On May 20, 1873, Jacob W. Davis received patent #139,121 for an "improvement in fastening pocket openings." Davis's improvement consisted of "the employment of a metal rivet or eyelet at each edge of the pocket opening to prevent the ripping of the seam at those points." Less than a year later, on January 31, 1874, … Continue reading Forever in Blue Jeans…and in Court
Petroglyphs, Napoleon, tobacco pigtails, the EPA. What do these have to do with each other? On May 14, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition set out from St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. France had just seceded Lousiana to the United States. The National Archives holds … Continue reading Connected, hundreds of years apart
The World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China, opened this month and expects to attract 70 million visitors. If you are not going to China, you can still visit the World Expos of the past, here in the National Archives. Since the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, the United States has hosted over a dozen expos. The … Continue reading Expo 2010, meet Expo 74
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Forty years ago this week, four people were killed at Kent State University, fueling protests in an already divided nation. This map was used by the Kent State University Investigative Team to determine what happened on May 4, 1970.
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Our latest issue of Prologue just hit the shelves, but you might not recognize it when you first see it. We've kept the same great articles by Pulitzer-Prize winning authors like James McPherson that you've come to expect, but we've … Continue reading Five ways we’ve changed Prologue to better suit you
