Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices such as the ...

Racial segregation was still legal in the United States on February 1, 1960, when four African American college students sat down at this Woolworth counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Politely ...

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH "Entertainment Nation”/”Nación del espectáculo” Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture ...

The First Ladies explores the unofficial but important position of first lady and the ways that different women have shaped the role to make their own contributions to the presidential administrations ...

[[Obverse Text]] ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG [[Translation]] People's Bank of China [[Reverse Text]] 中国人民银行, 元 [[Transliteration]] ZHONG / GUO / REN / MIN ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education marked a turning point in the history of race relations in the United States. On May 17, 1954, the Court stripped away constitutional ...

The depth, the dark, and the dangers inherent in mining created a uniquely dangerous working environment for the miner. Miners faced death from collapsing mines, oxygen deprivation, and haulage ...

This marble-operated game shows an array of eight discs, each of which can be either yellow or blue. A set of eight plastic rods on the inside – each linked to one blue and one yellow disc – can rest ...

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After the Civil War, millions of formerly enslaved African Americans hoped to join the larger society as full and equal citizens. Although some white Americans welcomed them, others used people’s ...

This object is a distilling flask made by Schott & Genossen. The distilling flask, also known as a fractional distillation flask or fractioning flask, is a vessel with a round bottom and a long neck ...

Understanding women’s history is integral to understanding the American experience. Although often underrepresented in recorded histories, women helped build the United States of America of today and ...