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An aerial shot of the Grand Coulee Dam from June 14, 1941.

Japanese Americans made every effort to lead normal lives in the Puyallup Assembly Center. They cultivated gardens, engaged in different types of activities, and played games such as ping-pong.

In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Immigrants flocked to the US from all over the world in this time period. Millions of Europeans moved to the US where they…

"Cartoon shows two pairs of hands grasping for an Atom Bomb, one with a sleeve bearing a star and a cufflink reading "US," the other with a hammer and sickle. Probably drawn after President Truman announced in September 1949 that the Soviet Union had…

A Hanford Site worker wearing ionization chambers and a film badge during Manhattan Project plutonium production.

A security checkpoint on the border of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

Helen Gladys (Emery) Aoki and Gunjiro Aoki, March 1909.

Farming was extremely labor-intensive and still relied heavily on human and horse-power. An organized harvesting/threshing team in the 1920's required 120 men and 320 mules and horses. Teams moved from farm to farm as the crops ripened. Few farmers…

Newspaper article headline reads, 'Immigration Bill is Signed by President; Japanese Ban Becomes Effective on July 1.

A pamphlet questioning the democratic legitimacy of legislation modeled after that which created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), c. 1950.

'The political hostility between the United States of America and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1990 not only perpetuated enemy propaganda in both countries, but was also a power battle between both nations to sell their respective ideologies to the…

a propagranda poster from the US, published during the time of the cold war.

An Italian immigrant family arrives at Ellis Island at the height of immigration in the United States

Woman points to anti-Japanese rhetoric sign outside of her California home in the 1920s.

Map that show the route of Japanese territory I Asia 1942

Petition for japanese relocation

New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition

Ma Barker-Barker Gang

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A Mexican mother is photographed with her children.

Mexican migrant sugar beet workers, living in a one room house in the 1920s.

Mexican immigrants being inspected for lice.

Eleanor Roosevelt asks for tolerance from the Japanese.

Newspaper Clipping

NRA Blue Eagle poster. This would be displayed in store windows, on packages, and in ads.