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WWII advertisement for women working in hospitals.

The construction of the atomic bomb, Little Boy, weighing 9,700 pounds and 10 feet in length.

Overhead aerial view of nuclear powered attack submarine USS Sargo (SSN-583) underway,

Speech by Soviet leader Khrushchev in December 1962 covering the causes and consequences of the Cuban Crisis. (Catalogue ref: FO 371/171934)

John F. Kennedy meets with Nikita Khrushchev

To make their voices heard on the important social issues of their day, women organized themselves and used petitions to influence Congress.

In 1844, sixty-five Philadelphia women signed and presented this petition to Congress, urging the…

Susan B. Anthony devoted more than fifty years of her life to the cause of woman suffrage. After casting her ballot in the 1872 Presidential election in her hometown of Rochester, New York, she was arrested, indicted, tried, and convicted for voting…

Barbara Jordan, first African American woman elected to Congress from Texas, is remembered for her commitment to the U.S. Constitution. Her speech in favor of the impeachment of President Richard Nixon was a key moment in the Watergate…

The construction of the atomic bomb, Little Boy, soon to be dropped on Japan