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Wreckage of USS Utah laying in the mud at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii b&w film copy neg.

The USS Utah is depicted as it's wreckage has come ashore in the hours following the bombings of Pearl Harbor. A desolate tone is set by the…

Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center

Japanese people finding time for extracurricular entertainment at the internment camps following Pearl Harbor.

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.), December 22, 1861

Gives updates on what is happening in the war

Image 1 of Vermont phœnix (Brattleboro, Vt.), September 4, 1862

It talks about Lincoln recruiting new soldiers for a new battle

A 1957 American political cartoon titled “Another Race We Can Lose.”

This political cartoon from a St. Louis newspaper sums up America’s despair over the successful Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit…

Pro-Confederate account of the Battle of Gettysburg

Pro-Confederate account of the Battle of Gettysburg

Residents of Gettysburg area prepare for battle prior to Battle of Gettysburg

Residents of Gettysburg area prepare for battle prior to Battle of Gettysburg

A model of the Soviet N-1 rocket, designed for a moon landing mission, ca. 1970.

The Soviets intended to use this rocket and capsule to send humans to the moon. The program lacked funding and, after four failed attempts, the…