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A Consolidated B-24 Liberator from Maxwell Field, Alabama, four engine pilot school, glistens in the sun as it makes a turn at high altitude in the clouds.

The B-24 is B-24D-7-CO 41-23828, which was later assigned to the 90th Bomb Group, Fifth Air…

English: U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island, New York Harbor

Coast Guardsmen at the Ellis Island Training Station.

Mikhail Gorbachev Delivers a Speech to the Council of Europe about the change of direction of the Soviet Union from that of the Brezhnev Doctrine

Margaret Thatcher Talks to Mikhail Gorbachev

"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…

"Immigrants from India first arrived in the United States in small numbers during the early 19th century, primarily as low-skilled farm laborers. In recent decades the population has grown substantially, with 2.4 million Indian immigrants resident in…

Women's Movement

People getting discharged from Ellis Island