"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana, 1906

General History and Resources

Critiques Of Libertarianism
Source Watch
PR Watch
FindLaw
Evaluating Internet information
Internet Modern History Sourcebook Main Page
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Making of America (Univ. of Michigan)
Making of America (Cornell Univ.)
Cornell Library Digital Collections
Digital History
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
The Historical New York Times Project
Utah Digital Newspapers
Missouri Historical Newspapers Project
General Resources on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
H-SHGAPE Discussion Network
19th Century America Links
The Gilded Age Links
Progressive Articles
MOA - The Foolish Fear of Paternalism, 1895
MOA - Liberty Through Legislation, 1899
Henry Demarest Lloyd The Lords of Industry, June 1884
Measured Century Review
Product Safety Regulation   (PDF)
Nozick is a Libertarian (Duh!)
Chicago Magazine - The People's Welfare
Calendar Live - The Past Is Prologue

FDA

1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
Death in the Pot: Victorian Food Adulteration, Food Analysis and Analytical Chemistry; An Annotated Bibliography
"There is death in the pot" food safety work by Fredrick Accum 1820
MOA - Food Adulterations - WE Mason
MOA - The Question of Food Adulteration 1880
MOA - The Question of Food Adulteration 1890
MOA - Hoskins's Adulterations of Food and Drink
MOA - The Adulterations of Food 1862
MOA - Adulteration of Milk - Scientific American p152
MOA - Milk 1870 (info on adulteration p. 326)
Bibliography on Pure Food and Drug/Meat Inspection
Food Product Design Perspectives - The FDA - An Organizational Look
FDA Consumer The Story Of The Laws Behind The Labels
FDA Consumer The Long Struggle For The 1906 Law
FDA Backgrounder Milestones in U.S. Food and Drug Law History
Resources on the History of the Food and Drug Administration
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs - The Dangers of Consumption
Wylie: The History of a Crime Against the Food Law
Wylie: The History of a Crime...(alternate link)
History of Food Law   (PDF)
History of Food Laws and Regulations
Food and Drug Legislation - The Story Behind the Law
Food and Drug Law Journal 50th Anniv Issue
The Great American Fraud Overview
Who Shall Meet the Foe If Not She? Good Housekeeping on the 1906 Act
Crisis and the Emergence of Economic Regulation: The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938   (PDF)
EH.net: History of Food and Drug Regulation in the United States
FDA Turns 100
The Palette of Our Palates: A brief history of food coloring and its regulation
Industry invites regulation: the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906   (PDF)
1906 Meat Inspection Act
Teddy Roosevelt and the Pure Foods Law
Sinclair: The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism
Meat Inspection Bill Passes the Senate
MOA - Second Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health 1871
MOA - Bovine Tuberculosis 1887
History of Military Food Service
Safety Last: The Politics of E. Coli and Other Food Borne Killers   (PDF)
Knowledge, Epistemology, and Chemistry in the American Meat Industry   (PDF)
The Tuberculous Cattle Trust: Disease Contagion in an Era of Regulatory Uncertainty  (PDF)
Also see: New York Times from May 28, 1906 through July 2, 1906
"FDA drug regulations kill more people than they save!"
Self-Medication FDA Regs Harvard Law
Experimental Treatments Unapproved but Not Always Unavailable
The Price Isn't Right (the cost of drug development)
Consumer Project on Technology: Costs of Research and Development
"Safety Caps are Killing our Children!!"
National Poison Prevention Week March 16-22, 2003
Poisoning Interventions Child-Resistant Packaging and the Posion Prevention Packaging Act
CDC WISQARS system - generates fatality statistics (re: safety caps/poisoning)
Product Safety Regulation, Alessandra Arcuri, LL M   (PDF)
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
CPSC Urges Observance Of National Poison Prevention Week March 1975
CPSC Reminds Public Of Exemption To Child-Resistant Packaging Regulations August 25, 1976
CPSC Urges Public Participation During National Poison Prevention Week March 16, 1977
Agencies Observe National Poison Prevention Week March 18, 1979
Posion Prevention Week Planned To Warn Parents Of Household Poisons March 12, 1980
National Poison Prevention Week Reminds Consumers To Protect Young Children From Poisons March 13,1981
National Poison Prevention Week March 21, 1983

Education

Federal Role in Education
The Rise of the Adult Education and Literacy System in the United States: 1600-2000   (PDF)
Literacy among New England's transient poor, 1750-1800. Journal of Social History, Summer 1996 by Ruth Wallis Herndon
National Center for Education Statistics - Literacy from 1870 to 1979: Overview
School Vouchers: Settled Questions, Continuing Disputes   (PDF)
Comment on Caroline M. Hoxby: School choice and school competition   (PDF)
Center on Education Policy
MOA - Education in South Carolina (1822)
MOA - Connecticut School Fund (1823)
MOA - Free Schools of New England (1824)
MOA - Politics and Statistics - New Jersey (1831)
MOA - Popular Education (1833)
MOA - Massachusetts Common Schools (1837)
MOA - Public Instruction in Michigan (1838)
MOA - Common School Education (1838)
MOA - Massachusetts Common School System (1841)
MOA - System of Common Schools (1844)
MOA - Common Schools in Rhode Island (1848)
MOA - Educational Facilities - United States and Britain (1849)
MOA - The High School Policy of Massachusetts (1858)
MOA - Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky (1861)
MOA - The daily Public School in the United States (1866)
MOA - Fraser's Report on the Common-School System (1868)
MOA - "What sort of Schools ought the State to keep?" (1868)
MOA - Our Educational Outlook (1872)
MOA - Educational Progress (1875)
MOA - Education in America, 1776 - 1876 (1876)
MOA - The Public-School Failure (1880)
MOA - The Success of the Free-School System (1881)
MOA - The National Government and Education (1884)
MOA - The Progress of Texas (1885)
MOA - National Aid to Education (1885)
MOA - The Progress of Arkansas (1886)
MOA - The Progress of Minnesota (1887)
MOA - Education at the South (1887)
MOA - The South and the School Problem (1889)
MOA - Early School Legislation of Massachusetts (1893)
MOA - Recent Progress in the Public Schools (1895)
MOA - Our Public Schools - A Reply (1899)

Public Libraries

NCU definition of special libraries - (re: "private" libraries)
"What is a special library?" - (re: "private" libraries)
Number of Libraries in the US
Public Libraries, Statistical trends, 1990-2003
Statistics About Libraries
IFLA - Libraries in the US   (PDF)
12 Ways Libraries Are Good for the Country
DIVIDENDS: The value of public libraries in Canada
MOA - The Public Library Movement in the United States (1894)
MOA - Public Libraries in the United States (1877)
MOA - A Model Village Library (1890)
MOA - A General Free Library Movement (1893)
MOA - The Free-Library Movement (1882)
MOA - Are Public Libraries Public Blessings? (1889) - [On the "wickedness" of public libraries. ;-)]
MOA - The Public Libraries of the United States (1877)
MOA - A Free Lending Library for New York (1880)
MOA - Public Libraries (1850)
MOA - The Relation of Free Public Libraries to the Community (1898)
MOA - The Future of local Libraries (1893)
MOA - The Free-Library Movement (1882)

Auto Safety

Motor Vehicle Admins History
Auto Industry Safety Obstruction - Public Citizen (PDF)
Occupant Restraint - History
AutoWorld.Com - Automotive changes throughout the years
Automotive Safety Milestones
Government assault forcing the automakers to think safety and fight smog
Injuries: Causes, Control Strategies and Public Policy; Chapter 8 - Economics of Injury Control
Chapter 9 - Values, Politics, and the Future of Injury Control
A Half Century of Attempts to Re-solve Vehicle Occupant Safety   (PDF)
Safetyforum.com - Rear Seat Lap Belts
Swedespeed.com - The Volvo Enthusiast's Website
Public Citizen - Key Advanced Air Bag Legislative History
Carmakers profit from delay
Public Citizen Congress Watch - Examples of Defective Products
Nat'l Academies Press, Effectiveness of CAFE Standards
Characteristics Of Traffic Flow And Safety In 55 And 65 Mph Speed   (PDF)



Updated 7/3/2009
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