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Full body shot of Cannon standing on deck of ship

An American Tourist in Nazi Germany

Posted by: Josh Levy

Wendell Cannon, a high school teacher from Illinois, toured Europe during his summer break in 1936. His journal, photographs, and other souvenirs capture familiar tourist activities such as a visit to Paris’s Arc de Triomphe as well as the unique experience of visiting Nazi Germany and witnessing Jesse Owens win gold in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

Of Note: Supreme Baseball

Posted by: Laura Kells

The notes exchanged between baseball fans Harry A. Blackmun and Potter Stewart during the 1973 American League Championships and the 1975 World Series show how notes exchanged between justices of the Supreme Court provide insight into their informal relationships, allowing us to understand better the individuals who serve on the nation's highest court.

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

Nixon’s Political Football

Posted by: Ryan Reft

Less than three months after the Watergate break-in, the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) attempted to use NFL football as a political tool to further the president’s 1972 reelection campaign encapsulating Nixon’s innovative use of the sport for electoral advantage and underlining his aggressive approach to politics.