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In the American Civil War, almost 180,000 African Americans enlisted to fight for the Union Army. One of the most notorious African American regiments was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. These soldiers where treated poorly and many of the died from…

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

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

Lange's Migrant Mother snapshots the grim gaze of Florence Owens Thompson, one of the many destitute farmers in California. In 1936, when this picture was captured, Thompson was a mother of seven children, and lived in Nipomo, California.

Post card from 1915 depicting a suffragette.

These unemployed men standing in line outside a soup kitchen in Chicago Illinois.

Black and white portrait of cartographer and publishing mogul John Murray I.

Black and white portrait of German cartographer Augustus Petermann.

Flyer advocating for support of the farm workers in the grape boycott of 1965.