Collections

Emigrants crossing the plains, by F.O.C. Darley
How the Wilderness Was Won, by Stewart L. Udall
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras
Jonas Salk, Inventor of Polio Vaccine
The Miracle Workers, by David Oshinsky
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
A scene from the Vietnam War
My Lai, Thirty Years After, by Rachel Louise Snyder
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Articles

Of Human Rights… And Wrongs (October 1977 | Volume: 28, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
A Lyrical Brush (July/August 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
RFK Discover Folks Surviving on Peanut Butter (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
50 Years Ago, the Polio Vaccine Was Introduced (April/May 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Fairfield Porter, A Heretic in the Abstract Expressionist Era (September 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The First Serious Basketball League (May/June 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 3)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Ordeal of Engine Charlie (February/March 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Catherine Leroy Parachutes into Danger (Fall 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 7)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Picturing Alaska (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Detonation of the First Hydrogen Bomb (November/December 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
How a Two-dollar Watch Saved the World (December 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Hitchcock on Location (April/May 2007 | Volume: 58, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Love, Jackie (September 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Our Malcolm (February/March 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Day We Shot Down the U-2 (September 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
How to Enjoy Christmas Without George Bailey (December 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Why We Can't Count on the U.N. (August/September 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
JFK's Fighter-Bombers (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Why We Were Right to Like Ike (December 1985 | Volume: 37, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
NATO’s Nativity (October 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Problem with Glorifying World War II-Era America (August/September 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Help From on High (May/June 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 3)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
What Was a Woman Doing There? (Fall 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 7)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
1954 (December 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Leaving for Korea (February/March 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Jazz and America (December 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Dubin at Work (December 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Sage of Black Rock (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Prepping JFK for the German Part of "Ich bin Ein Berliner" (July/August 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Unregretfully, Alger Hiss (November 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 7)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Business of Boxing (October 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Changes in the Family from Balzac to Brown (August/September 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Historical Images

March on Washington
March On Washington
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Sun Record Studios
Sun Record Studios
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Historical Documents

Beale Street, Memphis, TN
Birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll? Memphis has plenty of evidence in its favor
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference in February 1945
The Yalta Conference
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Original document of Voting Rights Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment
Voting Rights Act 1965
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Outbreak of Nuclear War Between the United States and the Soviet Union (1971)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Cuban Missile Crisis
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Original document of the enrolled acts and resolutions of Congress pertaining to the Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act 1964
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Truman Doctrine
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Proclamation 3447
Proclamation 3447
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Resolve Relative to the Indictment, Trial, Conviction, and Execution of Ann Pudeator and Certain Other Person For “Witchcraft” in the Year Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-Two
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Redlining Map, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1935
Redlining (1937-)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Cesar Chavez holding a NFWA sign
National Farm Workers Association
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Decision delivered by Chief Justice Earl Warren
Hernandez v. Texas
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Truman's Order De-Segregating the Military
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)