From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels, and both sides are labeled "Beirut" on the ground at the bottom. In the left panel, a U.S. Army truck labeled "Peacekeepers" travels toward Beirut...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. In the upper frame of this cartoon, a U.S. soldier is on the ground with his rifle. He looks up over his shoulder as a flare lights up the night sky. The track of the flare is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. In the center of the cartoon are two people who hold protest signs that read, "Against the war" and "Against those against the war." Each protestor in the center has a...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is running away from ghosts labeled, "Vietnam...Inflation...Crime" and past a sign labeled, "The fabulous '70's." The sign shape includes a direction that is the same as...
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...
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...
Photograph of Brett Favre during a football game against the University of Alabama. Favre is pointing toward his right with his left index finger and looking in the same direction, just before taking the snap. The photograph is featured in the 1991...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; Men travel in a car into the state of Illinois, and a sign welcomes them. Behind this sign is a larger sign reading,"historical adventureland; drive some of the same early century roads grandfather traveled; Illinois...
From McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Paste-up with text and color proofs (on same sheet as The Lord's Prayer) of Children from the Bible illustrated by Priscilla Pointer (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1940) Little color classics #840, from the books...
cartoon by Jim Lange; The top picture shows a rocket ready to launch on the right and a small dot on the left labled,"Common cold bug (highly magnified)" The dot is sneezing. The bottom picture shows the same dot in the same positon with the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The cartoon is divided in two parts. On the left side, an American soldier sits on one side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and reads a newspaper with the headline, "'68 election...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document records the tallies of votes for candidates in the Freedom Elections in Mississippi by county. It also records the vote tallies for the regular Democratic and Republican...
cartoon by Jim Orton; A man stands at a desk in a nearly empty chamber of the House of Representatives: there are a few figures in other desks in the room, in poses that would indicate boredom or sleep. The man poised to read his speech says to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A hippie labeled, "Student draft violator," is burning his draft card. At the same time, he is looking back over his shoulder at a poster of General Lewis Hershey that reads,...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Exemplified in a series of figures. Published in London by S. and J. Fuller, in 1810. This copy is the 6th edition. The illustrations are hand-colored cutouts with interchangeable parts. ...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act supplemental to, and amendatory of, the several acts for the sequestration of the estates, property and effects of alien enemies, and for indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States, and persons aiding the same...
A Bill: Making appropriation for the removal of the naval rope walk and erection of the same. By Mr Boyce, from Committee on Naval Affairs; Read first and second times, placed on the Calendar and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. The upper floors of the United Nations building are shown, with a number of people hanging out the windows. One person, labeled South Africa, has apparently been pushed out of a...
