Eager to serve
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduated enough professional officers each year to staff a peacetime army<&ndash> but not nearly enough for the...
Emergency at Love Canal
This memorandum to President Jimmy Carter recommends Federal assistance to relocate about 750 families from Love Canal, New York, near Niagara Falls, where a school...
Exempt from exclusion
Chu Hoy, a merchant with the Kwong Sun Chong & Company of 30 Mott Street in New York City, left Seattle for China to bring his wife and children into the United...
First lady and presidential mother
Born in 1925, Barbara Pierce, seen here in the early 1930s, grew up in Rye, New York. At the age of 16, she met future president George H.W. Bush and married him four...
Five years in the making
German-born John A. Roebling and his son, Washington A. Roebling, designed and built the Brooklyn Bridge connecting New York and Brooklyn. The remarkable design used...
Future First Lady
Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt and the future wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, poses for a portrait in a photography studio in...
“Gettin’ Awful Crowded!”
The Democratic race to challenge Republican President Calvin Coolidge in 1924 opened up when front-runner William McAdoo proved weaker than expected. This cartoon by...