Primary Source: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: National Response Team’s Report to the President, 1989 Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the 987-foot tank vessel Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. What followed was the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The oil slick has spread over 3,000 square miles… MORE
Patrick N Allitt
Primary Source Document: Mr. Shufelt’s letter to his cousin in New York, about his journey to the California “diggings” and his attempts to find gold (1850) We hired an ox team to carry our baggage & started for this place then called Hangtown, from the fact that three persons had been hung here for… MORE