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Visualization of smallpox cases reported globally.

Visualization of polio deaths and cases globally.

At some point during the 1990s the size of the Asian Indian population in the United States surpassed the one million mark. Today’s Indians in America are a diverse group. They come from every state in India as well as from around the globe: England,…

A sit-in by Junior NAACP activists at a segregated movie theater in Farmville, Virginia. The item was donated by Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum, a volunteer with the Virginia Student-Help Project in 1963.

Have you noticed similarities and differences between Desi Americans and Desi immigrants? We’re excited to present a podswap with Pallavi Janiani from the ! Highlights include: Pallavi’s experience growing up in a joint family in Jaipur, India and…

A xerox of a news clipping from the Palo Alto Times outlining how SCU has increased its efforts to enroll more minority students and increase diversity at the school.

Renuka Paltanwale was born in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1998. Her father had moved to California in 1994 to work for Microsoft, and she and her family lived in California until she was in fifth grade. They returned to India, and she continued…

Small projectile points made from obsidian (volcanic glass)

During the mid 19th and early 20th century, Americans were very concerned with having the proper ceramic serving wares, and tea cups were an essential piece to any household’s dining sets (Fitts, 1999; Fitts, 2002; Brighton, 2011). It was considered…

Map of current day Santa Clara Mission with overlapping labels of missions sites