Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Bruce Grimes, a resident of Pascagoula, MS, who describes his experience during Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, including re-building his home.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. In this fragment, circa 1862-1864 Belcher...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. A man labeled "Rocky," (Nelson Rockefeller), wearing a parachute, has just jumped from the side door of a plane labeled "The race." He looks back over his shoulder at the plane and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Leonid Brezhnev stands on the 1st place platform of an Olympic-style awards podium wearing a medal labeled "50% more land-based missiles." An arm with a spike collar on the wrist...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jack Jurden. A donkey dressed as a magician shakes in fear and wears a shocked expression. With one hand, the donkey waves a wand over a top hat labeled "1972." With the other arm, he reaches...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man wearing a white lab coat watches a television broadcast from the lunar orbit of the Apollo 7 mission. An astronaut on television holds a handkerchief to his nose and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a bomb for a head, labeled "Bombings" holds a pipe wrench in one hand. Around him are the words, "Law violations...Racketeering." Behind him is a tourism sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An old man on the right side of the cartoon has a very long beard, the end of which is being held by a hand on the left side of the cartoon. The beard is labeled, "More...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards stands on the portico of the governor's mansion. Behind the mansion is a man dressed as a chef labeled "Politics" cooking at an outdoor grill on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. An American bald eagle stands on the curved globe, with a U.S. Air Force roundel symbol on its wing. A forearm with "Ho Chi Minh's overtures" on the sleeve reaches from the right...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. An Asian man labeled "Reds" jumps back in surprise as a large hand reaches forward, offering him a locked ballot box labeled "Thieu's offer of free elections in South Vietnam."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. South Vietnam's Nguyen Cao Ky and Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek stand before a giant in army uniform, labeled "U.S.," who is shown from the hips down. Ky, a young man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, dressed in western clothing, are having a gunfight in an Old West town. Ford wears a sheriff's star on his shirt. Storefronts are labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. At the lower left of the cartoon is a building with a U.S. flag on top, labeled "State's public school system." On the horizon of a hill behind the school, in large block letters, is...
