Ellis Island, A view of the Emigrant Station in New York Harbor

Albert Einstein, ca. 1921

Library of Congress, ID: LC-H27-A-2848

Belle Springs Creamery

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 64-483

Early Ford automobile

Library of Congress, ID: 2011660900

Eisenhower birthplace in Denison, Texas

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 76-5-11

From left:  Roy, Arthur, Edgar, Dwight

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 64-167-2

First Eisenhower family home in Abilene

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 62-296-1

First flight with Orville manning the aircraft and Wilbur looking on

Library of Congress, ID: ppprs 00626

Frederick Jackson Turner

The World's Work, 1902

Ike's high school graduation photo

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 64-170

Marie Curie, 1890

Library of Congress, ID: 96512741

Newpaper article about the arrest of Homer Plessy

Daily Picayune , New Orleans, Louisiana

Platform of the National Negro Committee, 1909

Library of Congress, ID: na0024

Print featuring themes from the Spanish-American War

Library of Congress, ID: pga 01623

Reliance Building, Chicago, Illinois

Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS ILL,16-CHIG,30--2

USS Connecticut

Library of Congress, ID: det1994011766/PP

"We Can Do It!" poster featuring the cultural icon Rosie the Riveter

National Museum of American History

D-Day, 1944 - The Decision That Changed the World, E-Memorial Pivotal Moment Film

West Point, 1911 – A Life in Service to His Country, E-Memorial Pivotal Moment Film

A computer room at NASA

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 278195

Aerial view of the Pearl Harbor submarine base

Naval History and Heritage Command, ID: 80-G-451125

African-American and white soldiers during World War II

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, ID: 72-3952

Amelia Earhart sitting in the cockpit of an Electra airplane, December 15, 1937

Library of Congress, ID: 2011649482

Archduke Ferdinand and his wife shortly before their assassination by Gavrilo Princip

Imperial War Museums, U.K., Catalog number: Q 79761

Arthur Garfield Hays reading the scientists’ testimony into the Scopes Monkey Trial record

Smithsonian Institution, ID: 2009-21079

Berliners watching a C-54 land at Berlin Tempelhof Airport

United States Air Force Historical Research Agency via Cees Steijger (1991), "A History of USAFE", Voyageur, ISBN: 1853100757, ID: 070119-F-0000R-101

Celebrating the end of World War I with a parade in New York City

Library of Congress, ID: ggbain 27744

Charles Lindbergh, St. Louis, Missouri, 1923

Library of Congress, ID: 2002722130

Colonel George Barker, Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair and Brigadier General Eisenhower studying situation maps, Camp Polk, Louisiana, 1941

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary ID #64-57-6

Company E, 314th Engineers, 89th Division, making rolling barbed wire entanglements

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 285377

Doud "Icky" Dwight Eisenhower

Eisenhower National Historic Site, ID: EISE 15817

Duke Ellington (second from left) at William P. Gottlieb's home, Maryland, 1941

Library of Congress, ID: LC-GLB13- 0235

Dwight D. Eisenhower and other officers at Camp Colt Headquarters

Eisenhower National Historic Site, ID: ENHS 1021. Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 63-584-1

Eisenhower and Free French General Henri Honore Giraud salute the flags of both nations at Allied headquarters in Algiers, Algeria, 1942

Library of Congress, LC-USW33- 026191-C

Father reading newspaper, two children viewing television

Library of Congress, ID: gsc 5a19812

First-nighters posing for the camera outside the Warners' Theater in New York City before the premiere of "Don Juan"

U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 535750

From left: Clement Attlee, Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin, seated outdoors at Berlin conference

Library of Congress, ID: 96522042

General MacArthur and Major Eisenhower reviewing a parade in the Philippines

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 77-18-20

German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 559369

Ike playing football

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 77-18-8

Ike's West Point graduation photo

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 64-173-2

Immigrants walking across pier from bridge, New York, Ellis Island

Library of Congress, ID: 91482188

Inauguration as President of Columbia University

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 63-185-37

Installation views

Archives of American Art

Jackie Robinson

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 6802718

Jeannette Rankin speaking from the balcony of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Library of Congress, Records of the National Woman's Party, ID: mnwp000156

Last lifeboat successfully launched from the Titanic

National Archives and Records Administration, ARC ID: 278338

Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, and Lev Kamenev - Bolshevik leaders of the Russian Revolution

New York Public Library Digital Collections, ID: 51923

Location of American Cemeteries and Monuments

National Archives and Records Administration, ARC ID: 6003977

Major Eisenhower

Eisenhower National Historic Site, ID: ENHS 1019

Major Eisenhower and Brigadier General Fox Conner in Panama

Eisenhower National Historic Site, ID: ENHS 3784

Manzanar Relocation Center, California

Library of Congress, ID: 2002695970

National Women's party headquarters, Washington, DC

Library of Congress, ID: hec 30267

Nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll

Library of Congress, 2012648160

Opening day ceremonies of SHAPE headquarters

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

Painting of General Eisenhower in U.S. Army uniform

Eisenhower National Historic Site, EISE 414

Panoramic view of supplies being brought ashore for Allied troops

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 71-243

Photograph of Eisenhower in 1926 at his family reunion immediately after his graduation

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 67-631

Photograph of Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1913

Library of Congress, ID: ncl2004002841/PP

Portrait of John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, by C.J. Fox, 1944

Eisenhower National Historic Site, ID: EISE 2936

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill in the Oval Office, with (L to R) Bennett “Champ” Clark, J. Hardin Peterson, John Rankin, Paul Cunningham, Edith N. Rogers, J.M. Sullivan, Walter George, John Stelle, Robert Wagner, (unknown) and Alben Barkley

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, ID: NPx 64-269

President Truman at Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

Harry S. Truman LIbrary and Museum, ID: 59-1101

President Truman signing National Security Act Amendment of 1949

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, ID: 58-443

Prohibition officers raiding the lunch room of 922 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC

Library of Congress, ID: cph 3b41627

Pylons at Dwight D. Eisenhower President Library and Museum

Eisenhower Foundation

RMS Lusitania

Library of Congress, ID: cph 3g13287

Residents of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, fill Jackson Square to celebrate the surrender of Japan

American Museum of Science and Energy, ID: PRO 946-24

Station KDKA's radio room

George H. Clark Radioana Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower, wearing the five-star cluster of the newly-created rank of General of the Army, pictured at his headquarters in the European Theater of Operations

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 520686

The Officers of the War Plans Division in Washington, DC, from left to right: Col. W. K. Harrison, Col. Lee S. Gerow, Brig. Gen. Robert W. Crawford, Brig. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Brig. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, Chief, Col. Thomas T. Handy, Col. Stephen H. Sherrill.

U.S. Army

The U.S. flag is lowered while the flag of the Philippines is raised during the Independence Day ceremony

Republic of the Philippines Presidential Museum and Library

The official opening of the League of Nations

National Library of Norway

The principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles: David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the United States

Library of Congress, ID: ggbain 29038

The whole convoy, Utah

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 98-3-140

Top: German officers sign unconditional surrender, Reims, France; Bottom: Allied force leaders at the signing

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, ID: 195337

U.S. Liberty ship Robert Rowan explodes off the coast of Gela, Sicily, July 11, 1943

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID:531165

United Nations Headquarters

Library of Congress, ID: ny0948

United We Are Strong, United We Will Win Poster

Library of Congress, ID: cph 3g12529

View of the judges' panel during testimony at the Nuremberg Trials

Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University

Volunteers of America soup kitchen in Washington, DC

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, ID: 53227-(293)

Wedding portrait

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 62-322

Zimmerman telegram decrypted and translated

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

"And Now the Super-Duper?" political cartoon on the H-Bomb

State Historical Society of Missouri, Collection Number 71

"Guard Your Freedom - Protect Your Rights" and other similar posters were designed to promote American values overseas

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 5729965

NATO, 1951 - A Coalition United For Peace, E-Memorial Pivotal Moment Film

Winning the Presidency, 1952 - Daring All For Our Country, E-Memorial Pivotal Moment Film

Authentication page for an official copy of the NATO treaty, signed and sealed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson

State Department/U.S. Diplomacy Center

Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby talks with Auxiliary Margaret Peterson and Captain Elizabeth Gilbert at Mitchel Field

Library of Congress, ID: 2003688487

Cover of The Secretary of State by the American Assembly

University of Michigan

David Eisenhower at the entrance to Camp David, 1960

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, ID: 67-388-1

Double-stranded DNA helix

U.S. Department of Energy

Edward R. Murrow

Ad for Pan American Coffee Bureau in LIFE magazine, pg. 59

Wikimedia Commons

Eisenhower standing before the U.N. General Assembly

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 72-595-11

Honoring his famous "I Shall Go To Korea" campaign promise, President-elect Eisenhower reviews troops of the Republic of Korea's Capitol Division during his visit in December 1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 77-18-867

Honoring his famous "I Shall Go To Korea" campaign promise, President-elect Eisenhower reviews troops of the Republic of Korea's Capitol Division during his visit in December 1952

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 520995

Iran-News Poster

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 6948849

Joseph Stalin, ca. 1942

Library of Congress, ID: owi2001045684/PP

Photo from LIFE magazine of television screen showing Richard Nixon delivering his "Checkers" speech

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 16916012

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Coronation portrait, 1953

Library and Archives Canada, ID: 3242153

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles with President Eisenhower

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 594350

Senator Pat McCarran

Library of Congress, ID: hec2008009249

Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

"Any Route Figured Out?" political cartoon on Eisenhower Doctrine

The State Historical Society of Missouri

Little Rock, 1957 – The Civil Rights Battleground,
E-Memorial Pivotal Moment Film

Space Race, 1958 - Launching America’s Era of Space Exploration, E-Memorial Pivotal Moment Film

Waging Peace, 1953 - Fighting To End All War,
E-Memorial Pivotal Moment Film

A cutaway diagram of Explorer I

NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Collection

A worker in a Naval Supply Depot warehouse loads small items into baskets that are equipped with coded microchips for inventory control purposes

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 6442600

Accompanied by his medical team, President Eisenhower made his first public appearance following a heart attack

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 72-1511-9

Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union - A Proclamation

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 1959-08-21-Proclamation #3309

Affiliates of the People to People International program, John Hanes and Ed Lipscom call on President Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 72-2245-1 (NPS)

Arkansas Governor Faubus besieged by newsmen following his two hour conference with President Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 67-178-9

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., 1961

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 7430728

Audio clip of Eisenhower addressing nation regarding Central High School

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

Begum Liaquat Ali Khan Meets James Killian, shown here at the far right during his tenure as the president of MIT

Department of State, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Disneyland aerial view, Anaheim, California

USC Regional History Photo Collection

Dr. Jonas Salk with his presidential citation presented by Eisenhower in recognition of his extraordinary achievement, April 22, 1955

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 72-1322-4

Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower LIbrary, ID: 65-766-1

Earl Warren

Library of Congress, ID: cph 3a41979

Eisenhower Fellowships logo

Eisenhower family at Christmas

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 72-1574-1

Eisenhower signing legislation authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Air Force Academy

U.S. Air Force Academy McDermott Library Archives

Elementary students at an African-American school in Washington, DC

Library of Congress, ID: fsa 8d20301

Enlargement of the 20-dollar bill

Wikimedia Commons

Fidel Castro arrives at MATS Terminal, Washington, DC

Library of Congress, ID: 2004672759

Heads of state of member SEATO nations, Manila, Philippines, October 24, 1966

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, ID: C-3638-6

Heidi and her master take a walk along opposite sides of the White House fence, March 11, 1959

National Park Service, ID: 72-3010-2

Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Memorial near Parliament Building in Budapest

Wikimedia Commons

John Marshall Harlan, II

Wikimedia Commons

Letter from Linda Kelly, Sherry Bane, and Mickie Mattson to President Eisenhower regarding Elvis Presley

White House Central Files/Eisenhower Administration

Map of the Taiwan Strait

University of Texas at Austin

McDonald's store #1 located west of Chicago, Illinois

Library of Congress, ID: 2011631143

Nixon and Khrushchev stand in front the exhibit during the exchange

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 16916096

Page 2 from Eisenhower's marked up reading copy of his "Farewell Address" (Excerpts from Eisenhower's "Farewell Address" are inscribed on the memorial)

Dwight D. Eisenhower LIbrary

Potter Stewart, January 28, 1976

Library of Congress, ID: 2002721286

President Eisenhower at a White House press conference

Eisenhower National Historic Site, EISE 1322/Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 72-2276-1

President Eisenhower giving a televised speech about science and national security

Library of Congress, ID: 2012649173

President Eisenhower on the reviewing stand with his grandchildren, Anne and David Eisenhower; and Vice President Nixon with his daughters, Julie and Tricia Nixon (Excerpts from Eisenhower's "Second Inaugural Address" are inscribed on the memorial)

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential LIbrary, ID: 67-174-4

President John F. Kennedy and former President General Dwight D. Eisenhower meet at Camp David

John F. Kennedy Library, Accession Number AR6533-B

Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 306-PSD-65-1882

Ship passing through the Suez Canal

Library of Congress, ID: matpc 23043

Sign for the Interstate Highway System, saluting President Eisenhower, who initiated the system in the 1950s

Library of Congress, ID: 2011633914

Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter, Tallahassee, Florida

State Library and Archives of Florida

St. Lawrence Seaway

Weber State University Stewart Library Digital Collections

Steel sculpture "The Sentinels of Justice" at the Charles Evans Whittaker U.S. Courthouse, Kansas City, Missouri

Library of Congress, ID: highsm 11324

Street rally in New York City under joint sponsorship of NAACP and Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union (District 65) in protest of the slaying of Emmett Till

Library of Congress, ID: cph 3c21590

Television and infrared observation satellite (TIROS) transmitted the first television picture from space

NASA

The Sputnik 1 satellite on a rigging truck in the assembly shop

NASA

Unfurling the new 49-star flag

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 72-2933-2

Video clip of Eisenhower's Inauguration (Excerpts from Eisenhower's "First Inaugural Address" are inscribed on the memorial)

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ARC ID: 37025

Video clip of President Eisenhower speaking at Geneva airport before the Summit

Internet Archive

Volunteers track the flight paths of aircraft

Library of Congress, ID: fsa 8b06207

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Library of Congress, ID: cph 3b07877

William Rogers and Lawrence Walsh witness President Eisenhower signing the Civil Rights Bill

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, ID: 72-3417-1

Air Force file photo of the first launch of a Trident missile, January 18, 1977, Cape Canaveral, Florida

Naval Historical Center

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Betty Friedan

Library of Congress, ID: cph 3c15884

Dwight D. Eisenhower in retirement

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, ID: 77-18-1502

Funeral services for Dwight D. Eisenhower, Washington National Cathedral

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 194283

Library at Eisenhower Foundation

Eisenhower Foundation

Packer's coach, Vince Lombardi, making a point to an official at the Coliseum

Herald-Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library, ID: LAPL00048933

Place of Meditation

Eisenhower Foundation

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, look on

Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential LIbrary

Rachel Carson, 1944

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Digital Library

Signing of the Voting Rights Act with President Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President's Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC

Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, ID: A1030-17a

View of Crowd at 1963 March on Washington

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, ID: 542045