Twentieth Century

A select group of materials highlights the major events of the twentieth century including World War I, World War II, women’s suffrage, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Cold War.

Selected searches in the Collection’s catalog

• Progressive Era to New Era
• The US Navy and the Boxer Rebellion in China
• Women’s suffrage
• World War I documents
• NAACP
• Great Depression
• New Deal
• Communism
• World War II
• Letters from Lieutenant Sidney Diamond written from Pacific theater during World War II
• Major General John Hilldring’s archive of materials relating to his military service and his position as assistant secretary of state for the occupied areas
• A collection of items related to the Manhattan Project
• 1945–present
• The Civil Rights Movement