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  • Lincoln in the Pre-War Years

    By James Worsham | National Archives News WASHINGTON, September 12, 2019 — Abraham Lincoln's Civil War Presidency was one of the most tumultuous periods in the nation’s history, but so were the four years leading up to Lincoln’s election in 1860, according to the author of a major biography...

  • Eisenhower Library Exhibit Showcases 1919 Transcontinental Convoy

    By Mary Ryan | National Archives News WASHINGTON, September 6, 2019 — Sixty-two days after leaving Washington, DC, a truck convoy of 81 Army vehicles arrived in San Francisco, CA. The Transcontinental Motor Convoy had traveled 3,251 miles, averaging about six miles an hour, or 58 miles a...

  • Truman Library Begins Major Renovation Project

    By Mary Ryan | National Archives News Enlarge Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero speaks at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Library's renovation. Other guests included President Truman's oldest grandson Clifton Truman Daniel, Missouri State Senator John...

  • Biographer Defends George Mason

    By James Worsham | National Archives News WASHINGTON, August 23, 2019 — Despite his opposition to the newly drafted Constitution in 1787, George Mason was “one of the ablest constitutionalists of all time,” according to the author of a new biography of the Founding Father. Biographer William G....

  • Leaders Address Evolution of Archives Profession

    By Michael Davis | National Archives News Enlarge Archivist of the United States David Ferriero and Meredith Evans, SAA President and Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, have a public conversation about the archival profession during Archives*Records 2019. (National Archives...

  • Museum Receives Millionth Visitor of the Year

    By James Worsham and Victoria Blue | National Archives News Enlarge Archivist of the United States David Ferriero with millionth visitor Saumya Raval (left) and her family. (National Archives photo by Jeffrey Reed) WASHINGTON, August 19, 2019 — The National Archives Museum welcomed...

  • The Spies Behind Lincoln’s ‘Secret War to Save a Nation’

    By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News Enlarge Douglas Waller discusses the “secret battles” undertaken by Union agents in his book Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation. WASHINGTON, August 8, 2019 — The world’s “second oldest profession,” as it is known in the...

  • Author Investigates ‘Great Partnership’ Between Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson, Implications for the ‘Fate of the Confederacy’

    By Jonathan Marker | National Archives News Enlarge On August 6, the National Archives hosted Christian B. Keller, Professor of History at the United States Army War College, to speak about that unique bond between Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall”...

  • Toni Morrison, 1931-2019

    WASHINGTON, August 6, 2019  Enlarge Toni Morrison, 1931–2019 Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama during a White House ceremony in Washington DC, May 29, 2012. Morrison died August 5, 2019, at the age of...

  • Apollo 11 Documentary Creators Speak at National Archives for Film Screenings

    By Liam Behan | National Archives News Enlarge Astronaut Neil Armstrong gets suited up for the Apollo 11 mission. (National Archives, Record Group 255) WASHINGTON, July 26, 2019 — Fifty years after the Apollo 11 crew walked on the Moon, many memories recall scratchy television...
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