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Khrushchev on Cuban Crisis 1962Speech 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 KhrushchevJohn F. Kennedy meets with Nikita Khrushchev
Chronology of the Washington Spring Project 1967The Washington Spring Project (1967) was the original planning name for the Poor People's Campaign. It was an organized movement by Dr. Martin Luther…
Anti-Slavery Petition from the Women of Philadelphia
To make their voices heard on the important social issues of their day, women organized themselves and used petitions to influence Congress.
In…
Susan B. Anthony's Indictment for Illegal VotingSusan 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…
Two SPARS pause on the ladder of the dry-land ship `U.S.S. Neversail' during their `boot' training at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Station
Photograph from LBJ Meeting with Civil Rights leaders
Barbara Jordan, first African American woman elected to Congress from Texas, is remembered for her commitment to the U.S. Constitution. Her speech…
Turing's Treatise on the Enigma - A Photographic Copy of a Paper Prepared in GCCS, written ca. 1939-1942A declassified internal manual written by Alan Turing and other codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the war. It gives a detailed breakdown of how…
Atomic bomb preparations at Tinian Island, 1945The construction of the atomic bomb, Little Boy, soon to be dropped on Japan
A German woman and a bare-footed young girl from Nammering are forced to walk among the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near the town.On April 19, 1945, a freight train with nearly 4,500 prisoners from Buchenwald pulled onto the railroad siding at Nammering. The train had been…