During the summer of 1964 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent volunteers into Mississippi’s African American communities. They registered voters and taught civics, voting rights, ...

The results of the 1876 presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford Hayes were close enough to require recounts of ballots in Louisiana. President Ulysses S. Grant sent this telegram ...

The Civil War became the first conflict in which arrangements were made for deployed soldiers to vote. Who the Union soldiers would support—President Abraham Lincoln or their former commander, George ...

Bostonians protested the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The court ruled that the First Amendment protected the right of corporations, associations, ...

Participants commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington carried posters that voiced concern over the possible erosion of gains made by the civil rights movement after the ...

You are in a hallway just outside the entrance to the exhibit. As you entered this space, you passed through an opening in a black-painted wall. Above that opening is the title of the exhibit, ...

The restaurants and food stores opened by migrant entrepreneurs provided opportunities for consumers to learn about and delight in a wide variety of ingredients and dishes. They helped expand eaters’ ...

This single blue sheet was created by the Klein Institute and asked companies to attach the completed sheet along with the completed tests. The sheet asked for information on whether or not the ...

This badge is from the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee Festival, in 2001. The button is a made of red paper with black and white lettering covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a ...

The four pieces of this hinged model are colorful plastic on one side and have wooden bases. The pieces may be arranged as an equilateral triange in two ways. This appears to be model 4TH (Equilateral ...