This website is the portal for information put out by the North Carolina State Board and the Department of Public Instruction. In addition to the usual information on curriculum, employment and licensing, reports, events, and assessment,...

Online part of a Smithsonian exhibit to honor the 200th anniversary of West Point, the site includes history, interactive maps, historical documents and artifacts.

General Mitchel, born at Morganfield, Union County, Ky., August 28th, 1809, died at Hilton Head, S. C., October 30th, 1862, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1829. Immediately after his graduation he was made...

General Milroy, born in Washington County, Ind., June 11th, 1816, was graduated at Norwich University, Vt., in 1843, and served in the Mexican War as captain in the First Indiana Volunteers. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in...

An American abolitionist, Native American advocate and orator. After graduating from Harvard in 1831, he went on to attend its law school from which he graduated in 1833. In 1834, Phillips was admitted to the state bar, and in the same...

Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003), Sinclair Oil Company paleontologist, at a U.S. Geological Survey meeting, December 1937. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of Michigan, she was first woman employed as a...

Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870-1954), Associate Director, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, had just received the Leslie Dana Gold Medal at the June 1937 Association for Research in 'phthalmology meeting when this...

Caroline Elizabeth Whitney (1899-1928) graduated from Washington University Medical School in 1924 and the following year became the first female intern at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She taught at Washington University Medical School...

Trained as an anatomist, Katherine J. Scott Bishop (1889-1976) graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1915 and, working with Herbert M. Evans, discovered the importance of Vitamin E

Biochemist Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991) developed the skin test for tuberculosis. After graduating from Goucher College, she worked as a chemist during World War I and then went to Yale University, where she earned a Ph.D. and...

Anna Baker Yates Rapport (b. 1891) graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1920. She taught physiology at Bryn Mawr College, 1920-1925, and later worked at St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Duke University

Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969) graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910 and earned a Ph.D. degree from Chicago in 1915. She stayed at the university with an appointment as a research assistant until 1931 because, despite her...

Lillian Josephine Hawes (b. 1905) graduated from Stanford University in 1928 and first served as a public health nurse in Los Angeles. This photograph was distributed when she won a National Tuberculosis Association scholarship award in...

Biochemist Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1890-1975) taught at Washington University Medical School. After attending Mills College (B.S., 1913) and Columbia University (M.A., 1914), she taught home economics at University of Missouri and...

Biochemist Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1892-1975) taught at Washington University Medical School. After attending Mills College (B.S., 1913) and Columbia University (M.A., 1914), she taught home economics at University of Missouri and...

Charlotte Haywood (1897-1970?) graduated from Mount Holyoke College, (B.A., 1919), Brown University (M.A., 1921), and University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1927) and spent her summers during the 1920s doing research in physiology at Woods...

Anatomist and anthropologist Mildred Trotter (1899-1991), graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1920 and received Ph.D. from Washington University in 1924; except for serving as a U.S. Army forensic anthropologist following World War II,...

An expert in occupational health issues, Dr. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) was Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine, Harvard Medical School. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Hamilton did additional research in Germany...

When this photograph was distributed, Anna Chao Pai (b. 1935) was a predoctoral student in the Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, working with Dr. Salome Waelsch on developmental genetics and cross-breeding...

Maud Slye (1879-1954) was a pathologist and noted cancer researcher at the University of Chicago. A descendant of John Alden of the Plymouth Colony, Slye had attended the University of Chicago in 1896 with little money but, as her New...

Mycologist Grace A. Peterson graduated from Cornell University in 1926 and was still on the staff of the Cornell Department of Plant Pathology in 1938

Mlle. Marchal, Graduate of Sciences, Professor of Chemistry at College de France. This photograph was distributed in connection with the fall 1925 joint meeting of American Chemical Society, and International Union of Pure and Applied...

In 1921, the Marine Biological Laboratory's Biological Bulletin listed Ruth Winkley as a clerk in the laboratory supply department; she graduated from University of Michigan in 1925, where she studied invertebrate zoology. This is...

First law school in the United States separate from a college or university, its influential graduates included Aaron Burr, Jr. and John C. Calhoun.