HISTORY
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Recent United States History
Images and World Wide Web Links
In the first 100 years of
its history the United States expanded from Atlantic to Pacific.
In the next hundred years Americans saw the earth as no other
humans had. Photo: the earth as seen from Apollo VIII in 1968,
NASA Photo ID: AS08-16-2596. Check out the Apollo 8 mission and the multitude of other NASA
images at the agency's history homepage.
| General Links for Recent US History | The United States from 1870 to 1900 |
| The United States from 1900 to 1920 | The United States from 1920 to 1945 |
| The United States Since 1945 |
Celebrate summertime's past in images and links with the Library of Congress, Today in History feature for June 21.
This page was last updated
August 21, 2002
Copyright, James W. Harper, Texas Tech University, 1997.
Background: an altered image of the Declaration of Independence, see the original images at the presentation on the Declaration of Independence by the US National Archives.