A map from 1872 of the country east of the Mississippi for the year 1650, forty-seven years after the settlement of Jamestown. This map shows early commencement of European settlement and the principal Native American tribal lands east...

A map from 1903 of the southern portion of New York City showing streets, rivers, parks, railroads, elevated railroads, Broadway cable road, and horse cars. Some features indicated on the map are Madison Square Garden, Bellevue Hospital,...

View from Rockefeller Center towards Lower Manhattan (New York)

United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory; site of the Manhattan Project.

Circular sandstone fort in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City.

The B-Reactor at Hanford Site, Washington, was the first large scale plutonium production reactor ever built. The project was commissioned under the Manhattan Project, during World War II, to develop the first nuclear weapons.

From the New York Times online, see a slideshow of engraving's by the sixteenth century German mannerist printmaker, Albrecht Durer, which are featured in "Art in Transition", an exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan. All...

A photograph of State Street in Chicago and George Bellows' painting of Lower Manhattan, both depicting the vigorous, gritty, energetic urban life in the early-twentieth century.

Short overview of Fermi's life, including major accomplishments and dates. Good, quick place to start.

Details the life of Robert J. Oppenheimer and his views on the atomic bomb.

Details the life of Robert J. Oppenheimer and his views on the atomic bomb.

Read background information about Harry Truman and the development of the atomic bomb prior to his presidency. Includes excerpts from official documents and conversations during the Truman Administration.

Nathan Hale