Historical Images

Alfred Hitchcock
Portrait of Alfred Hitchcock
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
Beale Street, Memphis, TN
Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee
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

Articles

The Conversion of Harry Truman (November 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 7)
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)
Would JFK Have Pulled Us Out of Vietnam? (September 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Fabulous Memphis (October 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
A Day When Hope Died (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Born in ’64 (October 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Alsop Ascendant (February/March 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Special Forces (November/December 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 6)
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)
Bob, Dick, and Harry (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
How to Remember the Forgotten War (May/June 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 3)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Snagging a Ted Williams Line Drive (December 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Battle of Athens (February/March 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
25 Years Ago (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The International Purity Congress and Other Endeavors (December 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Little Diplomat (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Dr. Strangelove’s Children (November 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 7)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Defending America's Role in the Korean War (November/December 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Why Did Ruby Kill Oswald? (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Eisenhower Tells Beijing to Take Care of Itself (March 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Sporting Life of Roger Khan (October 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Country (November 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 7)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Stellar Books on America from the Truman to Nixon Eras (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
What Happened to Organized Labor? (July/August 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
JFK Writes about Our Nation’s Memory (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Lost Tracks (November/December 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 6)
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)
America’s True Power (March 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
“Freedom is in My Soul” (September 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Officially Propagating America’s Story (August/September 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Reds in Albania Tried to Recruit Me at Age 8 (May/June 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 3)
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)

Historical Documents

Proclamation 3447
Proclamation 3447
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)
Loving v. Virginia 1967
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Joseph Jackson
Annual Address by Joseph Jackson
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Hitchcock Scene
YouTube Video of Dream Sequence from Spellbound
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
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)
Picture of OAS's fifty-second Assembly in Lima, Peru
Organization of American States (OAS) Charter
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Transcript of Letter from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Dr. Egleston Regarding his Polio Attack, 10/24/1924
Transcript of Letter from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Dr. Egleston Regarding his Polio Attack, 10/24/1924
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
A mother and daughter sit outside the Supreme Court
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Patsy Murr, first grader at Fulton School in Lancaster, Pa., gets her Salk shot from Dr. Norman E. Snyder as she is held by Mrs. Walter Sourweine, April 25, 1955. Others view the proceedings with mixed emotions
The Dangers of the Antivaccine Movement- Excerpt
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Shabana Maani, gives a polio vaccination to a child in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 29, 2021 (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the UN says
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan (Spiritual Plan of Aztlan)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Cuban Missile Crisis
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
DoD News Briefing on Pentagon Attack 6:42 p.m. EDT
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Collections

Memphis, Place of Good Abode
The Place of Good Abode, by Shelby Foote
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
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)