National Archives July and August Events
National Archives July and August Events
National Archives Holds Free Records Programs in July and August
Washington, DC. . . This summer, the National Archives holds research
and genealogy programs highlighting records from its holdings. These
programs are free and open to the public, and will be held at the
National Archives Building in Washington, DC, which is located on the
National Mall and is fully accessible. For programs in the McGowan
Theater, please use the Special Events entrance on Constitution Avenue
at 7th Street, NW. For programs in the Research Center, please use the
Pennsylvania Avenue entrance, between 7th and 9th Streets, NW. The
building is Metro accessible on the Yellow and Green lines,
Archives/Navy Memorial/Penn Quarter Station.
The August 11 program will be live streamed on the US National Archives
Know Your Records playlist on YouTube. Presentation materials will
be available online.
Black Sailors and Citizenship in the Era of the Gag Rule
Thursday, July 14, at noon, Room G-25, Research Center (Penn. Ave.
Entrance)
Kate Masur, professor at Northwestern University, will discuss race,
rights, and citizenship between the 1820s and the Civil War and her book
project, “Police Powers, the Anti-Slavery Movement, and the Origins of
the Fourteenth Amendment.”
DC Emancipation Act
Thursday, August 11, at 2 p.m., William G. McGowan Theater & YouTube
(Constitution Ave. entrance)
In 1862, the DC Emancipation Act freed enslaved persons in the District
of Columbia. Damani Davis, archivist, discusses petitions filed by
owners and slaves under the Act.
FREE RECORDS TALKS ON YOUTUBE
Know Your Records has made available online extensive videos, handouts,
and presentations from our live programs. Learn how to do research at
the National Archives using Federal holdings including census,
immigration, and military service, and pension records. See the Know
Your Records playlist.
SAVE THE DATE - Virtual Genealogy Fair October 26 and 27, 2016
Join us for the annual National Archives virtual Genealogy Fair via
webcast on YouTube, October 26 and 27, 2016. Speakers include genealogy
experts from National Archives locations across the nation. Revisit
last year’s popular event online. Video recordings and handouts
for all ten sessions are available.
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments