Government Documents and Resources: Government Resources

Education

• The impact of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 on American Colleges and universities: technical report.
• Preparing young children for school: educator's practice guide.
• Myths and facts surrounding assistive technology devices and services: This document is designed to increase understanding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act’s (IDEA’s) assistive technology (AT) requirements, dispel common misconceptions regarding AT, and provide examples of the use of AT devices and services for children with disabilities and to highlight the different requirements under Part C and Part B of IDEA.

American History

• The Roosevelts and African American civil rights leaders: When, on the eve of World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the first presidential library on the property of his home in Hyde Park, New York, he hoped future generations would travel there to research and write about the extraordinary times through which he and his generation were passing. Those times included the Great Depression, the New Deal, and, eventually, a second ghastly global conflict in the twentieth century that would redefine the balance of power in the world. The era also included the seeds of the modern civil rights movement, a movement influenced in direct and indirect ways by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s lives before, during, and after their unprecedented twelve years in the White House.
• Historic resource study of African American schools in the South, 1865-1900: examines the development of Black post-emancipation schools in the American South and identifies ten case studies that are representative of the types of historic buildings and sites the National Park Service (NPS) will encounter in and around their management areas. In this report, the American South includes all states where
  slavery remained legal prior to 1861, except for Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas. 
• Black lives and whitened stories: from the Lowcountry to the mountains.
• Andersonville National Historic Site, Andersonville, GA historic resource study: Andersonville National Historic Site protects, honors, and interprets Civil War-era events and activities associated with the use of the site as a Confederate prison from 1863 through 1865, the subsequent development of the Andersonville National Cemetery, and several eras of protection and commemoration leading to park establishment in 1970.
• The African American Experience at Fort Jefferson, 1847-1876:The National Park Service (NPS) is developing a Historic Resource Study (HRS) for Dry Tortugas National Park in Monroe County, Florida that will present the developmental history of its most prominent feature,
  Fort Jefferson, highlighting its important context as a military site and its role within the nation’s Third System of coastal defense constructed in the early 1800s. This study, a partial HRS, contributes to that effort focusing solely on the African American experience at Fort Jefferson between 1847 and 1876. African Americans played a significant role in the fort’s history as slaves, freedmen, soldiers, and prisoners, and this
  study addresses their contribution directly through primary and secondary research.
• Meridian Hill Park, African American experiences since the Civil War: a special resource study.
• Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park historic resource study: This Historic Resource Study (HRS) records the cultural history of Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, a unit of the National Park Service located in central Georgia (Figure 1.1). Ocmulgee
  Mounds National Historical Park protects, honors, and interprets the archeological and historical features associated with human occupation of this site, which dates to 10,000 BCE.
• Historic resource study: Reconstruction and the early Civil Rights movement in the National Capital Area.
• 'The stars fought from heaven': race and slavery in the Shenandoah Valley from early settlement to Jim Crow.
• Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, Tuskegee, AL, historic resource study: Tuskegee University today is a private, historically
  black university (HBCU) located in Tuskegee, Alabama. Founded in 1881, through the vision and promotional work of its first principal, Booker T. Washington, the school became a symbol of post-Reconstruction African American economic uplift during the forty years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century.

Health

• Differences in cesarean delivery rates:  Puerto Rican mothers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland, 2023.

• Electronic cigarette use among adults: in the United States, 2019-2023.

• National One Health: framework to address zoonotic diseases and advance public health preparedness in the United States, 2025-2029.

• Menstrual Hygiene: product affordability and accessibility for U.S. individuals: a report to the House Committee on Appropriations.

• Report to congress: polycystic ovary syndrome: a report to the House Committee on Appropriations.

• Parent's under pressure: the U.S. Surgeon General's advisory on mental health & well-being of parents.

• Children's exposure to elemental mercury: a national review of exposure events.

• Health effects of cannabis and cannabinoids and barriers to research: report to Congress pursuant to requirements of the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act.

Emergency Management

• Recommendations for cordoning earthquake-damaged buildings: The aim of this report is to present recommendations for determining the cordon area for individual damaged buildings. Considerations for managing the cordon area are also included.
• Hurricane Ian in Florida: building performance observations, recommendations, and technical guidance.
• Guidance for accelerated building reoccupancy programs:This Guide presents best practices, and discussion of key issues, to inform a target audience comprising those who may wish to implement an Accelerated Building Reoccupancy (ABR) program.
• Guidance and recommendations for seismic evaluation and retrofit of multi-unit wood-frame buildings with weak first stories.
• National Incident Management System Guideline for Mutual Aid: Mutual aid agreements establish the terms under which one party sends resources—personnel, teams, facilities, equipment and/or supplies—to another party.
• U.S. Fire Administrator's Summit on Fire Prevention and Control: Workgroup Report, October 2022-August 2023.
• The Secret Service's preparation for, and response to, the events of January 6, 2021: final report.
• Creating a community wildfire protection plan: This is not an all-inclusive document but a guide to assist you in creating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP). Remember, the more agency representatives and resident leaders you include in helping you create the
  document, the better the plan you will have.