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Executive Order 8807—Establishing the Office of Scientific Research and DevelopmentEstablishing the Office of Scientific Research and Development
Battle of Antietam / Thulstrup.
An excerpt from footage of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, 1969.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.…
"A Huggies run." Los Angeles riots- Fires--California--Los Angeles--1990-2000
- Running--California--Los Angeles--1990-2000
- Race riots--California--Los Angeles--1990-2000
Antietam Road statues at Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland.- Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital…
Letter from Luis Alvarez to His SonThis 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…
A National Commitment to the Rights of the Individual - 1776 to 1976The article presents a discussion about the history of special education for the handicapped people in the United States. During the time of President…
Enforcing the Right to an "Appropriate" Education: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975Reports on the approval of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 in response to the widespread recognition of the right of…
Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers.Those pictured include Jolan Wollstein of Szombathely, her children Erwin, Judith, Dori and Naomi, her non-Jewish governess Edith, Henchu Mueller…
Former prisoners of the "little camp" in Buchenwald stare out from the wooden bunks in which they slept three to a "bed."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…