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  • World War II Code Girls: What’s in a Name?

    By Dena Lombardo | National Archives News WASHINGTON, March 20, 2020 — The National Archives in Washington, DC, recently hosted “World War II Code Girls: What’s in a Name,” and archives specialist Cara Moore Lebonick took the audience through the process of tracking down “Code Girl”...

  • Confederate Slave Payrolls Shed Light on Lives of 19th-Century African American Families

    By Victoria Macchi | National Archives News WASHINGTON, March 4, 2020 — For all of March 1862, a man named Ben cooked for the Confederate military stationed at Pinners Point, VA, earning 60 cents a day that would go to his owner. EnlargeDownload Link The enslaved men, women, and...

  • National Archives Helps 100-Year-Old Tuskegee Airman Achieve General Rank

    By Katherine Terry | National Archives News SAINT LOUIS, February 28, 2020 — A career that spanned nearly eight decades brought Charles McGee from World War II pilot to brigadier general; from would-be college student to 100-year-old veteran honored at the White House this month....

  • Anniversary of the Battle for Iwo Jima

    From February 19 to March 26, 1945, the United States Navy and Marine Corps executed Operation Detachment, the code name for the 36-day American invasion and capture of the heavily fortified Japanese island of Iwo Jima. The tiny volcanic island represented a critical staging area for the United...

  • Journalist Shares Stories Behind Civil Rights Cold Cases

    By Victoria Macchi | National Archives News WASHINGTON, February 20, 2020 — For investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell, it was a book 30 years in the making. At its core was a series of racially motivated killings in Mississippi that took decades to be resolved. Enlarge The 16th...

  • Kirk Douglas, 1916–2020

    Actor Kirk Douglas, who died on February 5, 2020, at age 103, became famous in Hollywood, but he was also a regular in Washington, DC. The U.S. Government–produced Cold War–era film Let Poland be Poland featured Douglas (watch here thanks to the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw; also available to view in...

  • Camping Out With the Constitution

    By Victoria Macchi | National Archives News WASHINGTON, January 31, 2020 — Dozens of children spent the first night in February with their families and new friends sleeping just a few feet away from the most valuable documents in U.S. history during the most recent National Archives...

  • Student Journalists Advocate for Press Freedom on Campus

    By Dena Lombardo | National Archives News WASHINGTON, January 31, 2020 — The National Archives in Washington, DC, hosted a panel discussion among current and former student journalists who addressed issues surrounding First Amendment rights on college campuses. The event was held in partnership...

  • All-Girl BSA Troops Visit National Archives, See 'Rightfully Hers' Exhibit

    By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News WASHINGTON, January 31, 2020 — As America celebrates the centennial year of the passage of the 19th Amendment, the National Archives has been a hub of activities and events honoring the occasion. For the Scouts of BSA Troops 214 and 2018—who hail...

  • ‘One Woman, One Vote’ Anniversary Screening Honors Womens Suffrage Centennial

    By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News WASHINGTON, January 29, 2020 — As part of its celebration of the centennial year of the passage of the 19th Amendment, the National Archives hosted a 25th-anniversary screening of the 1995 PBS film One Woman, One Vote, which documents the struggle for...
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