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Most U.S. Presidents stay active while in office: the golfing, the basketball games, the White House bowling alley. Their dogs, though—they take their sports even more seriously. There are the tennis balls, sure, and also swimming, hiking, and being exhaustingly adorable. You can learn about the...
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By Angela Tudico | National Archives News Enlarge NASA launch coverage, January 2014. National Archives, Electronic Records of the Office of the President Obama Administration (NAID 231832267). View in National Archives Catalog WASHINGTON, November 21, 2022 — A new, modernized National...
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Golf, jogging, horseback riding, Hoover Ball—U.S. Presidents have often found a way to be involved in sports. And luckily for the public, it's all documented in the holdings of the National Archives. You can learn about the impact of sports in the exhibit All American: The Power of Sports, which...
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By Angela Tudico | National Archives News Enlarge Chinese Exclusion Act case files being digitized by a scanner donated by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives at Riverside staff.) RIVERSIDE, November 15, 2022 — More than 2,200...
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By Victoria Macchi | National Archives News Enlarge Guests salute during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., November 11, 2011. Photo by Pete Souza. View in National Archives Catalog WASHINGTON, November 9, 2022 — As the...
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Soccer. The game transcends language barriers and functions as a tool for diplomacy, recreation, and competition. It's the most popular sport in the world, though professional soccer—widely known as football outside of the United States—only gained traction in the U.S. in the 1990s and early...
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By Angela Tudico | National Archives News Enlarge Growth in Total Number of Digitized Pages in the National Archives Catalog, 2018-2022. COLLEGE PARK, October 26, 2022 — The National Archives Catalog now contains more than 200 million digitized pages. The Office of Innovation...
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At the height of the Cold War, for two weeks in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of thermonuclear war. Earlier that fall, the Soviet Union, under orders from Premier Nikita Khrushchev, began to secretly deploy a nuclear strike force in Cuba, just 90 miles from the United States....
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By Angela Tudico | National Archives News Enlarge Fulbright Scholar Cancy Chu in the Heritage Science Research and Testing Lab at the National Archives at College Park. Photo by Lindsay Oakley. COLLEGE PARK, October 5, 2022 — The National Archives welcomed its first Fulbright...