Past Exhibits

Featured Document Display: Harvey Milk Writes to the President
Fri, 05/31/2024 - Mon, 06/17/2024
In 1978, Californians voted on Proposition 6, which would have banned gay men and lesbians from teaching or otherwise being employed by California school districts.

Featured Document Display: Memorial Day: Honoring the Fallen
Thu, 05/16/2024 - Thu, 05/30/2024
Memorial Day recognizes and honors the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the Armed Forces.

Featured Document Display: The Purple Heart Battalion
Tue, 04/16/2024 - Wed, 05/15/2024
Composed of 12,000 Japanese American volunteers and dubbed the “Purple Heart Battalion,” the 442nd Regimental Combat Team is the most decorated American military unit for its size and length of service.

Featured Document Display: Frances Perkins: Champion of Workers' Rights
Thu, 02/29/2024 - Mon, 04/15/2024
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
Thu, 02/01/2024 - Wed, 02/28/2024
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
Thu, 12/14/2023 - Wed, 01/31/2024
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
Thu, 10/19/2023 - Wed, 12/13/2023
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
Tue, 07/25/2023 - Mon, 07/31/2023
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
Tue, 06/20/2023 - Wed, 10/18/2023
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
Thu, 04/27/2023 - Mon, 06/19/2023
Film legend Anna May Wong’s talent could not be contained by the racist casting of early Hollywood movies.