Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. All summer long, a group of men huddled in a stifling hot room in Philadelphia (Madison almost passed out from the heat) to develop the framework for a government that would govern the newly independent states of America. There was … Continue reading What Franklin thought of the Constitution
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Behind the barbed wire of the Japanese internment camp at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming, a few men received their orders to report for duty. It was 1944, and they had been drafted. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor … Continue reading The draft dodgers of 1944
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. We've all seen the commercials talking about sleep number beds, and we here at POH think RJ hit it on the nose. Apparently for this family, nine is their sleep number. As to what this cozy family is actually up … Continue reading Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/sFAVKJAOWSc?fs=1&hl=en_US Just in time for Constitution Day on September 17, acting Chief of Reference at the National Archives Trevor Plante literally takes viewers inside the National Archives vaults to see some of his favorite rarely-displayed documents including the following: The … Continue reading The documents that built the Constitution
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Each of the German victories, and there were a surprising number of these, made [Adolf Hitler] happy, but he was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from … Continue reading How to annoy Hitler
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. John "Black Jack" Pershing turns 150 today. Of the man there is too much to be said in a blog post like this—there was that whole bit as the leader of the American Expeditionary Forces with World War I, for … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Black Jack
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. There was heated debate in the press room today as we struggled to marry our dedication to Facial Hair Friday and our latest "Inside the Vaults" video. Fortunately for us, Jon White, one of the film's featured Citizen-Archivists, just … Continue reading Citizen Archivists and the bearded miner
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. The actual caption to this quaint collection of cowboy card sharks is quite the mouthful itself: "Orient Saloon at Bisbee, Arizona... Faro game in full blast. Recognized: Left to right-Tony Downs (standing with derby) part owner; Doyle, a concert hall … Continue reading Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
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
