As we put 2020 into the past, we’re taking a look back on the most popular posts published this year. Thank you to the National Archives staff who helped us share our love of history.
10. The fourth installment of a series about unratified constitutional amendments, Unratified Amendments: Regulating Child Labor, explored an amendment proposed during the Progressive Era to regulate working children.
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9. As part of our series commemorating the anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Amendment, ninth place goes to 19th Amendment at 100: Mary Church Terrell.
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8. February’s Facial Hair Friday: the First President Not Clean-shaven was all about the first President with facial hair: John Quincy Adams.
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7. In seventh place is Amending the Electoral College: The 12th Amendment, which looked at the origins of the Electoral College and how it has been changed.
6. Little Boy: The First Atomic Bomb from Michael J. Hancock, marked the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
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5. Unratified Amendments—the kick-off to the series about amendments that Congress proposed but were not ratified by a sufficient number of states—delved deeper into what was supposed to be the original first amendment.
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4. In celebration of the movie musical version of Hamilton, My Name is Alex Hamilton highlights two Hamilton-related documents from our holdings.
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3. In the third spot is Lori Norris’s post on the World War II–era actress who invented Wi-Fi: Hedy Lamarr.
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2. Coming in at number two is Michael J. Hancock’s look at the The 1824 Presidential Election and the “Corrupt Bargain.”
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1. Not surprising after the year we’ve had, the most-viewed post published in 2020 was an update to an earlier post from Megan Huang, “Wear a Mask and Save Your Life: The 1918 Flu Pandemic.”
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Want to know what the most viewed posts in 2020 were? All these posts were published before this year but still get a ton of views:
Thanks for all of these articles. Best wishes for 2021.