America - still a young country by world standards - began as an experiment in self-government. This collection includes stories of America's people as they follow a path of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The day after Jackie Robinson wrote a letter of concern to Truman Gibson - civilian assistant to the Secretary of War - two officers had a conversatio...
In addition to shipments by sea, bootleggers sent and received shipments by rail. A typical operation in Cleveland would list bogus products and compa...
This is page 2 of the May 12, 1932 report detailing the investigation into illegal transport of alcoholic beverages from Cleveland to Tacoma. Click o...
Whoever wrote this draft press release can barely contain his glee at the prospect of indictments coming down against high-ranking officials. Th...
When the FBI arrested a group of men believed to be involved with the murders of Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, the Mississippi St...
Bookcover image of Jackie Robinson comic book. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, July 1951. Vol. 1, no. 5. From, By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson...
This document - from the U.S. National Archives - is part of the court-martial file against Lt. Jack Robinson. This is the same Jackie Robinson ...
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...
For the first time since Reconstruction (of the South, following America's Civil War), Congress was considering legislation granting African-Americans...
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 second page of a three-page telegram which Jackie Robinson sent to President Kennedy on the 15th of June, 1963. In it, Ro...
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