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Mexican nationals arrive in Yakima Valley under the Bracero Program beginning on October 5, 1942.Beginning on October 5, 1942, and continuing through the 15th, more than 500 Mexican nationals arrive in the Yakima Valley under the Emergency Farm…
BracerosDomingo Ulloa's crowd of seasonal laborers, who peer dejectedly through a barbed-wire fence, reinforced mounting public protest against their poor…
Depression Food Handout
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, GermanyThis black-and-white photograph shows Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini together in Munich, Germany, around June 1940. The image comes from Eva…
Great Depression, Run on banks during the Great Depression
Aerial View of the Ruins of RotterdamThis black-and-white aerial photograph shows the ruins of Rotterdam after the German bombing of the city in May 1940. The image documents the…
No left turnCartoon shows newly inaugurated Brazilian president Joao Belchior Marques Goulart in the saddle of a horse labeled "Brazil." The left rein is…
Second Inaugural AddressIn his Second Inaugural Address on January 20, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reflected on the progress of the New Deal while acknowledging the…
Report, Central Intelligence Agency, Guatemala, Situation Report 46This excerpt comes from a CIA report on Guatemala in 1950. This section describes potential threats and opportunities Guatemala poses for the US,…
National Labor Relations ActThe National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act, was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 5, 1935. The act…