Published in February 2019 by the National Academies Press, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty is a consensus study report compiled at the request of the US Congress with the goals of "conduct[ing] a comprehensive study of child poverty in the United States [and] identify[ing] evidence-based programs and policies for reducing the number of children living in poverty by half within 10 years." The...

Savile Row Artisan http://thesavilerowartisan.com/ SavileRowBespoke http://www.savilerowbespoke.com/Home/index.php Tailor Made For History http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/autumn05/tailor.cfm The Tailor's Manual or Twenty Years A New England Tailor (By One Of The Craft) http://books.google.com/books?id=V63yrs3whqoC&dq=tailors&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=tailors&f=false Victorian...

This website accompanies an exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) George Gustav Heye Center in New York City, and presents "the epic story of the horse's influence on American Indian tribes from the 1600s to the present." Divided into five thematic sections, the exhibition draws on the riches of NMAI, using both historical objects, such as drawings, hoof ornaments, beaded...

During the months of November and December 2005, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution brought together a group of experts on Iraq to engage in a critical discussion about US policy. Upon the completion of their work, the Center’s Director, Kenneth M. Pollack, created this intelligent and thoughtful paper that details an alternative approach to the current US...

The World Bank frequently produces reports on the development challenges faced by different regions of the world, and one of its more recent reports offers a critical appraisal of the situation in the Caribbean. The report itself is 303 pages, and for visitors who are pressed for time, an executive summary is provided on the site. In brief, the report suggest that the region needs to "move beyond...

From Brussels to New York, World's Fairs have provided inspiration and offered visions of the future to all those who visited. This particular World's Fair-themed digital collection draws on the World's Fair Collection at University of Maryland's Architecture Library. The collection features items from a number of the Fairs, including those held in Paris, Buffalo, Chicago, and San Francisco. After...

The famous Walking Tour series on WNET, New York's public television station went to Newark, New Jersey, for the first tour outside of New York. Visitors who missed the show, or prefer a more interactive experience, will definitely enjoy the walking tour via the website. The two hosts of the tour, historian Barry Lewis, and former morning show host David Hartman, give visitors a multimedia tour...

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace created this initiative as a way to offer the public access to pieces written in China by Chinese scholars and experts. The hope is that these works will provide "the international community better insight into and understanding of the debates taking place in China on important foreign policy issues." Visitors to the site can look at four main...

In 1929, the National Woman's Party set up headquarters in the Sewall-Belmont House on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Their leader, Alice Paul, was a tireless advocate for woman's rights, well known for drafting the first Equal Rights Amendment in 1921. This lesson plan from the National Park Service explores this historic home and Paul's work through primary documents, maps, images, and...

Born in 1828 in Nunda, New York, Andrew J. Russell worked as a portrait and landscape painter as a young man. In 1862, he organized a local militia unit for service in the Civil War and he learned the craft of photography along the way. Several years later in 1868, he began a project to document the construction of the Union Pacific railroad during its long march to its meeting point with the...