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Military Demarcation Line and the Northern and Southern Borders of Demilitarized Zone, Korea

These maps show the boundaries of the Demilitarized Zone following the Armistice Agreement at the end of the Korean War.

The middle line (labelled…

A model of the Soviet N-1 rocket, designed for a moon landing mission, ca. 1970.

The Soviets intended to use this rocket and capsule to send humans to the moon. The program lacked funding and, after four failed attempts, the…

A 1957 American political cartoon titled “Another Race We Can Lose.”

This political cartoon from a St. Louis newspaper sums up America’s despair over the successful Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit…

1st Marine Division at Chosin Reservoir, 1950

Exhausted Leathernecks of the 1st Marine Division stop for a brief rest during the bitter fighting at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea in December 1950.

A Korean Youth Learns a Baseball Lesson, 1951

The original caption for this photograph reads: A Korean youth, Kim Pak Soon, is taught one of the fundamental lessons of baseball: "Get your glove…

Apollo 11 Mission image - Astronaut Edwin Aldrin walks near the Lunar Module

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.,Lunar Module (LM) pilot, walks near the module as a picture is taken of him. Discoloration is visible on his boots and…

A 1962 news clip of the hydrogen-powered American Centaur missile exploding after take-off

Following Yuri Gagarin’s successful orbit in 1961 and President John F. Kennedy’s ambitious plans for investment in space exploration, the American…

Danny Dare, ex-communist

First witness was Ex-Communist Danny Dare, 48, Hollywood producer, director and writer, who gave a dramatic recital of how Communist propaganda is…

Miss Florence Fowler Lyons on Communist infiltration

Miss Florence Fowler Lyons displays UNESCO publications and criticizes UNESCO as preaching internationalism and outright atheism in a speech before a…

An excerpt from a speech by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. about President Eisenhower’s “Open Skies” proposal to the United Nations, 1962.

Senator Lodge describes the proposed Open Skies program, which was intended to de-escalate the Cold War and provide more transparency for…