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An overview of the Women's Studies Program at Santa Clara University including a brief history as well as program requirements.

View of a large brick schoolhouse with students and teaches standing in front of - likely Santa Cruz County, Calif.

This man alludes to the Soviet rejection of Open Skies in 1955 and their advancement in missile development. This clip was made months after the Sputnik satellite launches when Americans were reeling from this apparent Cold War setback.

In a press conference, Roy Wilkins makes the claim that the NAACP was the first organization to execute sit-in protests and that the phenomenon did not actually begin with the February 1, 1960 Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in.

Senator Lodge describes the proposed Open Skies program, which was intended to de-escalate the Cold War and provide more transparency for technological and military developments. The Open Skies program would have allowed reconnaissance operations to…

Soviet infantry in winter camouflage with a convoy of T-40 light tanks during the Battle of Moscow, 1941

"In 1900 the Office of the Superintendent of Immigration, which had been established in the Department of the Treasury in 1891, became the chief agency responsible for implementing Federal regulations mandated by the Chinese exclusion laws. Both the…

Photograph of Mission Cemetery taken in present day (2020).

Highlights gold found in various regions of California during the Gold Rush.