From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men, one with an elephant head and one with a donkey head, are working either end of a large saw to cut down a huge tree. The man with the donkey head is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A husband and wife are in their home, he sitting in a chair reading a newspaper and she standing nearby holding a travel brochure. She is dreaming about traveling to Europe for a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A man labeled "Mr. average Joe" reads a newspaper with headlines, "Kennedy-Kopechne secret inquest" and "Panther inquiry in Chicago." He asks, "Wonder if they'd do as much for me?"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy is shown as a boxer who has taken a beating in the ring. One eye is blackened, and his face is covered in bandages labeled with state...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Jimmy Carter is shown lying in bed thinking (or worrying) about Senator Edward Kennedy dumping a freezer labeled "Wage and price freeze" on him.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon stands outside the open door of the "GOP dressing room." With one hand, he points toward the dressing room while he holds a suit coat and slacks in the other. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. A photograph shows Leonid Brezhnev and Edward Kennedy in Russia, standing side by side in front of the Kremlin. Each has an arm around the shoulder of the other. Both wear heavy...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill, labeled "Congress," ride on a Mardi Gras float labeled "Krewe of deficit reduction." A closed chest is on the float, and the men look at each...
From the Esther Hautzig Papers.; A fan letter from Andrew Bergmann, a student from Southborough, Massachusetts, concerning Esther Hautzig's The Endless Steppe; 8 1/2 x 11
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and a man labeled "Demos." (Tip O'Neill) are dressed as painters (smock, tie, and beret) in an art gallery where an exhibition of framed paintings hangs. They...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Richard Nixon speaks to a journalist (artist Runtz's signature cat) writing on a note pad labeled "Press." Nixon is saying, "...very helpful to have another active candidate." From...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Boston, Mass., by L. Prang, in 1863. Toy book cut in the shape of a standing Little Red Riding Hood. Title from illustrated paper cover. "Entered according to act of Congress, in...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. "Tip" O'Neill, dressed as a baseball player and labeled "Demos," stands on the pitcher's mound in an otherwise empty field. He watches as a baseball sails over his head toward the back...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Tip O'Neill, labeled "Congress," stands in front of a military tank being driven by Ronald Reagan. The tank's gun is labeled "18-months limit in Lebanon." O'Neill, with the U.S....
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 6, 2009 and April 2, 2009 with James L. Black, a pastor at Faith Tabernacle of Praise in Biloxi, MS. Rev. Black describes the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on the Mississppi Gulf Coast as...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 conducted with Ella Kliger, an independent filmmaker, who describes her experience with various volunteer and relief efforts in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Transcribed copy of an essay on African-American history from 1900-1964, written by Otis Pease for Mississippi Freedom Project workers. Includes brief biographies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and mentions the Myrdal study.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 4, 2008 with John Hairston, Chief Executive Officer of Hancock Bank, Gulfport, Mississippi. Mr. Hairston discusses his family history, experience during Hurrican Katrina, and the economic impact...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 20, 2008 with Ellis Cuevas, who describes life in the Waveland, MS, area before and after Hurricane Katrina.
