Past Exhibits
Featured Document Display: Frances Perkins: Champion of Workers' Rights
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Frances Perkins was a main architect of the New Deal, securing retirement, disability, and unemployment benefits still in effect today.
Featured Document Display: 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional in public schools.
Featured Document Display: 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
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It wouldn’t be known as the “Boston Tea Party” for another 50 years, but the destruction of the tea in 1773 marked a critical turning point in the brewing American Revolution.
Featured Document Display: 200th Anniversary of the Monroe Document
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Buried in a routine annual message to Congress in 1823, President James Monroe articulated the landmark foreign policy statement known today as the Monroe Doctrine.
Featured Document Display: Summer of 1948: A Step Forward for Equality for all in the U.S. Armed Forces
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On July 26, 1948, President Truman signed Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 ending racial segregation in the federal workforce and in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Featured Document Display: Diseños: An Impact of Mexican Cession
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Diseños are important evidence of the profound impact that the Mexican Cession had on the lives of some Mexicans whose land became part of the United States.
Featured Document Display: Celebrating Anna May Wong
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Film legend Anna May Wong’s talent could not be contained by the racist casting of early Hollywood movies.
Featured Document Display: Vicecapades: 150th Anniversary of the 1873 Comstock Act
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Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), a self-appointed guardian of public morality, successfully lobbied Congress for stricter obscenity laws and secured an appointment as a special agent to the United States Postal Service with broad powers to police the mails.
Featured Document Display: The Maker of Pilots: Willa B. Brown
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Aviator Willa Beatrice Brown (1906–92) achieved numerous “firsts” in her lifetime, many of them earned through her tireless advocacy to integrate aviation programs.
Featured Document Display: Courting Confrontation: The Arrest of Susan B. Anthony
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On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women were arrested for attempting to vote in Rochester, New York.
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