By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News
WASHINGTON, October 18, 2019 — Thomas Paine's open call for American independence from Great Britain in Common Sense inspired revolutionaries across the 13 colonies to revolt against the crown. The ripple of insurrection across the Atlantic earned Paine...
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By James Worsham | National Archives News WASHINGTON, October 15, 2019 — The Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), which resolves disputes over accessibility to government records and acts as Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ombudsman to the Federal Government, turned 10...
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National Archives research rooms are closed or close early on the days listed below. Normal hours will resume the following business day. You can access some NARA holdings online. See our nationwide network of facilities to check research room hours at each location. The...
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Enlarge Anne Gardiner Perkins discusses her book on some of the first women students at Yale University during a talk at the National Archives in Washington, DC, October 8, 2019. By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News WASHINGTON, October 15, 2019 — Decades after the 19th Amendment...
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By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News WASHINGTON, October 7, 2019 — From its nascent roots in the Jamestown colony, tobacco has been a staple of the American economy, a Golden Goose for the tobacco industry, and the fountainhead of an ongoing national public health crisis. But rather than...
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By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News WASHINGTON, October 2, 2019 — Peace Corps volunteers have toiled around the globe for more than half a century, often under demanding conditions, to help make the world a better place. With over 200,000 Peace Corps volunteers returned from service...
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By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News WASHINGTON, September 27, 2019 — On Friday, September 20, the National Archives presented a noontime dual screening of Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema and Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors in the William G. McGowan Theater. The...
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By James Worsham | National Archives News WASHINGTON, September 25, 2019 — Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch says that the separation of powers that the Constitution created for the young United States of America ensures against any of the three branches becoming dominant. But, he...
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By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News WASHINGTON, September 20, 2019 — The National Archives hosted an advance performance of 19: The Musical in the William G. McGowan Theater on September 18. The musical explores the suffragist movement through the lens of Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman...
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By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News WASHINGTON, September 18, 2019 — Thirty-one new United States naturalized citizens took the oath of allegiance yesterday at the National Archives Rotunda in Washington, DC. Sworn in just steps away from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,...