Photographs of American History

2011-10-16T12:49:00.000-07:00

Obama on a Midwest bus tour to promote his jobs program

2011-10-16T12:45:00.000-07:00

President Obama in the White House Oval Office

2011-03-24T23:08:00.000-07:00

President Obama speaking about the bombing of Libya

2011-03-24T22:53:00.000-07:00

Outbreak of war in Libya in March 2011.

2011-03-24T22:49:00.000-07:00

Explosion at Japan's Fukoshima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

2011-03-24T22:45:00.000-07:00

Devastation from the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan

2010-11-11T06:06:00.000-08:00

2011 Egyptian protest rally

2010-11-11T06:05:00.001-08:00

President Obama in the White House Cabinet Room

2010-11-11T06:04:00.001-08:00

President Barack Obama in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room

2010-09-12T12:54:00.000-07:00

April 2010 - End of Iraq War and U.S. Occupation of Iraq

2009-09-16T01:13:00.001-07:00

April 2010 - Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Explosion and BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

2009-09-06T01:23:00.000-07:00

2009 World-wide H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic

2009-09-06T01:07:00.000-07:00

President Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, President Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama at the Funeral for U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy

2009-09-06T01:05:00.001-07:00

Barack Obama Is Inaugurated as President of the United States.

2009-09-06T00:57:00.000-07:00

Senator John McCain Campaigning As the Republic Candidate for President.

2009-09-06T00:55:00.001-07:00

Barack Obama and His Wife Michelle and Daughters Sasha and Malia After Accepting the Democratic Nomination for President at the Democratic National Convention

2009-09-06T00:53:00.001-07:00

Barack Obama Campaigning for President.

2009-09-06T00:51:00.001-07:00

President George Bush.

2009-09-06T00:48:00.000-07:00

Iraq War Protest.

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Iraq War Dead.

2009-09-06T00:43:00.000-07:00

War in Iraq.

2009-09-06T00:42:00.001-07:00

U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan As Part of War On Terror.

2009-09-06T00:40:00.003-07:00

Destruction to the Pentagon in Washington, DC After the Terrorist Attack On September 11th, 2001.

2009-09-06T00:37:00.000-07:00

Firemen Raise An American Flag Over the Destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City After the Terrorist Attack On September 11th, 2001.

2009-09-06T00:36:00.000-07:00

Terrorist Attack On World Trade Center Towers In New York City on September 11th, 2001.

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Terrorist Attack On World Trade Center Towers In NYC on September 11th, 2001

2009-09-06T00:29:00.000-07:00

Inauguration of President George W. Bush

2009-09-06T00:18:00.000-07:00

President Clinton in the White House Oval Office.

2009-09-06T00:10:00.000-07:00

President Clinton Negotiates Arab-Israel Peace Treaty.

2009-09-06T00:06:00.000-07:00

President Clinton Signs Kennedy-Kassabaum Health Reform and Portability Legislation While Kristin Hopper Looks On and With Congressional Leaders Behind Clinton and Kristin Hopper

2009-09-06T00:02:00.000-07:00

President Clinton Visiting Troops.

2009-09-05T23:15:00.000-07:00

Election of William Jefferson Clinton as President.

2009-09-05T23:09:00.000-07:00

New Boeing 747 Version of Air Force One.

2009-09-05T23:07:00.000-07:00

Presidential Office Onboard New Boeing 747 Version of Air Force One.

2009-09-05T23:03:00.000-07:00

New Boeing 747 version of Air Force One rolls out.

2009-09-05T23:01:00.001-07:00

President H. W. Bush Conferring With General Colin Powell and Dick Cheney on Status of Gulf War.

2009-09-05T22:58:00.000-07:00

President H. W. Bush Meeting With Troops In Kuwait During the Gulf War in 1991.

2009-09-05T22:54:00.000-07:00

White House Easter Egg Roll During Presidency of George H. W. Bush.

2009-09-05T22:53:00.001-07:00

Inauguration of President Herbert Walker Bush.

2009-09-05T22:49:00.000-07:00

President Reagan With Ex-Presidents Ford, Carter and Nixon

2009-09-05T22:46:00.000-07:00

Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

2009-09-05T22:35:00.001-07:00

Presidential Helicopter Marine One Flying Over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

2009-09-05T22:31:00.000-07:00

Marine One Presidential Helicopter Taking Off From the White House South Lawn.

2009-09-05T22:29:00.000-07:00

Air Force One (original Boeing 707 version)

2009-09-05T22:27:00.000-07:00

President Working On Air Force One

2009-09-05T22:24:00.001-07:00

President Reagan Giving a Speech In Front of the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987

2009-09-05T22:22:00.001-07:00

President Reagan Giving a Speech On July 4, 1986 Celebrating the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty

2009-09-05T22:20:00.000-07:00

President Reagan Gives State of Union Speech After His Recovery From Assassination Attempt

2009-09-05T22:18:00.001-07:00

Assassination Attempt on President Ronald Reagan

2009-09-05T22:15:00.001-07:00

President Ronald Reagan Working in the White House Cabinet Room

2009-09-05T22:12:00.000-07:00

President Ronald Reagan Working While Eating Lunch in the White House Oval Office

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President Ronald Reagan Working in the White House Oval Office

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President Ronald Reagan Taking the Presidential Oath of Office in 1981

2009-09-05T22:04:00.000-07:00

Out-going President Jimmy Carter and President-Elect Ronald Reagan Ride Together In Presidential Limousine to 1981 Inauguration

2009-08-29T23:43:00.000-07:00

President Carter Mediates Mideast Peace Accords Between Egypt and Israel

2009-08-29T23:34:00.000-07:00

After the Arab oil embargo, President Jimmy Carter has solar panels installed on the roof of the White House and calls for conservation measures to reduce the nation's energy needs by 20 percent.

2009-08-29T23:22:00.000-07:00

President Carter In the White House Oval Office - Considering the Problem of Iran

2009-08-29T23:18:00.001-07:00

President Departing the Site of the Three-Mile Island Nuclear Plant Disaster in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

2009-08-29T22:54:00.000-07:00

Apollo 11 Moon Landing.

2009-08-29T22:26:00.001-07:00

Assassination Attempt on President Ford by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Follower of Charles Manson

2009-08-29T22:21:00.001-07:00

President Ford Dances With Queen Elizabeth at a White House State Dinner In Her Honor.

2009-08-29T22:18:00.000-07:00

President Gerald Ford Announces His Pardon of Ex-President Nixon

2009-08-29T22:16:00.000-07:00

Nixon Waves for One Last Time as He Departs From the White House on Marine One helicopter.

2009-08-29T21:54:00.001-07:00

President Nixon's Departing Speech at the White House.

2009-08-29T21:50:00.001-07:00

Nixon's Resignation Letter as President After the Watergate Scandal.

2009-08-29T21:46:00.001-07:00

President Nixon Visiting the Great Wall of China.

2009-08-29T21:37:00.000-07:00

President Richard Nixon Meets With Rock Star Elvis Presley in the White House.

2009-02-07T22:30:00.001-08:00

Kent State Killings of Students by the Ohio National Guard During An Anti-War Protest Demonstration

2009-02-05T16:16:00.000-08:00

LBJ in the Oval office.

2009-02-05T16:14:00.000-08:00

Vietnam War protest - anti-war protest.

2009-02-05T16:12:00.000-08:00

Vietnam War.

2009-02-05T16:08:00.000-08:00

LBJ signing the Medicare legislation, another one of his Great Society's programs.

2009-02-05T16:05:00.000-08:00

LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2, 1964 in the White House.

2009-02-05T16:03:00.000-08:00

Dr. Martin Luther King speaking at the Lincoln Memorial during the Civil Rights march on Washington.

2009-02-05T16:01:00.000-08:00

Civil rights demonstrator.

2009-02-05T15:58:00.000-08:00

President Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office of president after Kennedy was assassinated while Jacqueline Kennedy looks on. This was the first time that the presidential oath of office was administered by a woman.

2009-02-05T15:56:00.000-08:00

The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, After He Had Assassinated President Kennedy, by Jack Ruby

2009-02-05T15:51:00.000-08:00

President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in Dallas motorcade just before Kennedy was shot.

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First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

2009-02-05T15:41:00.000-08:00

President Kennedy and astronaut John Glenn inspecting Glenn's Friendship 7 Mercury capsule in which he circled the earth.

2009-02-05T15:36:00.000-08:00

President John F. Kennedy delivering his inauguration speech -- urging the nation to "ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."

2009-02-05T15:33:00.000-08:00

Kennedy inauguration as President.

2009-02-05T15:31:00.000-08:00

Kennedy debates Nixon during the 1960 presidential election.

2009-02-05T15:29:00.000-08:00

Black and white television in the 1950's.

2009-02-05T15:26:00.000-08:00

Levittown - the model suburb of the 1950's and the beginnings of suburban sprawl.

2009-02-05T15:24:00.000-08:00

President Eisenhower meets with Civil Rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King (on left).

2009-02-05T15:21:00.000-08:00

President Eisenhower signs the 1957 Civil Rights Act.

2009-02-05T15:19:00.001-08:00

Rosa Parks Sitting In Front Portion of Bus Reserved For Whites As A Protest of Segregation Policies

2009-02-05T15:18:00.000-08:00

Segregation.

2009-02-05T15:17:00.000-08:00

Segregation.

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Lynching of two young black men.

2009-02-05T13:18:00.000-08:00

Photograph of New York highways in 1946

2009-02-05T13:15:00.001-08:00

Jewish holocaust survivors of the German concentration camp at Buchenwald.

2009-02-05T13:13:00.000-08:00

Signging of Japan's surrender on the U.S. Battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.

2009-02-05T13:12:00.001-08:00

Celebrating the surrender of Japan during World War II.

2009-02-05T13:10:00.000-08:00

Explosion of atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan.

2009-02-05T13:08:00.000-08:00

Flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II.

2009-02-05T13:06:00.001-08:00

Poster of a woman factory worker in World War II.

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Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meeting at Yalta during World War II.

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Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill meeting during World War II.