Browse Items (2952 total)

"Newsmap" - Volume 2, Number 17, 8/16/1943; The obverse shows the Newsmap for the week of August 5 to August 12. The reverse shows "Jap Aircraft." American poster/chart

National Archives (NARA) Still Picture Identifier: 26-nm-2-22b overseas. Aircraft Insignia.
World War II Era "Newsmap" - Volume 2, Number 22 (Overseas Edition), 9/20/1943; The obverse shows the Newsmap (Overseas Edition) for the week of September 9…

Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting combat air patrol intercepting the incoming Japanese dive bomber raid on USS Yorktown (CV-5), at about noon on 4 June 1942.

Handwritten arrest record for Huldah Elizabeth Taylor on May 15, 1963 for trespassing during at Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in demonstration.

Translation:
"The defeat of Germany"
"Most of the world's nations today share a state of happiness and joy due to what was announced of Germany's defeat. Except that Japan is not one of those happy, joyful nations because the defeat of their…

The first systematic effort to estimate the destruction to the Soviet Union that a U.S. atomic attack would cause and the extent to which the destruction would be decisive to the outcome of a U.S.-Soviet war.

Analyzing the aftermath of areas around Chernobyl using satellite imaging.

Medha Karve was born in Mumbai, India in 1957 to parents of first-generation Indian-Americans. When she was 9 years old, her father immigrated to the US as a scientist at Yale University with his family and was one of the first scientists to study…

Promotes the Woman's Party which advocates equality "in all laws and customs". Includes text from the Declaration of Sentiments adopted at Seneca Falls Convention, 1848, and the resolutions adopted at that convention.

Young black demonstrators in the image are lined up outside the theater while a group of white teenage boys make a line in front of them.