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Portrait of Nellie Bly (ca. 1890). Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2010631213/>.

Nellie Bly and the 'Stunt Girls' that Smashed Barriers in Turn-of-the…

"When the Waters Reached the Orphan Asylum," Project Gutenberg's The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror, by Various

The Great Galveston Hurricane and the Sisters of St. Mary's Orphanage:…

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Arrives from Afar. A “dirty snowball” from the distant icy cloud encircling our solar system passed by the Sun and Earth in autumn 2024. Image of the Day for October 12, 2024. NASA Earth Observatory. Accessed 10/22/2024.

"All Human Life on Our Planet Will Then Be Snuffed Out": The Halley…

A Eugenics Society poster (1930s) from the Wellcome Library Eugenics Society Archive. By Wellcome Library.

A Brief History of the Eugenics Movement in America, "...or, The…

Opening ballot boxes (LOC). Bain News Service, publisher. [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]. https://flic.kr/p/ANNMmc

The Electoral College: How One Senator from Indiana Almost Brought It Down

Painting, Native Americas on horseback in battle.

'The collection of outlying Indians in these mountains... will be easily…

BBC Monitoring, Readex Text Explorer, word cloud analysis of the search terms space exploration and USSR

From Reading to Exploring: The Future of Textual Analysis with Readex Text…

The Sunday Oregonian. Portland, Oregon. October 24, 1948. From America's Historical Newspapers

Part 2: Death of a Clubman – Investigating the Cold Case

Making the Presidency: How John Adams Created Presidential Customs for the 21st Century. Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky.

How John Adams Shaped Presidential Customs for Modern America [Video]

The Sunday Oregonian. Portland, Oregon. October 24, 1948. From America's Historical Newspapers

Part 1: Death of a Clubman - The 1920 Murder of "Whist Wizard" and…

Alice in Wonderland: A play. Compiled from Lewis Carroll’s Stories Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Emily Prime Delafield. 1898. From: Nineteenth-Century American Drama

"The Mainspring of Civilization": Elements of Timekeeping

George Washington's Farewell Address, Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 31540_1796

George Washington's Radical Decision: A Modern Precedent

Boxing mail -- N.Y. Post Office (LOC). Bain News Service, publisher. [between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915].

Birth Control – "...a vice upon which relentless war shall be declared.…

Mrs. Yoshiye Abe, an American of Japanese ancestry, helps to make American flags in a Denver factory, from The Library of Congress

"This year, many persons of Japanese ancestry in the United States will…

BBC Monitoring listening room. ©BBC Archive.

Rubles, Renminbi and Yuan—Oh My! The Geopolitical Fortunes of Foreign Exchange

“…According to the laws of God and the rules of the Indian department”: The…

Cesare Dell’Acqua, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“Our rulers bide their time…”: The Monroe Doctrine and the Mexican Empire

Nez Perce Chief Lawyer, ca. 1861. 1861, University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.

“Like all other people, forbearance with them will cease to be a virtue…”: The…

“We hope that henceforth we will be able to obtain our rights”: Native…

“For the Great Father is angry, and will certainly hunt them down…”: Native…

Zoot Suit Riots: Opportunities for Discovery using Suggested Searches in…

image of the U.S. Constitution, "We the People"

“The Exponent of Rebellion”: Examining the 14th Amendment, Section 3 across the…

The Art of Listening: BBC Monitoring and the Historical Significance of the…

Nineteenth Century Treaties with Native American Nations: Highlights from…