Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. While the Constitution may not update it's own writing too often (the last time was in 1992), it does update its own Facebook page. So why not head on over and see what's on the Constitution's mind? The Constitution will … Continue reading The Constitution has a Facebook Page
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Twenty years ago today, NASA dropped by our neighbor Venus to say hello and snap a few pictures. The Magellan probe entered orbit, took a terrestrial map of Venus, and then did something very rude: it crashed into the planet. Not … Continue reading Are you there Venus? It’s me, Earth
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Gerald Ford's ascendancy to the office of the President of the United States marked several firsts. For one, President Ford was the first (and so far only) Eagle scout to reach the nation's highest office. Then there is the name change: Gerald … Continue reading Leslie King, 38th President of the United States
It's a nineteenth-century twist on six degrees of separations--except Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren isn't connected to Kevin Bacon. Along with his mustache and soul patch, he's two degrees of separation from the Brooklyn Bridge. Warren was one of 12 children. His sister Emily came to visit him at his headquarter when he was commanding the Fifth … Continue reading Facial Hair Friday: The Brooklyn Bridge
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. The original caption to last week's photo seemed a bit tongue in cheek itself. "FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JAPAN—As the words informing the world of the truce being signed in Korea reached the ears of military personnel in Korea and Japan, … Continue reading Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. In 1924, a group of eight Army airmen set out to be the first humans to ever circle the globe by air. On their journey over Arctic mountain passes and vast Indian deserts, they would lose half their planes and … Continue reading Magellans of the Sky
For the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, the staff at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, MO, wanted to try something different. “Instead of doing a straightforward chronological presentation, we also wanted to focus on the personal experiences,” said curator Clay Bauske. The team worked for a year, collecting stories and … Continue reading Memories of Korea in Missouri
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Today in 1923, President Warren G. Harding died suddenly of a stroke in San Francisco. Just after midnight, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father on the other side of the country in Vermont. Harding was the … Continue reading Do presidents age more rapidly?
Walt Whitman, ca. 1860-ca. 1865 (111-B-2245). Song of My Beard (with apologies to the original Whitman poem!) 1. I celebrate my beard, and sing my beard, And what I grow you shall grow For every follicle belonging to me as good as belongs to you. I loafe and stroke my beard I lean and stroke … Continue reading Facial Hair Friday: Sounding the bearded YAWP
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Fact: this photo is actually from a post-apocalyptic future, and that's actually the Washington Monument, fenced to protect the only known remains of a land once known as "the District" ... strange that the future looks like rural Texas in … Continue reading Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
