Roanoke Island

The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

"The Anacreontic Song" was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London, and later became the tune to which the Star Spangled Banner lyrics were set to

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In 1912, as Pickens tells it, our country was facing an energy crisis. We were considering crude oil, whale blubber, and coal as possible ways to power our future. We needed something that was cheap, and we didn't care where we bought it. Our society chose crude oil, and to this day oil remains at the center of American energy consumption. The problem, of course, is that crude oil is no longer cheap.
TED: T. Boone Pickens

The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE) is custodian of the Alan Lomax Archive, a priceless collection of recorded music, dance, and the spoken word. Our mission is to facilitate cultural equity. We preserve, publish, repatriate and freely disseminate our collections. ACE practices “cultural feedback” by disseminating thousands of recordings, photos and videos through educational partners, free online resources and partners, and publishing partners; by repatriating artists’ rights and royalties to their estates and families; and, with the full participation of local institutional partners, by repatriating recordings, film, photos, with our comprehensive notes and data, to those communities.

"Those of us who grew up in the sixties, when we put men on the Moon, now have to watch as every Republican candidate for this year's presidential election denies the science behind climate change and evolution. That is a staggering state of affairs and it is very worrying,"

a Coast Guard icebreaker and a Russian fuel tanker headed to Nome, Alaska

lots & lots & lots of snow (Alaska)

The United States of Awesome

In 2009, crime went down. In fact it's been going down for a decade. But more and more Americans believe it's getting worse. Why do we refuse to believe the good news?

Why can't Americans make things? Two words: business school.

run away! run away!

creepy

A History of Home Values

Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008

Electoral Maps Through the Ages

STATISTICAL ATLAS OF THE NINTH CENSUS (1870)

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Jerald C. Brauer
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