Historical Documents

Making Sense of Films: Film as Social and Cultural History
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras
Proclamation 3447
Proclamation 3447
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Tierra Amarilla Land Grant and Courthouse Raid
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Executive Order 10925
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Gideon v Wainwright
Gideon v. Wainwright
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Redlining Map, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1935
Redlining (1937-)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring- Excerpt
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras
Picture of Ernesto Miranda
Miranda v. Arizona
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Beale Street, Memphis, TN
Birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll? Memphis has plenty of evidence in its favor
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Joseph Jackson
Annual Address by Joseph Jackson
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Camp David Accords
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Shabana Maani, gives a polio vaccination to a child in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 29, 2021 (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the UN says
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
A Winter Walk
"A Winter Walk" Essay
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras

Articles

Big Bang at Bikini (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Grab the Wheel, Bull (December 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Did MacArthur Ignore a Crucial Signal from the Chinese? (December 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Whatever Happened to New Math? (December 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Other British Invasion (October 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Dickey Chapelle in the Fight (Fall 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 7)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Disaster at a Distant Moon (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Love, Jackie (September 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Help From on High (May/June 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 3)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
On the Road with the Green Book (Summer 2021 | Volume: 65, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Catherine Leroy Parachutes into Danger (Fall 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 7)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
An Afternoon With The Shadow (February/March 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Thomas Gilcrease and His Western Museum (February 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Summer Of Our Discontent (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Leaving for Korea (February/March 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Echoes of a Distant War (July/August 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Ernie Pyle Digs in at Anzio (Summer 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 4)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Mr. Smith Goes Underground (September 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
“I Am in Birmingham Because Injustice is Here" (Winter 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Ralph Bunche's Role in Creating Israel (May/June 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 3)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Cost of Living (October 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi (Spring 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Coya Knutson: The Woman of the Century (December 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Stellar Books on America from the Truman to Nixon Eras (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Snagging a Ted Williams Line Drive (December 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Up by the Bootstraps from Slavery (December 1986 | Volume: 38, Issue: 1)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Kennedy Packs the House (May/June 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 3)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Plan the East Rejected (April 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 3)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Plain Faking? (May/June 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 3)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
A Village Disappeared, Thanks to Executive Order 9066 (November/December 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 8)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Compromise 5: Medicare’s Complicated Birth (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Golden Anniversary of Our Magazine (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Alfred Hitchcock’s America (April/May 2007 | Volume: 58, Issue: 2)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Sex, Death, and Ronald McDonald (September 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 5)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Ike Shrugged Off Sputnik (October 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 6)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Historical Images

Reported polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2022
Reported polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2022
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

Collections

US Army helicopters fire into the tree line to cover South Vietnamese ground troops in March 1965
First Blood In Vietnam, by Stanley Karnow
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)