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William H. Gass's U.S. Navy Officers Hat, worn during his service in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

Program for the graduation exercises of the 21st class U.S. Naval Reserve Midschipmen's School.

"American Poet David Wagoner," the United States Information Agency poetry reading and workshop tour packet for David Wagoner's trip to the Near and Middle East, circa 1970.

Programs, correspondence, and various other material related to Raymond Federman's participation in the United States Information Agency reading and workshop tour of Africa, 1991.

The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice opened its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department on September 4, 2014. This investigation has revealed a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct within the Ferguson Police…

United States Army Pictorial Center identification issued to William Gaddis as a contract writer working on such films as "The Battle at St. Vith."

Howard Nemerov's Army Separation Qualification Record, August 21, 1945. Nemerov flew for the Royal Canadian Air Force in Europe from 1941-1944, when he joined the U.S. Army Air Force and flew combat missions until 1945.

Fannie Lou Hamer testifies at Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1964.

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates holding hands in a circle (praying) at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.

Medgar Evers, NAACP field secretary, and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, are arrested for protesting beatings and arrests of civil rights demonstrators in Jackson, Mississippi. The two men are surrounded by white police officers. A…