Professor and author Noam Chomsky discusses the current "War on Terrorism" in the context of earlier perceptions of terrorism and national threat, including the Cold War and World War II.
The link provides direct access to the video, as no visual webpage exists as a gateway.
The Buffalo Fire Historical Society promotes fire safety and maintains a museum, which exhibits records and artifacts of the Buffalo fire service.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Victor Historical Society operates the Valentown Museum. The museum contains harness shop, grocery store, meeting room, and cobbler's shop period settings and military, textile, farming, household, railroad, trolley, blacksmithing, and other exhibits. Collection highlights include a wagon used in the Revolutionary War.
The society offers exhibits, archive access, craft demonstrations, and summer camps. Demonstrations occur May through early September. Appointments are required for archive access.
The Centre Hill Museum is a historic house museum. The 1823 residence is used to discuss its own history, including Presidential visits and its role in the Civil War. The interior houses decorative arts dating from 1700 through the 1900s. Collection highlights include a circa 1900 aviary of stuffed birds. The structure displays Greek Revival, Federal, and Colonial Revival elements.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Nevada State Museum presents Nevada history. Exhibit topics include the Carson City mint, geology, Native American life, and Columbian mammoths.
Collection highlights include a 19th-century coin press, mammoth fossils, slot machines by designer Charles August Fey, the USS Nevada silver service, and a 1902 Basque sheepherder's wagon. The museum includes the Marjorie Russell Clothing and Textile Research Center, which preserves more than 10,000 artifacts.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, 90-minute guided hands-on student tours, and unguided student tours. Areas of emphasis available for student tours are geology, Native American culture, Nevada history, and botany and zoology. Appointments are required for all tours. The textile research center offers programs on costume history, as well as research library access. Appointments are required for library access. The website offers 14 virtual exhibits.
The Kings Mountain Fire Department Historical Fire Museum is dedicated to preserving the history of the King's Mountain Fire Department, as well as the history of early firefighting. The museum was first built in 1976, and today houses an impressive collection of firefighting equipment and memorabilia, including two fire trucks and an early hand-drawn fire pump.
The museum offers self-guided tours. The website offers visitor information.
The Jamestown Fire Department Memorial Museum presents firefighting history via a collection of historic equipment. Collection highlights include a horse-drawn 1894 LaFrance Steam Fire Engine and an 1859 Jeffers Hand Pumper.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Delaware Visitor Center and Galleries is located in Dover, Delaware, and provides information on local and statewide attractions, events, and activities. The galleries in the visitor center provide changing exhibits on various aspects of Delaware history and culture. In addition, the visitor center provides group tours of the galleries.
The website offers basic visitor information.
The Big Horn County Historical Society and Museum seeks to preserve and protect the history of Big Horn County, MT. To this end, the society operates a museum. The museum includes 23 historic structures on 22-acres of land, previously used as a vegetable farm. The farmhouse and barn are original to the location, while the remaining 21 structures have been transported to the site from within Big Horn County. Three buildings house exhibits, which include horse-drawn vehicles, tractors, early automobiles, and farm machinery.
The society offers exhibits, self-guided tours, and guided tours.
The Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum presents the history of New Jersey's Lake Hopatcong. Topics include the Lenape, Morris Canal, Bertrand Island Amusement Park, and the lake's prime resort years between the 1880s and 1930s.
The museum offers exhibits and lectures.