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A poster of a woman with a joyful expression encouraging other women to find their war job

A poster of women walking in unison showing how they are off to work

Cartoon shows Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev looking in dismay at a massive stone hammer and sickle, now shattered into many parts. One of a new breed of Soviet leaders who ascended to power in 1980s, Gorbachev implemented political and cultural…

A comparison of US and Soviet military expenditure, 1984-1991

On January 21, 1990, in support of Ukrainian independence and the aspirations for greater autonomy from the Soviet Union, people joined hands in a 600-kilometer human chain known as the Chain of Unity, also known as the Ukrainian Wave, across…

A satirical sign posted outside the Crawdad Hole restaurant in Flowood, Mississippi. Hippies, demonstrative members of a disaffected youth subculture, were more of a nuisance to retaurateurs in the 1960s than of late, in the second decade of the 21st…

This mural commemorates two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement

Piazza Basilone is a public gathering space and war memorial in the Little Italy neighborhood of San Diego