Browse Items (14 total)

YMCA, YWCA Timeline 1858-2013, Library of Congress, 1917

Established in 1858 as a voice for women's issues, The YWCA opened the first employment bureau for women several years later. That was only the…

Tags: Anti-Racism, Civil Rights, Timelines, VAWA, Women, Women's Suffrage, YWCA

United States Senate, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy - Timeline of Public Service, United States Senate, 2009

"His energetic adherence to perseverance, his plain dogged determination, his ability to rise from the ashes…always with grace, and usually with a…

Tags: Civil Rights, Edward M. Kennedy, Health Care, Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Timelines, US Senator

U.S. Government, History of the United States Secret Service, U.S. Government, 2002

The above is linked to the documented history of the United States Secret Service from its creation in 1865, in Washington D.C., to 2008.

Tags: National Defense, Security, Timelines, US Secret Service

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI a Centennial History: 1908 - 2008, FBI, No date

In 2008 the United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) celebrated its 100th anniversary as a crime fighting and…

Tags: Cryptography, FBI, Intelligence, Security, Surveillance, Timelines, US

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S Customs and Border Protection - Border Patrol History from 1924, Department of Homeland Security, None

The priority mission of the Border Patrol is preventing terrorists and terrorists weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, from entering the…

Tags: Border Patrol, Borders, CBP, Immigration, Timelines, US

Samuel Johnson Woolfe, Theodore Roosevelt - 26th United States President - Timeline, U.S. Library of Congress & American Museum of Natural History, 1919

"There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. Just as we must conserve our men, women and children, so we must conserve…

Tags: Conservation, Governor, New York, NY, Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Timelines

National Weather Service, History of the National Weather Service 1849-2013, NOAA, Circa 1900 - Box Kite

The timeline linked here documents the advancement of the National Weather Service between 1849 - 2013

Tags: Box Kite, Hurricanes, National Weather Service, NOAA, Timelines, Weather

National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation Celebrating 50 Years 1950-2000, National Science Foundation, No date

The U.S. national Science Foundation promotes the progress of science to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare and to secure the…

Tags: National Defense, National Science Foundation, Nifty50, Science, US

National Park Service, Fire History Timeline 1804-2004 National Park Service, National Park Service, No date given

Since the establishment of Yellowstone National Park as the world’s first national park in 1872, the desire to suppress, control, and manage fire has…

Tags: Conservation, Department of the Interior, Fire, Fire History, National Park Service, Parks, Yellowstone

National Law Enforcement Museum, Women in Law Enforcement - Timeline: 1854-2011, National Law Enforcement Museum, Circa 1900

In 1854, the first known police matrons (also called jail matrons) were hired by New York City to search and guard female prisoners, but they were…

Tags: Jail Matrons, Law Enforcement, Police Matron, Women