National Archives motion picture preservation specialists Audrey Amidon and Heidi Holmstrom showed clips from World War II films produced by the Army Air Corps' First Motion Picture Unit. Du…
1,253 viewsDamani Davis talked about petitions filed by owners and slaves under the District of Columbia Emancipation Act. Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in April 1862, the act freed ensl…
192 viewsJohn Emond read letters from ordinary Civil War soldiers, placing the letters in the context of the war as well as the soldiers' daily lives, which he says were defined by personal hardships…
1,364 viewsFrom 1932 to 1933, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency investigated the causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Two specialists from the Center for Legislative Archives discus…
733 viewsSupervisory Archivist Neil Carmichael explained the mission of the National Declassification Center and the process of reviewing and releasing historic declassified government records to the…
241 viewsJill Newmark talked about her article “Face to Face with History” from the Fall 2009 issue of Prologue magazine. She talked about her research in the National Archives into a rarely studied …
1,013 viewsMiriam Kleiman, public affairs specialist, spoke about her research at the National Archives looking into the issue of lost Jewish assets in Swiss banks during World War II. Ms. Kleiman soli…
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