A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War is a collaboration between the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the University of Texas at Arlington's library. This war remains "the largest and most significant armed struggle between two nations in the Western Hemisphere." One of the major missions of this project is to "digitiz[e] primary source materials drawn from the UT-Arlington...

While millions of people visit Yellowstone National Park each year, very few of them will actually pay detailed attention to the various concessions offered around the area, unless of course they are unable to purchase various sundries or crucial items. In this wholly engaging 153-page work, author Mary Shivers Culpin (writing for the National Park Service's Yellowstone Center for Resources),...

Water frequently has a profound impact on how a city develops. This peer-reviewed virtual exhibition published by the Environment & Society Portal (featured in the 11-03-2017 Scout Report) explores the role that water played in the struggles experienced by Bogota, Colombia's capital, on its path to becoming a modern city. This exhibition features visuals such as historical photographs and maps,...

From the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art comes this online exhibit dedicated to the 1938 journey of Wilber L. Cummings, Jr. (1914-1943) and F. Bailey Vanderhoef, Jr., who traveled from Kalimpong, India to western Tibet. As UCSB religious studies scholar Jose Ignacio Cabezon explains in the introduction to this exhibit, the pair hoped to "document the...

For 64 years, one of the world's largest rubber plantations was operated in Liberia by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. In 1926, just after Firestone had gained permission for their plantation, the company sent a team of Harvard scientists and medical doctors on a four-month survey of the West African country's interior. A Liberian Journey is a public history resource intended to "inform,...

"My generation is a part of the history of Denmark and of the Philippines, but not quite our history is the history of migration." This quote from Wesley Valdez, featured on the homepage of A Philippine History of Denmark, encapsulates what the resource is about: an invitation to step into the shoes of the "Filipino Pioneers" who migrated to Denmark during the 20th century. This collection "traces...

From Oregon State University comes A Short History of the Seed and Nursery Catalogue in Europe and the U.S., an extensive online collection of agricultural catalogues from 1832 to 1966. The collection was assembled by agricultural librarian Laura Kelts during the 1960s and 1970s and, more recently, digitized by Alice Krinsky Formiga of OSU's Department of Horticulture. On this website, visitors...

Based on the research of Richard S. Dunn, the Tale of Two Plantations website provides a glimpse into the lives of about 2,000 slaves at Mesopotamia plantation, a sugar estate in western Jamaica, and Mount Airy plantation in tidewater Virginia. The site covers two overlapping time periods, 1762 to 1833 at Mesopotamia, and 1808 to 1865 at Mount Airy. One significant point of contrast between the...

Setting out on the Caribbean today on a large vessel might involve boarding a massive cruise ship in Fort Lauderdale or Nassau in the Bahamas. Things were a bit different when Aaron Thomas set off on those same waters back in 1798. Thomas served on the HMS Lapwing during the French Revolutionary wars and his journal contains first-hand accounts of naval operations, customs of the day, and humorous...

Let’s face it: economia to those great heroes of the past are nothing new, and some might believe that there are too many out there in the first place. The Academy of Achievement website disproves this idea with its well-thought out tributes to those truly unique individuals who have made substantive contributions in the arts, the sciences, and a number of other areas of human endeavor. As its...