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Jackie Robinson was very sad when his mentor, Branch Rickey, let the Dodgers organization. During the 1950 spring-training season, he wrote a letter ...
This is the second page of Jackie Robinson's 1950 letter to Branch Rickey, following Rickey's departure from the Dodgers' organization. Robinson wrot...
When violence against African-Americans escalated during the 1960s, Jackie Robinson worried that harm would come to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After...
This image depicts the last page of a three-page telegram which Jackie Robinson sent to President Kennedy during June of 1963. He was urging pro...
This image depicts the signature page of a letter dated September 25, 1888. Purportedly from the person who'd murdered victims in the Whitechap...
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, disagreed with the Naval Court of Inquiry's opinion. He issued his own assessment in two differing forma...
This is an excerpt from Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland - James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches - by Lawrence Normand and Gareth Rob...
Bookcover image of Hesitant Martyr of the Texas Revolution: James Walker Fannin, by Gary Brown.
A short biography of James Watt, the Scottish inventor whose brilliance in improving the steam engine helped to change the world.
How was it that Japan selected Pearl Harbor as the attack target? What types of resources did Japan assign to the mission?The U.S. Navy's Histor...
This image depicts part of the "Kill All" policy - an intercepted message which caused Allied military officials grave concerns about the well-being o...
Soon after the Pearl Harbor attacks, official inquiries began. How could this have happened? Was America so completely unprepared for a Ja...
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