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  • WWII Cartoons poster image canonical_images/feature/War_letters_WWII_Cartoon_canonical.jpg XXX Image Gallery
    War Letters | Image Gallery

    WWII Cartoons

    One of the most famous World War II's cartoonist,  Bill Mauldin, chronicled war for the people doing the fighting.

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    U.S. Military Actions and Wars, 1775 - 1994

    From the first guerilla war for American independence from England in 1775 to end of the Bosnian War in 1995.

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    Featured Letters

    In every American war, military men and women captured the horror, pathos and intensity of warfare by writing letters home. 

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    Censorship!

    Learn about wartime letters and censorship.

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    In Your State

    Chances are you and your family have old war letters or other family artifacts. These things are not only of personal value, but may be of historic significance to your community as well.

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    All the Ancient Gods Come to Life

    An Interview with Major League Baseball Official Historian John Thorn

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    Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

    Adams was a very active child, and felt restricted in school, which he found meaningless. When he was 13, his father began to tutor him at home.

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    Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge's 1923 State of the Union address to Congress was the first ever to be broadcast via radio. He would continue to use the medium effectively, giving at least one radio address per month. 

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    Adams' Photo Gear

    Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness in 1920, when he was just eighteen. 

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    One Favorite Place

    American Experience talked to William Tweed, the chief park interpreter for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. about Kings Canyon, a place that Ansel Adams helped make a national park.

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    Art or Document?

    Is photography a fine art, equivalent to the other visual arts, or a documentary tool, best suited for recording the facts?

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    Ansel Adams and the Age of Photography

    Learn about the history of photography technology and the career of Ansel Adams