Browse Items (5126 total)

Japanese Americans, escorted by armed soldiers, walk down the Eagledale ferry dock on Bainbridge Island, WA at the beginning of their forced removal to the Manzanar Assembly Center in the California desert.

View of barracks that housed Japanese internee's at the Puyallup Assembly Center (Camp Harmony).

more at http://quickfound.net

President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam (near Berlin). The meeting was originally called the "Berlin Conference," the name was later changed to the "Potsdam…

Enrico Fermi standing in front of nuclear energy technology he helped develop.

Political cartoon of a Chinese man seated outside Golden Gate of Liberty.

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

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.

A photograph of a young David Bohm during the late 1930's.

Houses and city roads in rubble

Map that show the route of Japanese territory I Asia 1942

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

Closing words of Franklin Roosevelt's Speech preceding America's entry to WWII

A Mexican mother is photographed with her children.

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

Al Capone's criminal record in 1932. Despite a litany of charges, he ended up being nabbed for tax evasion. (FBI/U.S. Bureau of Prisons)

Regarding Al Capone's incarceration, he was needed for classification among his peers in order to clarify the "star ranking" of the inmate.

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

Al Capone has been affiliated with multiple crimes in the past, specifically in money laundering, illegal distribution of narcotics, and of course, tax evasion.

Marshall Plan

An Ohio liquor store runs a sale before going out of business the day before the prohibition took effect in the state.

President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress asking for $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. This speech became known as the "Truman Doctrine" speech.

A photo of the devastation caused to Nagasaki from the atomic bomb.

After the war, a movie about the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team was made

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Universal Newsreel clip of his sixth Fireside Chat (September 30th, 1934).

Please note that political material posted on my channel should not necessarily be seen as reflecting my own personal views.

From the…

Race 2012: A Conversation About Race and Politics in America, a PBS election special. Check local listings.

Claire Jean Kim, Assoc. Prof., Political Science, University of California, Irvine, explains that this act instituted the national origins…