It’s International Walk to School Day!
How do (or did) you get to school?
Chart Showing a Day of Television Programming in Chicago, 09/16/1954
An exhibit from the Senate Judiciary Special Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency during its investigation on the effect of television programming on juvenile delinquency.
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#Chicago
#Today's Document
#television
#today in history
#crime
#violence
#juvenile delinquency
#TV
Shadowy Towers of the World Trade Center rise behind St. Paul’s Chapel in this Documerica photograph.
Historic Trinity Church on lower Broadway at the foot of Wall Street. Behind loom the towers of one of Manhattan’s newest giants, The World Trade Center. 05/1973. Wil Blanche, Photographer
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#St. Paul's Chapel
#Twin Towers
#World Trade Center
#history
#Documerica
#9-11
#U.S. National Archives
#National Archives
#archives
#Today's Document
#today in history
Happy birthday Michael Jackson!
Here’s one for the King of Pop on what would have been his 53rd birthday:
Michael Jackson with President and Nancy Reagan at the White House ceremony to launch the Campaign against Drunk Driving. May 14, 1984.
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#Icons
#Michael Jackson
#Nancy Reagan
#Ronald Reagan
#White House
#politics
#history
#celebrities
#U.S. National Archives
#happy birthday
#White House
#Today's Document
#King of Pop
August 24, 1942 - Japanese Attack on the USS Enterprise.
This was the third Japanese bomb to hit on the flight deck of the Enterprise. The photographer lost his life while taking this picture.




