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This is one in a series of issues of "Newsmap" that were published from 1942 to 1946 by the U.S. Army. This issue covers the week of December 4 to December 11, 1945, but summarizes the significant events of the year 1945 from January to December.…

Disability activists a part of ADAPT abandon their wheelchairs and mobility devices and crawl up the steps of the United States Capitol Building, demanding the passage of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) on March 12, 1990. More than 1,000…

Governor Nelson Rockefeller recording (and possibly sending out a live radio broadcast) a message about "Operation Goodwill". Operation Goodwill was originally a Cold War operation that sent money and goods to foreign countries, as a form of global…

In April 1977, disability activists nationwide picketed or occupied the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) offices to fight for the passage of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. The largest and longest protest took place at the HEW offices…

Gives us a view of what a person was reading in Louisiana during the Civil War.

We are able to see what people were reading on the newspaper in Minnesota

Soldiers of the 16th Infantry Regiment, wounded while storming Omaha Beach, France, wait by the chalk cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for treatment on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Soviet Union flag and the flag of the United States of America

Graph originally published in Burnside, Philanthropists and Politicians; data gathered from College Catalogs, 1866-1904

Alternative Title: Figure 2.14 in Berea College: An Illustrated History