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USA Yesterday'
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July 2017 |
| "Although the US participated as a direct combattant in [World War I] from 1917-1918, the riveting posters, cartoons, fine art prints, and drawings on display chronicle this massive international conflict from its onset through its aftermath." |
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September 2003 |
| The collaboration of a German prince and a Swiss-born artist produced what is perhaps the most magnificent--and accurate--series of pictures depicting early America to be found anywhere. |
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September 2007 |
| ". . . Images often focused on attractive love interests and happy stay-at-home moms who--in the optimism of a post-World War II nation--appear delighted by the modern novelties of suburban family life." |
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July 2021 |
| "Before it can be explained how, and to what extent, FDR's gold policies contributed to the recovery [from the Great Depression], we must step back in time to consider the causes of the banking crisis, including the part gold played in it." |
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July 2017 |
| This exhibition "explores the drafting of the Constitution in 1787, highlighting th ekey proposals and significant compromises that influenced the early drafts and shaped the document's final text." |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2008 |
| "Mary Jemison's story illustrates the desires and hardships of frontier life. [It] offers a picture of at least one of the cultures that existed on the North American continent when Europeans arrived in what to them was a New World." |
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USA Yesterday |
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September 2011 |
| As a veteran of four Admininstration, the author was well-suited to serve as chairman of Pres. Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, a group that helped launch the greatest revolution of prosperity our nation has ever experienced. |
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July 2006 |
| "This nation," declared Benjamin Franklin, "was established in spite of [any number of] obstacles, with an expedition, energy, wisdom, and success which the whole history of human affairs has not, hitherto, given an example." |
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July 2011 |
| When Charlie Chaplin was denigrated by narrow-minded, history-impaired "love-it-or-leave-it" type Americans, his victimizaiton showed, as in so much of life, that the enemy quite often is on this side of the fence. . . . |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2016 |
| "Many of the artists featured worked for the Fed. Government's Division of Pictorial Publicity, a unit of the Committee on Public Information, [which] focused on promoting recruitment, bond drives, home-front service, troop support, and camp libraries." |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2011 |
| When we flip on a light switch, the miracle of alternating current stays w/ us. Locomotives still are stopped by air brakes. The ride in our cars remain cushioned by compressed air. The list of George Westinghouse's patents goes on and on. |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2001 |
| The 50th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor brings personal memories as well as national commemorations. |
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USA Yesterday |
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September 2020 |
| "Many economists and economic historians . . . Maintain not that the New Deal was rotten through-and-through, but that big chunks of it were counterproductive, and that the damage done by these undid much of the good done by the rest." |
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May 2018 |
| Examining the personalities and constitutional debates that shaped America . . . The exhibit provides an intimiate look into Alexander Hamilton's enduring role in the constitutional and political arguments that continue to create spare to this day. |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2019 |
| "[The exhibit] presents the invention of landscape architecture as a response to the social and environmental situation of working-class immigrants in the industrial metropolis and reconsiders the role of artists and cultural producers in addressing…" |
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September 2020 |
| "In 1861, William Tweed leaves behind his fire department and runs for sheriff of the Metropolitan Police. He loses. Instead, he becomes the chairman of the Democratic General Committee, the head of Tammany--Boss." |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2002 |
| "Lionized in hundredds of dime novels and later in movies, [William F.] Cody's international popularity spanned decades." |
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USA Yesterday |
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March 2015 |
| "After a half-dozen years doing what we dubbed The Original Woodstock Project--an effort to gather the signatures of all the festival's original artists--we had learned that…you had better be tancious enough to handle the twists and turns." |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2011 |
| Economic freedom is intertwined closely with personal liberty; business-government relations should be characterized by less intervention by government; and free trade is the international combination of these two themes. |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2017 |
| "[The Atomic Energy Commission] released the following information: 'Accidental release of radioactivity detected offsite only.' This most likely translates to 'more deadly radiation exposure to workers.' " |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2006 |
| These artists "consciously broke many of the accepted rules of photography, [yet] shared a common vision and objective: to record their personal responses to the vivid and often violent city surrounding them." |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2001 |
| "Underfunded and politicized election procedures were as much a theme of the 2000 election as they were in 1876." |
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USA Yesterday |
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March 2004 |
| Harry Benson's photographs celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Fab Four's British invasion of America. |
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January 2019 |
| "…The nation's first president…saw plenty, from Brooklyn to Patchogue to Setauket and back. He was honored at each venue and wrote…diary entries about his impressions of the carraige stops for food and overnigth stays at taverns and private homes." |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2015 |
| "When we celebrate Independence Day, we should be reminded of the rights revolution that gave birth to our nation, and grateful for the unique privilege of living in a land whose founding charter promises protection for the unalienable rights of man." |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2014 |
| ". . . Mac Conner is one of the few remaining voices of an influential group of New York illustrators who created the look of a generation. . . . " |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2006 |
| Almost 200 yrs have passed since lawyer/poet Francis Scott Key had a ringside seat to one of the greatest battles in American history. When the smoke had cleared, the US had defeated Great Britain in the War of 1812 and our nation had a new anthem. |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2006 |
| Here's a look at a bygone era, an affectionate glimpse of fans, performers, and the places where they mingled. |
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USA Yesterday |
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September 2015 |
| The exhibition examines, among other things, "the boom years in the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, when the Greenwich Village was the focal point of the revival and culture due to the concentration of performance venues." |
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July 2007 |
| The legendary explorer and mountain man--who could neither read nor write, yet was fluent in a number of languages--provides historians with an interesting paradox: a daring and fearless individual who was both friend and foe to Native Americans. |
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USA Yesterday |
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March 2010 |
| Winslow Homer's "remarkable images alternatively are poignant, witty, romantic, and thought-provoking." |
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USA Yesterday |
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September 2003 |
| He "opened its vistas not only to ordinary, grateful pioneers, but to all who savored this country's geographical largesse." |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2016 |
| "…There were no Secret Service agents on the sides or rear of [JFK's] limousine in Dallas like there should have been…The agents were ordered off the limousine by their superiors, not by the President." |
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USA Yesterday |
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September 2021 |
| There is no better example of Sarah Josepha Hale's sway as the preeminent cultural influencer of the mid 19th century than two traditions she introduced in the 1840s that continue to flourish in the 21st century: the white wedding gown and Christmas tree. |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2019 |
| "While immigrants from Protestant and non-Protestant countries had very similar effects on natives' employment and on economic activity, they triggered very different political reactions." |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2020 |
| "The square was a mass of people whooping and singing by torch light . . . . A good many of them had sons, brothers, or husbands who had died here four and a half months before. Now they had come to mourn and find purpose." |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2006 |
| A series of unique photo exhibitions of America's former--but still foremost--sex symbol could help save a historic California theatre built during the Roaring Twenties, with a storied past of performing arts, vaudeville, and motion picture presentations. |
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USA Yesterday |
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January 2015 |
| "[The First Lady] must stay strong without ever becoming tough; must be unfailingly supportive in public and constructively critical in private; must see all to avert trouble and say nothing to get into trouble." |
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July 2015 |
| "A scrap of paper, a few names, a soldier's vision… At the cemetery, Boy Scouts will have placed flags on each resting place. The National Guard will fire two cannons three times, and a small band will play … ." |
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USA Yesterday |
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March 2021 |
| "The American story, still young, already is the greatest ever written by human hands and minds. It is a tale of freedom the likes of which the world never has seen." |
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USA Yesterday |
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March 2017 |
| "…The cycle is complete. Under Roosevelt, the Democrats seized the political center, while under Obama, they have been reduced to the periphery." |
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USA Yesterday |
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January 2009 |
| "Persuasive visual symbols designed to rally Americans to the cause, [World War I posters] employed bold graphics, strong imagery, and concise commands to inspire a sense of nationalism and pride." |
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July 2009 |
| "[The exhibition] helps us understand our democracy by reintroducing us to our common heritage and ideals. It . . . Provides an innovative way to experience U.S. history through our nation's art." |
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USA Yesterday |
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March 2016 |
| Paintigns of high society figures, titans of industry, and Founding Fathers illustrate early New York's growth as a city and arts capital. |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2019 |
| "No period in American history witnessed a more-signigicant consolidation of economic activity into large firms than the Great Merger wave of 1895-1904." |
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USA Yesterday |
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January 2016 |
| "Excited to greet well-wishers, [Sen. George McGovern and his wife] moved to the edge of the stage and leaned forward to shake hands. Meanwhile, I was stuck behind. If someone had opened fire,…" |
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USA Yesterday |
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September 2004 |
| Pres. Ronald Reagan brought financial greatness back to America by reducing regulation, government spending, marginal tax rates, and inflation. |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2013 |
| "Even in death, war is inescapable. It shapes who we are, who we will become, and where we are headed. At Gettysburg, that truth lingers around any corner you turn." |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2010 |
| Colorful music makes for colorful posters during the Psychedelic '60s. |
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USA Yesterday |
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January 2020 |
| ". . . Often . . . Mischaracterized as a quiet seamstress, [she actually was] a seasoned activist with a militant spirit forged over decades of challanging inequality and injustice." |
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USA Yesterday` |
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November 2015 |
| "In one of life's little ironies, my next protective assignment [after segregationist Gov. George Wallace] was that of another political candidate--a woman who happened to be black [Shirley Chisom." |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2018 |
| William Howard Taft's overriding goal as president and chief justice was to exercise the powers of each office as vigorously as possible within constitutional bounds while resisting populist pressures that threatened the rule of law. |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2010 |
| A celebration of posters that inspired a nation through the "War to End All Wars." |
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USA Yesterday |
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September 2008 |
| "[What] about the voter who was not included in preferred interest groups . . . the forgotten voter for whom there is 'no provision in the great scramble' for Federal largesse? Our elections are not good elections until they welcome back that voter, too." |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2020 |
| "Over the course of three days of rioting, killing, and lynching, 3,000 African-American -- one-quarter of [New York's] free black community -- saw their homes and businesses destroyed." |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2015 |
| The exhibition "'Speaking Out for Equality' will be the centerpiece of 'Reminder 2015: Celebrating 50 Years of LGBT History, Art, and Culture.'" |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2008 |
| These "images--ranging from intimate studies of the artist's friends and family to public sporting events and social gatherings--have not been seen together since the 1950s." |
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USA Yesterday |
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January 2021 |
| Before he spoke for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater, most people knew Ronald Regan as a fading film star. Millions soon recognized him as something new and powerful in American politics. |
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USA Yesterday |
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January 2006 |
| "Marlon Brando changed the way actors acted; James Dean changed the way people lived." |
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USA Yesterday |
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March 2005 |
| "In everything she did . . . Jacqueline Kennedy taught America that style is not vanity but a way of living. In doing so, she lifted the national spirit and helped define our place in the world." |
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May 2005 |
| Some 250 years later, the "Clash of Empires" exhibition explores the French & Indian War. |
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USA Yesterday |
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March 2014 |
| "The mansion's interior brick walls were sinking as untold tons of presidential house pressed down from above, and cracking all the way up through three floors as they did." |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2008 |
| ". . . The contradictory forces and emotions of nascent hippy idealism and free love ran parallel to revolution, radicalism, and civil unrest. . . ." |
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USA Yesterday |
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March 2014 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. stands shoulder to shoulder with Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. |
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USA Yesterday |
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January 2005 |
| "The exhibition explores how the power of photography helped transmute the shy Norma Jeane into the most iconic screen goddess of all time--the myth that is Marilyn Monroe." |
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USA Yesterday |
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November 2021 |
| The nationwide banking holiday marked the turning point of the Great Depression. [The] recovery would not have been possible had the public not been convinced not only to quit withdrawing money from their banks, but to start putting it back in. |
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USA Yesterday |
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May 2021 |
| Sketches from the Federal trial against police officers for violating Rodney King's civil rights and his civil lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles stand out as the type the Library of Congress should be collecting and making available to researchers. |
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