Life Story: Linda Moy Chin
The story of a Chinese-American immigrant whose experiences were significantly shaped by American domestic and foreign policies.
Housing Disparities
A set of photographs comparing suburban and urban housing in the St. Louis area.
Life Story: Loreta Janeta Velazquez (1842 – ca. 1897 or 1923)
The story of a Latinx Confederate soldier and spy.
Life Story: Letitia Carson
The story of a free Black woman who built a life in Oregon.
Life Story: Chien-Shiung Wu, 1912-1997
The story of a Chinese American physicist who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb and overcame many racial and gender barriers to achieve recognition.
The Great Migration
Three photographs that document the experience of Black women and girls migrating from the rural South to Chicago.
The Casket Girls
This kind of trunk was provided to the poor, orphaned, and imprisoned French women who were shipped to colonial Louisiana to marry French settlers.
Frontier Diplomacy
This engraving illustrates George Washington’s meeting with Seneca leader Queen Aliquippa, an important ally of the British during the French and Indian War.
Professional Portraitist
Two works by artist Henrietta Johnston, the first professional female portraitist in the English colonies, illustrate the fashions and values of the eighteenth-century colonies.
Evacuating the Colonies
This ledger records the biographical information about every enslaved or free Black person who evacuated New York with the British at the end of the war.
