs Assessment [Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Virginia, and Maryland] (Legacy 94-0343)
The Architecture of the Department of Defense - A Military Style Guide (Legacy 10-129) Assessing Cultural Resources on U.S. Military Installations through the Application of Criterion B (Legacy 10-347)
The Beartail Rockshelter Legacy Project (Legacy 95-0597) Best Practices: Managing Traditional Resources on Department of Defense Lands (Legacy 08-406) Blueprints for the Citizen Soldier: A National Historic Context Study of United States Army Reserve Centers (Legacy 06-295)
Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are: An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 (Legacy 92-0067)
Conservation of H.L. Hunley and its Associated Artifacts (Legacy 05-106) Constructing a Regional Historical Context for Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Archaeology of the North-Central Mojave Desert (Legacy 07-349)
Cultural Resources Job Descriptions and Position Classification Standards (Legacy 15-713) Cultural Resources Public Outreach and Interpretation Source Book (Legacy 10-127) Cultural Resources Training (Legacy 12-504) Department of Defense and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Curation Options Project, Eastern States (Legacy 97-0376)
DoD Installation Support Facilities Historic Context - Hospitals Section (Legacy 06-296) DoD Sustainability Application Guide for Historic Properties (Legacy 04-220) Energy Efficiency Alternatives for Historic Buildings in Extreme Cold Weather Climates (Legacy 13-703)
Galley Congress Inspection Report (Legacy 01-162) The Garden Canyon Project: Studies at Two Rockshelters at Fort Huachuca, Southeastern Arizona (Legacy Demonstration Project #21)
H.L. Hunley Site Assessment (Legacy 97-106) Historic Context for Evaluating Mid-Century Modern Military Buildings - Report (Legacy 11-448) Historic Context for Historic Period Archaeological Sites on Virginia's Coastal Plain (Legacy 05-262)
A Historic Context Statement for a World War II Era Black Officers' Club at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri (Legacy 93-0945)
Historic Preservation Plan for the Kahuku Training Area, O'ahu, Hawai'i (Legacy 93-0539) Historical and Architectural Overview of Aircraft Hangars of the Reserve and National Guard Installations from World War I Through the Cold War (Legacy 09-431)
Map Production for the Paleoindian Archaeology and Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Shorelines on DoD Installations Project (Legacy 05-260)
National Historic Context for Hush Houses and Test Cells on DoD Installations (Legacy 07-342) National Historic Landmarks Data Reconciliation (Legacy 07-375) Nationwide Context and Evaluation Methodology for Farmstead and Ranch Historic Sites and Historic Archaeological Sites on DoD Property (Legacy 17-837)
Patriotic Legacy: The Navajo Code Talkers and the Use of Native American Languages in Defense of America (Legacy 94-0311)
Procurement Guidelines for the Reuse of Historic Building Materials (Legacy 06-316) A Programmatic Approach to Determine Eligibility of Prehistoric Sites in the San Diego Subregion, Southern Coast Archeological Region, California, for the National Register of Historic Places (Legacy 05-251)