Exploring the History, Science, and Consequences of the Atomic Bomb. A Visit to the Atomic Testing Museum The museum, a partnership between the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation and the Desert Research Institute, is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and is located just east of the Las Vegas strip. The goal of the museum is to preserve and foster public accessibility to the history associated with the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and the Nation's nuclear weapons testing program. To learn more, click here. Cold War: A Brief History For more than forty years, the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union directly threatened each other with nuclear weapons.
This period of time is referred to as The Cold War. National Register of Historic Places Official Website--Part of the National Park Service. Ellis Island - FREE Port of New York Passenger Records Search. Abandoned Missile Base VR Tour. This presentation will take you on a full tour of a decommissioned, abandoned underground missile complex. The site was opened many years ago by explorers and vandals, and in fact the technology therein was nearly obsolete by the time the bases were completed in 1963, so there's little "secret" about it beyond the location of these sites, which we will not reveal here.
That said, let's visit the site. Send your comments/feedback to kkelm@triggur.org. "Can I Scrub Your White Marble Steps?"A Black Migrant Recalls Life in Philadelphia. In the 1910s hundreds of thousands of African Americans headed North in the Great Migration. Arthur Dingle was one of them. Dingle was born in the small town of Manning, North Carolina, in 1891. After holding hotel jobs in several cities, he took a job with the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia.
Promised his job back if he enlisted in World War I, the company made good on its promise when Dingle remained in Philadelphia after the war. This interview with Arthur Dingle was conducted by Charles Hardy in 1983 for the Goin’ North Project. Listen to Audio: Arthur Dingle: I came out of school pretty early, and I worked for the stores around town there, and then I worked in the little hotel.
In 1913, when Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration, another friend of mine and I left Norfolk and went to Washington, and I got a job in the New Raleigh Hotel there, and I was a waiter there during Wilson’s first inauguration. And I went to school in Scranton, the International Business School. AAME : The Great Migration: A Story in Paintings by Jacob Lawrence Through a series of paintings in The Great Migration, Jacob Lawrence illustrates the mass exodus of African Americans who moved to the North in search for a better life.
Lawrence's parents were among those who migrated between 1916-1919 during what was considered the first wave of the migration. History Matters Keyword Great Migration: a search listing of abstracts providing links to and information about the Great Migration, including critical text, transcription, audio, and images. Women and Labor Series of studies on African-American women, labor, and the black community's economic status during and after the Great Migration. The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords Jim Crow Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport. We Choose the Moon: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing.
The Great Migration. We Choose the Moon: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing.