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Somalia ... from the sea
"From January 1991 through March 1995, the United States conducted numerous incursions into Somalia, undertaking a variety of missions and objectives. All of the actions had humanitarian elements, yet the operations that made up this mosaic of American involvement ranged from benign to aggressive, from purely humanitarian to clearly combative. Somalia . . . From the Sea is an account that attempts to explain and analyze these actions and place them within the overarching strategic and operational concepts developing in the first years following the end of the Cold War."--Introduction
Steamtown National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Aerial view of switching/repair shops of former steam-locomotive railroad yard. "*GPO:2010--357-940/80541 Reprint 2007." Title from panel. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Includes text, index of facilities, and col. ill. Text, chronology, and ill. (some col.) on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Historic Coffee Shop Sign near the Lorraine Motel Historic Site, Memphis, Tennessee
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
Surviving Andersonville the benefits of social networks in POW camps
"Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant positive effect on survival probabilities and that the closer the ties between friends as measured by such identifiers as ethnicity, kinship, and the same hometown the bigger the impact of friends on survival probabilities"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Race and older age mortality evidence from Union Army veterans
"This paper uses the records of the Union Army to compare the older age mortality experience of the first black and white cohorts who reached middle and late ages in the twentieth century. Blacks faced a greater risk of death from all causes, especially in large cities, from infectious and parasitic diseases, from genito-urinary disease, and from heart disease, particularly valvular heart disease. Blacks' greater risk of death was the result both of the worse conditions in which they lived at the time of their deaths and of their lifelong poorer nutritional status and higher incidence of infectious disease. Compared to the 1821-40 black cohort, the 1841-50 black cohort was both under greater stress at a young age and had higher older age mortality rates"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
The impact of the civil war on capital intensity and labor productivity in southern manufacturing
"The Civil War resulted in a substantial divergence in the regional structure of factor prices. In particular, wages fell in the South relative to the non-South, but interest rates and other measures of the costs of capital increased. Using archival data for manufacturing establishments, we show that capital-output and capital-labor ratios in southern manufacturing declined relative to non-southern manufacturing after the War, precisely in the direction implied by the regional shifts in factor prices. Labor productivity in Southern manufacturing also declined, but this decline is explained by the reduction in capital intensity"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Shame and ostracism Union Army deserters leave home
"During the Civil War not all men served honorably and this was known by everyone in their communities. We study how shame and ostracism affect behavior by examining whether men who deserted from the Union Army, and who faced no legal sanctions once the war was over, returned home or whether they moved and re-invented themselves. We build a unique panel data set that provides us with a control group for deserters because we can identify men who deserted but then returned to fight with their companies. We find that, compared to non-deserters and returned deserters, deserters were more likely to move both out of state and further distances. This effect was stronger for deserters from pro-war communities. When deserters moved they were more likely to move to anti-war states than non-deserters. Our study provides a rare test of the empirical implications of emotion. While both shame and ostracism would push deserters out of their home community, we find no evidence that deserters faced economic sanctions"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Aerial view of railroad drawn to resemble a block diagram. "*GPO:2004--304-337/00093. Reprint 2004." Relief shown by shading. Title from panel. Includes text, index of cable inclines, view of summit sheds, and col. ill. Text, small map of site, and col. ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Aerial view of cable-railroad route drawn to resemble a block diagram. "*GPO:2013--378-781/30004. Reprint 2004." Relief shown by shading. Title from panel. Includes text, index of cable inclines, view of summit sheds, and color illustrations. Text, small map of site, and color illustrations on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Reviewing the Sudan Peace Act report : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, May 13, 2003
"Serial no. 108-23." Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. Shipping list numbers: 2003-0246-P. Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Aerial view drawn to resemble a block diagram. "*GPO:2001--472-470/40012. Reprint 2001." Relief shown by shading. Panel title. Includes text, index of cable inclines, and ill. (some col.). Text, small map of site, and col. ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Chechnya : implications for Russia, and the Caucasus : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, November 4, 1999
"Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations." Cover title. Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
The war in Chechnya : Russia's conduct, the humanitarian crisis, and United States policy : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, March 1, 2000
Cover title. Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. Shipping list numbers: 2000-0319-P. Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Aerial view drawn to resemble a block diagram. "*GPO: 1998--432-903/60256. Reprint 1998." Relief shown by shading. Panel title. Includes text, index of inclines, and ill. (some col.). Text, small map of site, and col. ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.