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Archive for 'NARA beyond DC/MD'Remembering Pearl HarborIn the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 71 years ago today, agencies of the U.S. government swung into action. The Army and Navy immediately went on a war footing as did American diplomats in the Department of State and at embassies and consulates around the world. Since the formal outbreak of war [...] Posted by David Langbart on December 7, 2012, under History, NARA beyond DC/MD, Presidential Libraries. Cargo and Contraband during the Civil WarToday’s post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the third post in a three-part series. (If you missed them, follow these links to the first and second posts.) Cargo – it was the main business of the New Orleans Custom House. After the [...] Posted by stegman on May 3, 2012, under Civil Records, Digital Projects, NARA beyond DC/MD. Of paper cuts and ink stains: the paperwork of the Custom HouseToday’s post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the second post in a three-part series. (If you missed it, the first post can be found here.) Today’s topic is paperwork. Paperwork was a vital part of daily life at the New Orleans Custom [...] Posted by stegman on April 26, 2012, under Civil Records, Digital Projects, NARA beyond DC/MD. Inside the New Orleans Custom HouseToday’s post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the first post in a three-part series. Electoral projections are a popular topic these days, and everyone has an opinion. In July 1860, two engineers in Louisiana exchanged their predictions on the upcoming presidential [...] Posted by stegman on April 19, 2012, under Civil Records, Digital Projects, NARA beyond DC/MD. Determining the Deposition in 1775This week in 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord were fought in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts militia and Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith’s group of British troops suffered casualties, but it is still unclear which side fired the first shot that began the American Revolution. RG 360, The Papers of the Continental Congress, compiled 1774 – [...] Posted by Monique Politowski on April 17, 2012, under Archives I, Civil Records, NARA beyond DC/MD. Transferring recordsToday’s post is written by Amber Thiele, a processing archivst with civilian textual records in College Park. Sometimes while processing textual records you find something that makes you think, “hmmm…this would get more use if it was in another part of the National Archives and Records Administration.” Usually in the Textual Archives Services Division, [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on March 13, 2012, under Archives II, Civil Records, NARA beyond DC/MD, Presidential Libraries, The Process. From a researcher’s perspectiveToday’s post is written by Aaron Mannes, a citizen researcher from the University of Maryland’s Laboratory of Computational Cultural Dynamics. He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy who is writing a dissertation on the national security role of the vice president. If you have a lot of time [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on February 21, 2012, under NARA beyond DC/MD, Presidential Libraries, Researchers, The Process. Accessing veterans’ recordsOne of the most frequent kinds of research requests we receive concerns gaining access to military veterans’ service records. To do our part to commemorate Veterans Day tomorrow, we’ve asked Theresa Fitzgerald of the Archives’ National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis to write a post on everything you ever wanted to know about accessing [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on November 10, 2011, under Genealogy, Military Records, NARA beyond DC/MD, Reference, Researchers, The Process. |
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