The above are pictures of the ENIAC or the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was initially designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory

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Six-year-old Robert and ten-year-old Michael read the newspaper announcing that their parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, have one more day to live. New Jersey. June, 1953. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a  married couple who were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951. They were put to death in the electric chair. 

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Civil rights activist and the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, James Meredith grimaces in pain as he pulls himself across Highway 51 after being shot in Hernando, Mississippi, June 6, 1966.

In the picture, Meredith is lying on the street in agony. He cried out, “Isn’t anyone going to help me?” No one did, but the photographer Thornell shouted that he should stay calm, and that an ambulance was on its way. Meredith was taken to a hospital where the pellets were extracted, and he healed well enough in two days to finish the march before it reached Jackson.

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U.S. flag formed by 10,000 American sailors, December 1917

Classic illustration of a woman’s medical exam by her doctor. Many 19th century medical textbooks used this illustration to show the proper manner to examine a female patient. The physician’s eyes are diverted so he will not violate the woman’s “modesty.”