America's Great Outdoors

Be sure to add America's Great Outdoors to your daily must read list. This blog from the Department of Interior showcases photos taken from our great outdoors.

Documents of the Month: Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is the topic for the display this month.

• USS Arizona Memorial
• The Attack on Pearl Harbor: World War II Commemorative Bibliography 
• Infamous Day: Marines at Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941
• Pearl Harbor: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Chronicle
• 7 December 1941: The Air Force Story
• The "Magic" Background of Pearl Harbor
• Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 Overview and Special Image Selection
• National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
• Navy Commemorates 70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

Documents of the Month: Veterans Day 2011

Veterans Day is November 11, 2011 and is the topic for our display this month.

• Veterans, 2000 
• Veteran Resource Center
• Helping our veterans succeed : general SBA information
• Veterans
• Veterans Day 2011: Nov. 11
• VA Million Veteran Program: a partnership with veterans
• Veterans History Project : project instruction kit
• Veterans History Project : preserving stories of service for future generations
• The Library of Congress Veterans History Project : field kit : conducting and preserving interviews 
• Veterans affairs issues
•  Quality initiatives undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration
• Potential costs of veterans' health care
• Korean War Veterans Memorial
• Department of Veterans Affairs : accompanying report of the National Performance Review 
• Serve, support, simplify : report of the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors : subcommittee reports & survey findings
• Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses : special report
• Veterans in prison or jail 
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Small business assistance for veterans

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is now the 395th National Park. Curious about how the memorial was created? Read Building the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial from Smithsonian.com. 

Display of the Month: Earth Day

We're going to take the whole month of April to celebrate Earth Day 2011.

• the happy earth day activities book
• Case of the Broken Loop
• Follow That Trail
• Recycling ...for the future: It's everybody's business
• Don't Throw Away That Food
• Resources on Waste for Your Home and Community
• The Clean Air Act of 1990: A primer on consensus-building
• The Clean Water State Revolving Fund: Financing America's environmental infrastructure - a report of progress
• Clean Water Action Plan: Restoring and protecting America's waters
• A "Green" Building Tour
• Islands of Green in a Sea of People
• Collecting Used Oil for Recycling/Reuse: Tips for consumers who change their own motor oil and oil filters
• Housing: A home for recycled materials
• Promoting Cleaner Technologies and Tools for Environmental Protection
• Reformulated Gasoline and Your Motor Boat
• The Road From Global Warming to a Cleaner Future
• Our Land, Our Legacy: The resource conservation and recovery act
• Let's Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
• Earth Day Everyday
• Greening the Government
• Earth Science Fun Pad: Packed with things to do!

Documents of the Month: Women's History

Join us in celebrating Women's History Month by visiting our display.

• National Women's History Museum Act of 2009
• National Women's History Museum Act of 2003
• The Women's Army Corps 1945-1978
• Workers and Allies: female participation in the American trade union movement, 1824-1976
• Women in Congress 1917-1990
• Women in Congress 1917-2000
• Women's Rights
• Women's Rights National History Trail Feasibility Study
• Milestones: the women's bureau celebrates 65 years of women's labor history
• Breaking Codes Breaking Barriers: the WACs of the signal security agency world war II
• Free a Marine to Fight: women marines in world war II
• Women in the Army Policy Review
• Equal Pay: a thirty-five year perspective
• Facts on Working Women
• Benefits to Employers Who Hire Women Veterans
• Women with Work Disabilities
• Women Who Maintain Families
• 20 Facts on Women Workers
• Young Women and Employment: what we know and need to know about the school-to-work transition
• Women's History is Everywhere: 10 ideas for celebrating in communities
• United States Women in Aviation 1940-1985
• American Women Today & Tomorrow
• International Interdependence
• United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990
• The Women's Army Corps: a commemoration of world war II service
• March is Women's History Month (Random Samplings)
• Women in Development (USAID)
• Women in America: indicators of social and economic well-being (White House)

Documents of the Week: U.S. Department of the Interior

This week, we are happy to showcase a selection of documents from the Department of the Interior:

• Water, Ice, and Meteorological Measurements at South Cascade Glacier, Washington, Balance Year 2002
• Education in the United States of American, Bulletin 1939, Misc. No. 3
• Carl Sandburg Home
• Blue Ridge Parkway: Virginia Trails
• Benton Lake
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
• Death Valley National Monument
• Baton Rouge, Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf Coast Ecological Inventory
• Reclamation era
• Earthquakes & Volcanoes, 1988
  
• Answers to your questions about American Indians
• Standing Witness: Devils Tower National Monument: a History
• Frederick Douglass
• More Readings from One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1880
• My Forefathers are still Walking with Me: Verbal Essays on Qizhjeh and Tsaynen Dena'ina Traditions
• The Duck Stamp Collection
• Clara Barton National Historic Site: Historic Structure Report
• National Parks Webcams (Glacier National Park, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park & more!)
• Interior Recovery
• Sport Fishes