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Cartoonist Clifford Berryman on ThanksgivingPolitical cartoonist Clifford Berryman made use of Thanksgiving throughout his career to highlight timely political issues near the holiday. Below are two examples of his Thanksgiving-themed cartoons: These and other cartoons by Clifford Berryman can be found in Record Group 46 in the series “Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, 1896-1949″ (ARC Identifier 306080) as part of the Center [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on November 21, 2012, under Archives I, History. Plumage of Pomp: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935The past Saturday, I was visiting the Florida Keys and took a bike tour of parts of Islamorada, a village which spans several islands. The meeting place for the tour was a memorial to the victims of the 1935 Labor Day hurricane located near mile marker 82 of U.S. Route 1. Our guide was very knowledgeable [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on November 5, 2012, under Archives II, Civil Records, History. Halloween at the Tule Lake Relocation Center70 years ago today, Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Relocation Center celebrated a harvest festival by wearing costumes. At the Tule Lake Relocation Center, later the Tule Lake Segregation Center, over 24,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned because of suspected disloyalty to the U.S. government under Executive Order 9066. Starting in 1943, Tule Lake became a [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on October 31, 2012, under Archives II, Civil Records, History. Skateboarding into CombatMarines skateboarding into combat… sounds like something out of a Back to the Future sequel, right? Well, as a matter of fact, the U.S. military experimented with using skateboards in combat situations. In the March 1999 exercises known as Urban Warrior ’99, the military experimented with the potential use of skateboards to detect trip wires [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on August 17, 2012, under Archives II, Military Records. Happy World Red Cross Red Crescent Day!Today is Henry Dunant’s birthday, which is also celebrated as World Red Cross Red Crescent Day. In honor of that holiday, I thought I would mention some Red Cross records of historical interest that can be found at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland (Archives II) in Collection ANRC, Records of the American National [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on May 8, 2012, under Archives II, Civil Records. Political Sensitivity at the Peak of the Cold WarIn February 1963, the United Nations (UN) held the UN Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas (UNCAST) in Geneva, Switzerland. This conference, held at the peak of the Cold War, brought together about 1,600 delegates from 96 countries, including delegations from both the West and [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on March 22, 2012, under Archives II, Civil Records, Reference. Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI)Given the recent appearance of the development company Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) in the news regarding the case of Alan Gross, the development worker who was jailed in Cuba in 2009 accused of working for U.S. intelligence services, I thought it would be worthwhile to mention that records relating to development projects of DAI can [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on February 16, 2012, under Archives II, Civil Records. The CIA in GuatemalaIn June 1954, Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was overthrown in a coup that was orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and carried out by the Guatemalan exile Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas. Arbenz was targeted in large part because of his land reform policies that affected U.S. companies, namely the United Fruit Company. There [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on February 13, 2012, under Archives II, Military Records. Uncle Walt, Papa, and The Prom Queen of SoulWhat do Walt Disney, Ernest Hemingway, and Whitney Houston have in common? They all served with the American Red Cross! Disney served as a Red Cross ambulance driver in France during World War I. Likewise, Hemingway served as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. In fact, Hemingway’s service was the inspiration for [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on December 14, 2011, under Archives II, Civil Records. Thanksgiving in Rome, 1944During World War II, the American National Red Cross (ANRC) provided many services to enlisted men serving abroad in Europe and elsewhere. Importantly, they set up clubs for enlisted men to enjoy for recreational purposes in order to take a break from their wartime duties. One of these clubs was in Rome. In 1944, the [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on November 23, 2011, under Archives II, Civil Records. |
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