Anniversary Noontime Film Series
From the Vaults: Newsreel Theater

Thursday, August 6, at noon (60 minutes)
William G. McGowan Theater, Washington, DC, building

Before television, newsreels provided sights and sounds of the day's events. Those flickering black-and-white images still have the power to draw us into history. Today we present a selection of commercial and Government newsreels from the motion picture holdings of the National Archives.

“Discovering Archival Treasures: The National Archives Expert Series”

August 7, 14, 21 at noon
Jefferson Room, Washington, DC, building

See a selection of treasures close up and meet National Archives staff experts who will share facts and anecdotes about their personal favorites discovered, and now uncovered, from among the agency's holdings coast to coast.

• Friday, August 7, Amy Bunk, Director of the Legal Affairs and Policy Staff, Federal Register, "The Electoral College"
• Friday, August 14, Tom Nastick, public programs producer, Center for the National Archives Experience, "The USIA Film The School at Rincon Santo"
• Friday, August 21, Michael White, managing editor, Federal Register, "How a Bill Becomes a Public Law"

Anniversary Noontime Literary Lecture Series

Armchair Warriors: Private Citizens, Popular Press, and the Rise of American Power,
by Joel R. Davidson
August 12, at noon
Jefferson Room, Washington, DC, building

Armchair Warriors is a history of the interplay between the popular media's coverage of the nation's wars and the perceptions of ordinary Americans regarding military issues from the Spanish-American war through the Cold War. Using hundreds of letters from average Americans found in the National Archives and Presidential libraries, Joel Davidson explores a previously unexamined aspect of popular participation in America's rise to global dominance as these "armchair warriors" devote their creative energies to finding the means and methods of furthering national military goals and sending their ideas directly to military and political leaders.