From College Park to Edinburgh: 30 Days with the National Collection of...
Today’s post is written by Tom McAnear, a processing archivist in College Park. Tom is participating in the Archival Development Program, an in-house multi-year training course for all of NARA’s...
View ArticleLaunch of new web pages on Foreign Affairs records
To assist researchers interested in records of the Department of State and other foreign affairs agencies, the most heavily used records in the National Archives, the Textual Archives Services Division...
View ArticleInside the New Orleans Custom House
Today’s post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the first post in a three-part series. Electoral projections are a...
View ArticleOf paper cuts and ink stains: the paperwork of the Custom House
Today’s post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the second post in a three-part series. (If you missed it, the first...
View ArticleCargo and Contraband during the Civil War
Today’s post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the third post in a three-part series. (If you missed them, follow...
View ArticleSelect Confederate Records Digitization Project
Our guest blogger today is DeAnne Blanton, reference archivist at Archives I. The Archives I Reference Section is pleased to announce our in-house digitization project in honor of the Civil War...
View ArticleThe Origins and Operations of the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point
Today’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher. During the past several weeks there has been great international interest in the art works that had been in the possession of Hildebrand Gurlitt before...
View ArticleNARA launches a webpage devoted to Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg...
Today’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) launched this month a new section of its portion of the International Research Portal for Records...
View ArticleNational Archives Hosts International Research Portal for Records Related to...
Today’s post is written by Chris Naylor, Director of Textual Records for Research Services, Washington DC. The Nazis and their collaborators engaged in widespread and systematic confiscation of art and...
View ArticleFrom Scouting for Custer to Farming the Plains; The Life and Times of Hairy...
Today’s post was written by Cody White, Archivist at the National Archives at Denver. On February 28th, 1876, four Crow Indians enlisted in the U.S. Army as Indian Scouts at Fort Ellis Montana. Those...
View ArticleArnold Palmer: Record-setting Round-the-world Flyer
Today’s post is written by David Langbart, an Archivist in the Textual Records Division at the National Archives at College Park. Noted golfing great Arnold Palmer died recently. His obituaries noted...
View ArticleHow Women Look: Standards of Beauty and Female Stereotypes in Product...
Today’s post was written by Laney Stevenson, Archives Technician at the National Archives at College Park. In honor of Women’s History Month, I’ve gathered together some registered patent labels...
View ArticleWhat Women Use: Cosmetics, Hygiene Products, and Medicines
Today’s post was written by Laney Stevenson, Archives Technician at the National Archives at College Park. In honor of Women’s History Month, I’ve gathered together some registered patent labels of...
View ArticleWorld War I Foreign Policy Records, Part I: The Department of State
Today’s post is written by David Langbart, an Archivist in the Textual Records Division at the National Archives at College Park. April 6, 2017 marks the centennial of United States entry into World...
View ArticleWorld War I Foreign Policy Records, Part II: The Inquiry
Today’s post is written by David Langbart, an Archivist in the Textual Records Division at the National Archives at College Park. April 6, 2017 marks the centennial of United States entry into World...
View ArticleWorld War I Foreign Policy Records, Part III: The American Commission to...
Today’s post is written by David Langbart, an Archivist in the Textual Records Division at the National Archives at College Park. April 6, 2017 marks the centennial of United States entry into World...
View ArticleDocuments of Loss: Dave Tatsuno’s Records in the San Francisco Branch Evacuee...
Today’s post is written by Jana Leighton, an Archivist in the Electronic Records Division at the National Archives at College Park with support from Kaitlyn Crain Enriquez, Archives Technician in the...
View ArticleThe Radium Girls at the National Archives
Today’s post is written by Zachary Dabbs, Processing Archivist at the National Archives in College Park. Digitized Radioactive Documents Concerning Radium Dial Painters now in the National Archives...
View ArticleNikita Khrushchev’s Memoirs: Fallout?
Today’s post is written by David Langbart, an Archivist in the Textual Records Division at the National Archives at College Park. Three previous posts discussed the publication of the two volumes of...
View ArticleBeyond the Records in the Hub
Today’s post is by Candice Blazejak, an Archives Technician on detail at NARA’s Innovation Hub in Washington, DC Researchers and curious visitors come into National Archives facilities everyday looking...
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