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Archive for 'Research'Motown Was Not AfraidSo many songs, so many lawsuits. As February brings a plethora of romantic tunes to the airwaves and to people’s hearts, a copyright case recalls how one of the most popular Motown creations was alleged to have been plagiarized from another source. When Baby Love was sung by popular “girl group” The Supremes, it became [...] Posted by Katie Dishman on February 14, 2013, under NARA Coast to Coast, NARA Staff Favorites, Research. 2013 Regional Residency Fellowship: Request for ProposalsPhotograph of Mrs. Adelaide Minogue Checking Humidity Recorder in Stacks, 1942 (National Archives Identifier: 3493247) The National Archives, with the generous support of the Foundation for the National Archives, is now inviting proposals for the 2013 Regional Residency Fellowship Program. The Residency Fellowship Program gives researchers the opportunity to conduct original research using records held at [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on January 23, 2013, under NARA Coast to Coast, National Archives Fellowship, Research. Help Our Curators Find Signatures in the RecordsJennifer Johnson, an exhibit curator at NARA, would love your help finding records in the National Archives with signatures. She’s working on an exhibit and would love your suggestions. At the National Archives, we have a range of signatures from the infamous (Lizzie Borden), to signatures of individuals before they were famous (Julia Child’s OSS [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on January 16, 2013, under Online Research, Research. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with a new eBookToday’s post comes from Stephanie Greenhut, Education Technology Specialist, in the Education and Public Programs division. We’re going to ring in the new year here at the National Archives with a special celebration to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Visitors to the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, can [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on December 19, 2012, under Education, Events, Research, Social Media (Web 2.0). Tell Us What You Think!How do you like to get your news and information from the National Archives? Do you have access to what you need? How can we serve you better? Tell us what you think! Take this 10-minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/naraexternal The survey will be available until midnight, December 6. Thank you! * Update! The survey will now be [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on December 5, 2012, under Online Research, Photographs, Questions, Research. Rolling into CourtAs Halloween approaches, our thoughts turn to candy — and court cases. A sweet combination of both can be found in Record Group 21, the U.S. District Court, the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago. Civil case number 47C1770 was filed in 1947, when the Life Savers Corporation sued the Curtiss Candy Company for trademark infringement. [...] Posted by Katie Dishman on October 19, 2012, under NARA Coast to Coast, Research. Next DC-Area Researchers Meeting on September 28, 2012Researchers are invited to the next researcher meeting on Friday, September 28, 2012 to meet with Research Services Executive Bill Mayer. The meeting will be held at the National Archives at College Park (Archives II) at 1:00 PM in lecture rooms B and C. See you there! Posted by Mary (admin) on September 19, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Research. Family Tree Friday: Census Bureau exhibit at the 1926 U.S. Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Part IToday’s post comes from guest blogger Doug Remley, who is a student research room technician in Research Services (RD-DC) at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Doug offers a history lesson on how the Census Bureau celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Future posts will include some of the unique findings [...] Posted by John on August 31, 2012, under Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Research. Mixtapes in Da NangToday’s post comes from Pascal Massinon, recipient of the 2012 National Archives Legislative Archives Fellowship. Pascal is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, and will be using records at the National Archives to research his dissertation topic, “Home Taping: Participant Listeners and the Political Culture of Home Recording [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on August 28, 2012, under National Archives Fellowship, Research. Family Tree Friday: War of 1812 certificates of dischargeIn this post I’d like to highlight a particular set of records that probably don’t get as much attention as they deserve: certificates of discharge for Regular Army soldiers from the War of 1812. The most likely reason for the slight attention these wonderful records receive is likely the fact that only a small portion [...] Posted by John on August 10, 2012, under Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Research. |
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