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Pro-Confederate account of the Battle of Gettysburg

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 the earth. This cartoon alludes to the warming relations between the Soviet Union and India, a…

It talks about Lincoln recruiting new soldiers for a new battle

Gives updates on what is happening in the war

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

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 overturned vessel.

A photograph of Ann Caracristi, a cryptanalyst who worked as a code breaker during World War II. She later became the first female deputy director of the NSA.

Cartoon showing women constructing the word "Women" and working on a jeep.

A Soviet soldier walks through a mound of victims' shoes piled outside a warehouse in Majdanek soon after the liberation. Majdanek, Poland