August 2009
“Discovering Archival Treasures: The National Archives Expert Series”
Date TBA 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.
Anniversary Noontime Film Series
Date TBA
William G. McGowan Theater, Washington, DC, building
Each month a film or collection of films from the vast motion picture holdings of the National Archives will be featured in the William G. McGowan Theater.
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.
