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Refugees from Nazi Germany on board the St. Louis en route to Cuba. The passengers were denied entry into Cuba and the US and were forced to return to Europe.

Print shows Uncle Sam dancing through a minefield of political issues, such as "Catholic Demands for part of School Funds", "Single Tax Fad", "Populism", "Prohibition Foolishness", "Women's Rights Nonsense", and the "Free Silver Mania", which all…

Demonstrators gathered in front of a Woolworth store in Harlem, New York, Feb. 13, 1960, to protest lunch counter discrimination in Greensboro, Charlotte and Durham, North Carolina. The demonstrators, who belonged to a civil rights organization known…

Following her arrest, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. On Nov. 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down Alabama state and Montgomery city bus segregation laws as being in violation of the equal protection…

Drawing of a dove in outer space (wearing a space helmet) hovering over planet Earth.

A few months after the Apollo disaster, Werner argues that the space program has numerous benefits. Among these is it raises the prestige of the country, it stimulates the national economy, and that much new knowledge and technology from the U.S.…

People with disabilities throughout American history have faced difficulties in getting work skills and finding jobs. This image fits among many depictions in this time of male disabled amputees performing tasks using the latest in what was called…

An audio of an interview with Ann Ellicott Madeira, who was recruited by the United States government as a code breaker during World War II.

This photograph taken outside the camp captures the survivors huddled together in the camp compound. Duggan captioned the photograph "Prisoners freed by the US 3rd Army."

George Pepperdine College's newsletter, "On the Beam," discusses the Vocational Rehabilitation Program sponsored by the government and administered by the Veterans Administration. The program is aimed at helping veterans who meet specific criteria to…