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A portrait of U.S. Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, who advocated for air power in the 1920s.
Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces
Hiroshima after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.
Terrorism: A New Kind of War?
19th century engraving showing Wall Street from the corner of Broad Street.
The First Wall Street Bomb
USS ARIZONA sinking during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
The 1942 Internments and Today’s Security Crisis
Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006.
Make Residency, Not Just Working, Legal
Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
Ivy and Slavery
Old man sitting alone in a park.
Social Security Reform for All
FDR and Churchill at the Atlantic Conference in 1941.
A New Atlantic Charter?
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.
Marking a Tragic Anniversary
John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club.
Conservation — An American, and Republican, Tradition
Admiral William D. Leahy in 1944.
Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent
A judge's gavel resting in front of legal books.
Windows and the Bench: Microsoft and the Judges
Mount Holyoke College
Historical Truth and Personal Truths
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1793.
Common Sense: Salute Paine, Not Jefferson, on the Fourth
Photograph of a mock-up of the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. This was the first photograph of the Little Boy bomb casing to ever be released by the U.S. government (it was declassified in 1960).
Sowing Nuclear Seeds of Division
Cazy Freewill Baptist Church in West Virginia, USA.
Faith-Based Groups Should Be Careful What Whey Wish For
US president Bill Clinton and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997
The Next Cold War?
Cygnet, Ohio, in Wood County was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.
An Energy Plan for You!
President George W. Bush signs a law in front of senators.
The Dark Side of “Faith-Based Initiatives”
Election Day in Philadelphia 1815 by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions.
How We Learned to Love the Constitution
Image of a junior high school classroom from Harris & Ewing Photographs.
An Historic Opportunity in Education
President John F. Kennedy delivers an address on the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Historical Analogies: Handle With Care
Nixon shakes hands with Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
Nixon and China, Bush and Cuba?
A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.
Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate