Archive for April, 2011
Thursday Caption Contest
Congratulations to LisaLou! Your caption tugged the entrepreneurial heartstrings of guest judge Suzanne Isaacs, who makes sure all the great images we use are available to the public in ARC. Check your e-mail for 15% off in the eStore! This photo was suggested to us by Laura of the Foundation for the National Archives. She thought [...]
Posted by Hilary on April 28, 2011, under Photo Caption Contest, Uncategorized.
Tags: ARC 518271, caption contest, Foundation for the NAtional Archives, Indiana, Laura, LisaLou, mobile library, Suzanne Isaacs, WPA
Comments: 16
The Queen’s Scones for a Wedding Breakfast
Welcome to our first “What’s Cooking Wednesday” here at Pieces of History! We’re excited to make this first post in a series celebrating our new exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” which looks at the role that the Federal Government has taken in Americans’ lives regarding food production, safety, advertising, and nutrition. It opens June 10, [...]
Posted by Hilary on April 27, 2011, under - Presidents, Letters in the National Archives, Unusual documents.
Tags: Balmoral Castle, Eisenhower, food, recipes, royal wedding, scones, What's Cooking Uncle Sam?
Comments: 2
Pennsylvania Avenue Hotline
Today’s guest post comes from David Coleman, associate professor at the University of Virginia and Chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. On April 28, W.W. Norton will publish volumes 7 and 8 in the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson series. (The original tapes are in [...]
Posted by Hilary on April 26, 2011, under - Civil Rights, - Cold War, - Presidents, - Spies and Espionage, - The 1960s.
Tags: David Coleman, debt ceiling, JFK, LBJ, Miller Center, President Johnson, secret tapes, White House
Comments: none
An Egg-centric White House Tradition
Today’s an eggs-ellent day in Washington, DC, for young people! It’s the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, where hundreds of children gather to roll eggs and play games on the South Lawn of the President’s House. But the tradition did not start at the White House. It began on the lawns and terraces of the [...]
Posted by Hilary on April 25, 2011, under - Civil War, - Cold War, - Great Depression, - Presidents, - World War I, - World War II, News and Events.
Tags: Capitol, Easter, Egg Roll, Presidents, Prologue magazine, White House
Comments: none
Facial Hair Friday: Shiloh and Sideburns
There’s something appealing about this pensive photograph of Ulysses S. Grant, from his somber clothes to his wistful gaze. He doesn’t seem like someone who saw some of the bloodiest fighting at Shiloh. Unlike many of our other featured Facial Hairs of the Civil War era, Grant’s beard is not a runaway avalanche of hair, nor is it [...]
Posted by Hilary on April 22, 2011, under Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: beard, civil war, Leavenworth, Lee, President, surrender, Ulysses S. Grant
Comments: 1