North American Forts - American Forts Network
Provides charts with information about all known historic military and pioneer forts in the US and Canada, including links to official websites as well as bibliographies of reference sources cited.
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.
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.
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.
Bioguide Search
Since 1859, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress has been the primary source for biographical information on Members of the United States Congress and Continental Congresses
Biographies - United States Department of State
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Dictionary of Military & Associated Terms
2001/2004 Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. Joint Publication 1-02
Library of Congress Authorities
The Library of Congress Authority file includes subject, name, title and name/title authority records created by or for the Library of Congress.
Thesaurus – Defense Technical Information Center
Defense Technical Information Center
Controlled Vocabularies | Library of Congress
Subject cataloging depends on lists of controlled subject access vocabulary and thesauri. Library of Congress catalog records generally feature subject access points from one or more of the following thesauri and headings lists.
Dictionary
2017 Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
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...