[Early Computers] [ Space and Aviation] The National Military Establishment, Research and Development Board, Committee on Guided Missiles. Glossary of Guided Missile Terms. Washington, D.C.: Research and Development Board, 15 September 1948. 8vo. 72 pages. Original staple bound brown printed wrappers. Issued at the dawn of the Cold War and.....
[African American Education] [Women's Education] Howard University graduates, 1929, photo archive documenting African American higher education at one of the central institutions established to provide educate for African Americans after the Civil War, during a period when access to advanced schooling remained sharply restricted by segregation, unequal funding, and exclusion.....
Official Bulletin (1918) records an official wartime statement by the United States government addressing the role of African American soldiers serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. Issued under the authority of the Committee on Public Information, the publication functioned as a government news organ.....
U.S. Army and Defense Department Soviet-threat instruction archive documenting late Cold War American intelligence on Soviet ground forces into battle-simulation tables, field doctrine, weapons comparisons, and nuclear battlefield procedures. "Soviet Military Power," carrying Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger's printed preface, shows Soviet tanks, artillery, helicopters, SS-20 and ICBM and.....
United States Department of the Air Force technical manual archive documenting the scientific and engineering foundations of American missile guidance, radar systems, and military electronics during the early Cold War, issued between 1951 and 1959. Produced for the Air Training Command, these instructional texts trained Air Force personnel responsible for.....
King, Martin Luther, Jr., original silver gelatin press photograph taken March 31, 1968 in Washington, D.C., documents his appearance at Washington National Cathedral to deliver the sermon “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” four days before his assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968. The image shows King on the.....
Cold War U.S. military instruction archive of government-produced manuals and intelligence studies showing how the Army trained soldiers to recognize enemy weapons, report battlefield information, and classify Soviet military power. The archive includes a U.S. Army field manual which explains how battlefield reports became military intelligence. The Soviet weapons guide.....
The Day They Marched edited by Doris E. Saunders, published in 1963, documents the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and preserves one of the earliest book appearances of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Issued within weeks of the August 1963 demonstration, the volume records.....
[Ecology] U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service's Advanced Waste Treatment Research series, issued 1960–1964, which document the federal government's first sustained research program addressing the inadequacy of conventional sewage treatment in an industrial and chemically complex society. Issued following the 1961 amendments to the Federal Water.....
Sacrifice for Freedom! This World Cannot Exist Half Slave and Half Free by John Philip Falter appeared in 1942 as part of the United States government’s wartime propaganda campaign designed to mobilize public support for the global struggle against fascism. Produced by the Office of Facts and Figures early in.....
AFL leadership press photo archive, documenting council meetings, conventions, White House visits, and interunion conferences by the American Federation of Labor, 1924-1943. William Green succeeded Samuel Gompers as AFL president in 1924 and led the federation through the Depression, the New Deal labor laws, and wartime price and wage disputes.....
Photographs of an Omega Psi Phi fraternity Mardi Gras dance in Washington, D.C. during the 1960s document African American social and fraternal life in a period when Black institutions organized formal cultural spaces in response to segregation and exclusion from mainstream venues. Founded in 1911 at Howard University, Omega Psi.....
King, Martin Luther, Jr. I Have a Dream Speech. 1963 text of Martin Luther King Jr.’s address delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, signed by Coretta Scott King. The speech articulated the central moral and political demands of the Civil Rights Movement.....
Archive of twelve items relating to the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C., April 4, 1949, documents the formal creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the institutional beginning of the Atlantic alliance system in the early Cold War. The materials include official proceedings, printed treaty.....
Woodson, Carter G. The Negro History Bulletin. These mid-twentieth century periodicals document the institutionalization of African American historical scholarship and pedagogy under the leadership of Carter G. Woodson, whose work established Black history as a formal field of study in the United States. Issued between 1941 and 1949, these issues.....
[Cold War] [Nuclear History] [Activism] "No Nukes" rally photograph archive, May 6, 1979, documents the largest anti-nuclear demonstration in United States history, organized in direct response to the March 28, 1979 partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania. Held on the National Mall in Washington.....
United States Department of Labor Women’s Bureau publication on equal pay for women during World War II documents federal efforts to address wage disparities as women entered wartime industry in large numbers. Equal Pay for Women in War Industries (1942), issued by the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of.....
[Federal Agricultural Policy][Environmental Management][USDA] Archive of 19 United States Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletins and related federal publications issued between 1903 and 1943 documenting the federal government’s expanding role in agricultural science, land management, and rural modernization during the Progressive Era and the decades surrounding the Dust Bowl. Produced by.....
[Environmentalism][Agriculture] Archive of six manuscripts and printed works concerning water rights, water supply, and environmental regulation in the United States and Britain during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The materials chronicle the evolving legal protections governing access to water resources, including industrial use, agricultural supply, municipal control of waterways.....
Stone Martin, David. Strong In The Strength of the Lord We Who Fight In The People's Cause Will Never Stop Until That Cause Is Won, 1942, a U.S. government wartime poster that articulates the ideological pro-America push on the American home front during World War II. Produced in the first.....
Department of the Air Force and related publications on guided missiles issued between 1958 and 1959 document the technical, strategic, and institutional development of missile systems during the Cold War arms race, including coordination between U.S. military training programs and NATO aligned industrial production. Produced for both instructional and public.....
Nine works of trans and cross-dressing erotic fiction, circa 1980s to 1990, documenting a specialized adult market for fiction centered on feminization, gender-role reversal, and fantasies of sexual and social roles outside conventional heterosexual gender roles. The narratives range from cross dressing to l transformation. Several titles were issued by.....
John F. Kennedy funeral photograph archive, November 1963, documenting the state funeral of the assassinated United States president and the extraordinary gathering of international political leaders in Washington, D.C., at the height of the Cold War. Taken three days after Kennedy’s assassination, the photographs record the funeral procession, military honors.....
Woodson, Carter G. (ed.). The Negro History Bulletin. These mid-twentieth century periodicals document the expansion of African American historical scholarship and pedagogy during the Civil Rights era, when educational institutions, activists, and scholars increasingly challenged the exclusion of Black history from mainstream curricula. Issued between 1964 and 1971, these issues.....
[Federal Agricultural Policy][Environmental Management][USDA] Archive of 17 United States Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletins and federal publications issued between 1898 and 1949 documenting the federal government’s expanding role in agricultural science, land management, and homesteading during the Progressive Era and the decades surrounding the Dust Bowl. These bulletins document the.....
