In October 1942, the New York publishing firm Simon & Schuster, the Artists and Writers Guild, and the Western Printing and Lithographing Company of Racine, Wisconsin, joined forces to create a new ...

This pair of apothecary jars allowed a druggist to advertise both the drugs and toiletries carried by the shop. The jars are were advertised in 1898 by the Whitall Tatum Company, and sold to druggists ...

This exhibition and website explored Puerto Rico's history, from the 16th to the 20th centuries, through the eyes of collector Teodoro Vidal. Vidal captured the island's history by collecting ...

Racial segregation was not illegal in the United States on February 1, 1960, when four African American college students sat down at a "whites-only" lunch counter at an F. W. Woolworth store in ...

"Spacecraft technicians check the fuel cell in the adapter section of the Gemini VII spacecraft. Three modules each containing 32 individual sections are combined with appropriate control devices to ...

The first successful microwave EDM was invented by Col. Harry A. Baumann of the South African Trigonometrical Survey, developed by Trevor Lloyd Wadley of the Telecommunications Research Laboratory of ...

Share an intimate and dramatic view of the Nixon presidency and the Watergate hearings as seen through the lens of photojournalist Fred J. Maroon. The website for this exhibition was retired in 2024 ...

More than 60 photographs trace 1960s counterculture from the psychedelic music scene in San Francisco and Los Angeles to a spiritual, family-centered commune life in New Mexico. The website for this ...

What was once a delicacy for nobles in Japan has now been popularized to reach a wide domestic and international audience. Sushi, a Japanese food of cooked vinegar rice and ingredients such as seafood ...