What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).
FDR did not use "infamy" in his first-draft as this original shows.
This is the obituary of Lena Basilone. It tells us that she never remarried, after the Iwo Jima death of her husband, John Basilone. Lena ...
Page from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, The African"). One day the kidnapped boy, and other captive Africans, ...
John Randolph (1773-1833), from Virginia, opposed admitting Missouri as a "free" state not because he approved of slavery but because he disapproved o...
Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet was one of Colonial America's most-influential newspapers. Its lead story - on July 8, 1776 - was the announcement ...
Image of a photograph, from NOAA, depicting a diver using mixed gases at a decompression stop.
During World War I, Britain's Ministry of Food enforced the country's ration orders. Penalties were stiff. On 29 August 1918, for example, a vi...
This image depicts page 1 of a September 14, 1942 letter - from Philip Johnston to the U.S. Marine Corps Commandant - requesting permission to jo...
This image depicts page 2 of the letter Philip Johnston sent to the U.S. Marine Corps Commandant on September 14, 1942. The Navajo Code...
Lt. General DeWitt's recommendation, to evacuate Japanese-Americans from their homes in the Pacific-coast region, page 2. Click on the image for a be...
When African-American soldiers returned home, after fighting in World War I, they faced serious discrimination in the States. They had fought, and die...
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