Reference Resources

Reference Resources

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Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) | U.S. Geological Survey
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) | U.S. Geological Survey
Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the USGS provides science for a changing world, which reflects and responds to society’s continuously evolving needs. As the science arm of the Department of the Interior, the USGS brings an array of earth, water, biological, and mapping data and expertise to bear in support of decision-making on environmental, resource, and public safety issues.
·usgs.gov·
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) | U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Board on Geographic Names | U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Board on Geographic Names | U.S. Geological Survey
Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the USGS provides science for a changing world, which reflects and responds to society’s continuously evolving needs. As the science arm of the Department of the Interior, the USGS brings an array of earth, water, biological, and mapping data and expertise to bear in support of decision-making on environmental, resource, and public safety issues.
·usgs.gov·
U.S. Board on Geographic Names | U.S. Geological Survey
Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission - People - Department History - Office of the Historian
Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission - People - Department History - Office of the Historian

This database includes officers of the Department who were Presidential appointees (appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate) and chiefs of bureaus who hold rank equivalent to Assistant Secretary of State. These include: Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, Under Secretaries, Deputy Under Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries, Counselors, Legal Advisers, Chiefs of Protocol, and certain administrators.

Other positions have, from time to time, been included in the database based on their particular circumstances. The complete lists of heads of the United States Information Agency (USIA), for example, are included. USIA was incorporated into the Department in 1999. Other Chiefs of Mission of particular historical interest have also been included.

·history.state.gov·
Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission - People - Department History - Office of the Historian
Bibliography - World Digital Library
Bibliography - World Digital Library
This category includes a total of 5 items (as of Nov.2021) such as Ibn al-Nadim's Kitab al-fihrist (The catalog); the Manuscript Catalogue of Thomas Jefferson's Library; and the 1867 Bibliographie annamite (Annamite bibliography) - bibliography of books, periodical articles, manuscripts, and maps from or about Vietnam, going back to the arrival of the first French priest in the country in the 17th century...
·wdl.org·
Bibliography - World Digital Library