Photograph shows Diego Rivera painting his mural "Man at the Crossroads" at Rockefeller Center, New York, which was controversial and finally destroyed.1933. Library of Congress He was a free-spirited ...

Three decades before the “War on Terror” and its orientation of “Islamic terrorism” as the principal threat to American security, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was its standing talisman. The color ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also known as Mohammad Reza Shah, the last Shah of Iran, courted a very close relationship with the United States and its leaders for almost three decades. The American Central ...

America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for the ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an admired ...

Sonoma State Home for the Feebleminded Hospital, where sterilizations took place. Historical postcard, from the personal collection of Alex Wellerstein. In February 1930, Concepcion Ruiz, a ...

The fatal duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr shocked the nation. But it was the identity of the man killed, not the fact of the duel itself, that produced such dismay. By 1804, dueling had ...

How the Gold Rush, Prohibition, and a 1990s news report helped define American wine consumption. Labeling bottles of wine in Sonoma County, California, in 1942. Russell Lee/Library of Congress For ...

View of laborers preparing cotton for gins, on Alex. Knox's plantation, Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, S.C. 1874. Library of Congress Historians describe white Southerners' varied responses to ...

She made a name for herself by speaking out against fascism abroad and at home. Then the fight got personal. On the morning of August 25, 1934, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson was taking ...

Susanna on the way to Casa Susanna, Catskills, New York, Art Gallery of Ontario © AGO In the 1960s, a group of cross-dressing men and transgender women spent ...