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After some setbacks and second place finishes to the Soviets, the United States successfully became the first nation to land a man on the moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, and astronaut Michael…

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- Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.
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This item is an unsigned, three-page typewritten letter to Alvarez' son Walter, headed "August 6th, 10 minutes off the Jap coast at 26,000 feet," that describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The article presents a discussion about the history of special education for the handicapped people in the United States. During the time of President Lyndon Johnson, education was given priority. Laws focusing on the education of handicapped people,…

Reports on the approval of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 in response to the widespread recognition of the right of handicapped children to an adequate education in the U.S. Evaluation of the Act's procedural system;…

Those pictured include Jolan Wollstein of Szombathely, her children Erwin, Judith, Dori and Naomi, her non-Jewish governess Edith, Henchu Mueller Falkovics, Kreindel Vogel and her sister Sase Vogel and Rita Gruenglass.

Elie Wiesel is pictured in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, next to the vertical beam.

The man in the bottom left hand corner has been identified as Michael Nikolas Gruner, originally from Hungary, Gershon Blonder Kleinman or Yosef…

The long path to the Berlin Wall began in 1945, when Josef Stalin instructed the Communist Party to take power in the Soviet occupation zone while the three Western allies secured their areas of influence. When Germany was split into separate states…

"The Berlin blockade brought former allies to the brink of war. Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union defeated and began their occupation of Germany in 1945, and within a few years, the Soviets and their Western partners were…