Japanese Surrender Document That morning, on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese envoys Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu.. http: //archives.gov/exhibits/featured_document...
Selected Views of the Statue of Liberty - Library of Congress Selected illustrations from the holdings of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division on the subject of the Statue of Liberty http: //lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/077_stat.html
The Emancipation Proclamation The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." http: //archives.gov/exhibits/featured_document...
The Marshall Plan As the war-torn nations of Europe faced famine and economic crisis in the wake of World War II, the United States proposed to rebuild the continent in the interest of political sta http: //archives.gov/exhibits/featured_document...