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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…

Preliminary health screening at Ellis Island, 1920s.

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

Mexican immigrants being inspected for lice.

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

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

One of a number of posters created by the Economic Cooperation Administration, an agency of the U.S. government, to sell the Marshall Plan in Europe. Includes versions of the flags of those Western European countries that received aid under the…

July 1945 - two month after the end of the war in Europe and the allied victory over the German Reich the three allied leaders have come to Germany to work out a piece treaty - these 16 days, where the fate of post-war Europe was decided, go down in…

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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…

Japanese soldiers march down the streets of Shanghai, China after their Occupation victory and round up of 350 prisoners of war.

Japanese Immigration and Japanese- American Internment in WWII

This is a example of an anti-Japanese American discrimination, the first coming from Boston, Massachusetts , and next from somewhere in the western U.S. Below that is shown the home of a Japanese American family that was vandalized with anti-Japanese…

This postcard features a black and white photograph of the German armored cruiser Blucher, Known for being sunk at the Battle of Dogger Bank by the British during World War 1.