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1968, Sports Illustrated cover of Curt Flood, named baseball’s “Best Centerfielder” as a St. Louis Cardinal. Just a year after this cover, the Cardinals sought to trade Flood to another team. Flood challenged being traded without his consent,…

JSA would often run a falafel stand at Spring Fair, exposing other students to Israeli food and giving Jewish students a kosher option. This was a very popular booth, so much so that when the University scheduled Spring Fair during Passover, the…

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe

As men left civilian and military clerical jobs for overseas duty, demand for women to fill these positions increased. Women worked as stenographers for the government and the armed forces. In this poster, Washington’s need for more stenographers is…