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War Stories

War Stories

What's it like to be a war correspondent, on the front lines and in the trenches, reporting on conflicts that affect the fates of nations, cultures and human lives?

Stories of the Century

Stories of the Century

In early 1999, the Newseum announced the results of a survey of journalists, historians and the public regarding the top news stories of the 20th century. The results may surprise you.

Holocaust: The Untold Story

Holocaust: The Untold Story

Could a more aggressive press during World War II have saved lives? This exhibit dispels the myth that the Holocaust was a secret and explores the reasons why newspapers down played the story.

The Editorial Cartoons of Joel Pett

The Editorial Cartoons of Joel Pett

Take a look at the online version of the Newseum's exhibit featuring the cartoons of Joel Pett, the 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartoons.

The Editorial Cartoons of Ann Telnaes

The Editorial Cartoons of Ann Telnaes

Take a look back at events of 2000 through the work of Ann Telnaes of Tribune Media Services, the 2001 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

The Political Cartoons of David Horsey

The Political Cartoons of David Horsey

Relive 1999 through the eyes of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey. Based on a 1999 Newseum exhibit.

National Geographic's Women Photographers

National Geographic#39;s Women Photographers

Experience powerful, intimate and dramatic photojournalism that chronicles National Geographic's long-yet-little-celebrated-tradition of women photographers.

Live from the Moon: Lunar Television Camera

Live from the Moon: Lunar Television Camera

To capture man’s first voyage to the moon, a team of scientists needed to shrink a 400-pound studio camera to a 7-pound hand-held unit that astronauts could simply point and shoot. See how they did it.

Polumbaum's Freedom Summer Photos

Polumbaum#39;s Freedom Summer Photos

The Newseum's collection of images from noted news photographer Ted Polumbaum contains photographs of "Freedom Summer" in Neshoba County, Miss., where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.

Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall

Explore this interactive history exhibit created to mark the 10th anniversary of the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the "The Berlin Wall at Freedom Park" exhibit at the Newseum.

To Plead Our Own Cause: The 175th Anniversary of the Black Press

To Plead Our Own Cause: The 175th Anniversary of the Black Press

One hundred seventy-five years ago, John B. Russwurm and Samuel Cornish published Freedom's Journal, the first African-American newspaper, bringing a new perspective to American journalism.

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