Past Exhibits

Featured Document Display: Remembering the Hollywood 10: Screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr.
Thu, 09/08/2022 - Wed, 11/02/2022
Early in the Cold War, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated allegations of Communist activity in the film industry.

Featured Document Display: The 50th Anniversary of Title IX
Tue, 06/21/2022 - Wed, 09/07/2022
The Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act

Featured Document Display: Mathew Brady: A Pioneering Photographer
Thu, 04/21/2022 - Fri, 06/17/2022
Credited by many as the father of photojournalism, Mathew Brady is one of the most important photographers in U.S. history.

Featured Document Display: Jackie Robinson—Freedom Fighter
Thu, 01/27/2022 - Wed, 04/20/2022
Jackie Robinson was as fierce and determined about fighting injustice as he was about hitting home runs and stealing bases. 

Featured Document Display: Thanksgiving: Historical Perspectives
Mon, 11/22/2021 - Wed, 01/26/2022
In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the 1621 harvest celebration, explore some lesser-known perspectives of the federal Thanksgiving holiday.

Featured Document Display: 150 Years Ago: The Great Chicago Fire
Thu, 10/07/2021 - Tue, 11/16/2021
The Great Chicago Fire is one of the most famous fires in American history. The conflagration consumed over 17,000 structures, left an estimated 300 people dead, and one-third of the city’s residents homeless.

Featured Document Exhibit: Remembering 9/11
Tue, 09/07/2021 - Wed, 10/06/2021
A collection of children's letters that reveal some of the ways that America's youngest citizens reflected and responded to the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history.

Featured Document Exhibit: 50th Anniversary of Apollo 15 and the Lunar Roving Vehicle
Thu, 07/22/2021 - Wed, 09/08/2021
Almost three years to the day after Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for humankind, Apollo 15 astronauts took the Lunar Roving Vehicle for its first spin on the Moon.

Featured Document Display: The Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth
Sat, 06/18/2022 - Mon, 06/20/2022
The freedom promised in the Emancipation Proclamation was finally delivered to 250,000 people who remained enslaved in Texas two and a half years after President Lincoln’s historic proclamation and two months after Union victory in the Civil War.

Featured Document Display: The First National Park: Yellowstone and the Hayden Survey
Mon, 06/21/2021 - Wed, 07/21/2021
Scientist, physician, and explorer Ferdinand V. Hayden is credited with spurring Congress to make Yellowstone the first National Park.