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“Remembering Vietnam” Exhibition Opening: See Vietnam Through the Eyes of a Child
Frances O’Roark Dowell's book "Shooting the Moon" tells the story of 12-year-old Jamie, whose brother enlists in the Army and is sent to Vietnam.
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s Hardball, will discuss his biography of Robert F. Kennedy.
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"Remembering Vietnam" Exhibition Opening: Women Vietnam Veterans
In her book "Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Story," Vietnam veteran SGM Donna Lowery discuss the participation of American military women (non-nurses) during the Vietnam War.
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"Remembering Vietnam" Exhibition Opening: Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton
"Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton" relates the story of Air Force fighter pilot James Shively, who spent six years in Hanoi prison camps after he was shot down over North Vietnam.
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Documents That Changed the Way We Live
Professor Joseph Janes examines dozens of stories that describe documents via their creation, motivation, influence, and connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends.
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We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
In George William Van Cleve’s book, we encounter a sharply divided America and a Congress that grudgingly agreed to support the 1787 Constitutional Convention to replace the Articles of Confederation.
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Liza Mundy’s Code Girls is the astonishing, untold story of the young American women who cracked key Axis codes, helping to secure Allied victory and revolutionizing the field of cryptanalysis.
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The Vietnam War with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick show clips from their PBS documentary series, The Vietnam War in conjunction with the November 10 opening of National Archives exhibit.
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The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943: The War in the West, Vol. II
In James Holland’s The Allies Strike Back, Germany’s invasion of Russia unfolds in the east while in the west, the Americans formally enter the war.
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Women and the Supreme Court
Explore the legacy of the four women who have served and the 726 women who have argued before the United States Supreme Court.