Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Seventy years ago this week, the German blitz on London began, devastating the British capital. The Blitz brought World War II to England's home front. For 57 consecutive days and nights the Blitz raged on. All told the indiscriminate bombings … Continue reading The London Blitz
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Over a half-century ago this month, nine black students entered the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, escorted by troops of the 101st Airborne Division. The enrollment of the nine students was the historic response to the 1954 … Continue reading Eisenhower and the Little Rock Nine
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. One hundred nine years ago, William McKinley was shot. Though one of the wounds from the bullet would end his life, it wasn't the first time McKinley had been shot at. Forty years earlier, he was a soldier in the … Continue reading From Civil War to world stage
Americans love Paris. They even ended the Revolutionary War by writing and signing the Treaty of Paris in that city on September 3, 1783. War brought other Americans to Paris. Almost 150 years later, it was home to Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's experience in Paris was colored by war. He arrived … Continue reading Hemingway, JFK! What else do I have to say?!
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Chris Staats managed to not only tap the Rockies with his caption, but tap our funny bone, too. Those poor horses would be glad to take a Clydesdale waltz through those untapped glaciers and barley fields, but instead they're stuck … Continue reading Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Gerald Ford called April of 1975 the "cruelest month." Having inherited a Presidency and the closing act of an unpopular war, Gerald Ford convened his National Security Council in April 1975 to discuss the final evacuation of Saigon. The North Vietnamese … Continue reading Transcripts on the evacuation of Saigon
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. "They say that in the Army, the chow is mighty fine, A chicken jumped off the table and started marking time. Oh Lord, I wanna go, Oh Lord I wanna go Oh Lord I wanna go home." There's talk in … Continue reading ‘Waist’ not, want not
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Forty-seven years ago this past Saturday, Martin Luther King, Jr., touched a nation with his inspiring words. Just six months later in February of 1964, one small but powerful word was added to the House version of the divisive Civil Rights Act. Representative Howard Smith of Virginia … Continue reading Sex…and the Civil Rights Bill
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at center. (542015 / 306-SSM-4C(51)15)This Saturday marks the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a dream" speech. I was looking through ARC at the pictures of how many people participated, when I … Continue reading Facial Hair Friday: In honor of MLK
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Rebecca, it may be time to quit your day job. You have wowed another one of our guest judges, Kathleen Williams, Executive Director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The actual caption for this fund-raising fanatic? "The 'Human … Continue reading Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
