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An allotment delegation approaches the Nez Perce
The Dawes Act
The original Star-Spangled Banner is on view at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
Grace Wisher: The Black Girl Who Helped Stitch the Star-Spangled Banner
National Guard Soldiers wearing gas masks and holding rifles
The Kent State Massacre
The U.S.-Economic Cooperation Administration created numerous posters to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. This one, depicting the flags of various Western European countries receiving Marshall Plan aid, was produced in 1950.
The Marshall Plan
artwork, 32 Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
NCAA Basketball championship banners.
The Big Business of “Amateur” Intercollegiate Sports
Captain America punching Hitler
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas
Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes United States Flag while standing on the moon
Fly Me to the Moon
President Joe Biden with other foreign leaders, sitting around a table with others looking on
How does Ideology Drive U.S. Foreign Relations?
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. (Image by Eric E Johnson)
Originalism’s Historical Problems: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of a Controversial Theory
Carrie (left) with her mother, Emma Buck, at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924.
The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
A Jewish man looking at gravestones that have been spray painted with swastikas
Anti-Semitism in America: Past & Present
Robert Smalls pictured between 1870-1880.
The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls
And Water for All - stylized image of hands with water behind them
... And Water for All
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.
These Machines Know Too Damn Much
Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.
Episodes of Ambivalent Empire
Booker T. Washington
Picturing Black History
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.
Forces of Good and Evil
Heroin bust.
Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
Bombing Hiroshima
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August, 2021.
Who are the Taliban?
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.
The Dawes Act
pile of syringes
The Global War on Drugs