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Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Fight the Red Menace Art, Geography, Religion and Philosophy, World History 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On the December 2, 2021, session of Inside the Vault , Professor Victoria Phillips discussed selected trading cards from the Fight the Red Menace: Children’s Crusade against Communism series . In 1951, the Bowman Bubblegum Company...
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Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Dwight D. Eisenhower's Views on Vietnam in 1967 and 1968 Government and Civics On October 6, 2022, our curators discussed documents pertaining to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s views on Vietnam in 1967 and 1968. They were joined by Professor Michael J. Birkner of Gettysburg College, who described Eisenhower’s evolving...
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