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Mural in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
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
A sign of satire posted outside a restaurant
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…
Photos of Ukraine rallies and protests
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…
Power, prosperity and social choice: A review
A comparison of US and Soviet military expenditure, 1984-1991
[Gorbachev beholds a shattered hammer and sickle]
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…
Don't Miss Your Great Opportunity
A poster of women walking in unison showing how they are off to work
Find Your War Job
A poster of a woman with a joyful expression encouraging other women to find their war job
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America : Asian Indian Americans (p.165-178)
Recognizing that ethnic differences are transforming American education expectations, political ideals and popular culture, Gale presents a vital, new multicultural reference. Gale Encyclopedia Of Multicultural America contains 152 original essays…