April 27 is National Babe Ruth Day, when baseball fans worldwide celebrate baseball’s all-time greatest player. It originated on April 27, 1947, when the new Commissioner of Baseball Albert “...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/04/25/babe-ruth-day/
April 20 to April 28 is National Park Week, and on April 20, 2024, the National Park Service is waiving park entrance fees to kick off the celebration. Today we’re looking at the northernmost ...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/04/18/gates-of-the-arctic-national-park-and-preserve/
Today’s post comes from Saba Samy, an intern at the National Archives in Washington, DC. On April 15, 1947, Jack Roosevelt (“Jackie”) Robinson made his debut in Major League Baseball for ...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/04/10/the-inventors-behind-americas-favorite-pastime/
On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Today’s post, an update of Riley Lindheimer’s 2017 piece, looks a...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/04/03/total-eclipse-of-the-sun-2/
March is Women’s History Month. Visit the National Archives website for resources and virtual events related to women’s history. When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, Title VII prohibit...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/03/27/the-federal-womens-program/
On Saturday a new exhibit opened in the National Archives Building, Power & Light: Russell Lee’s Coal Survey. It will run in the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery until July 6, 2025. This exhibit f...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/03/18/russell-lees-coal-survey-exhibit/
It’s Women’s History Month, and we are taking a look at past staff and their many contributions to the National Archives throughout history. Today’s staff spotlight is on Faye Geeslin, who ...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/03/13/historic-staff-spotlight-faye-geeslin/
Today’s post, from Alyssa Moore in the National Archives History Office, is in honor of Women’s History Month and looks at the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service program, or WAVES...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/03/06/waves-its-a-womans-war-too/
160 years ago on leap day, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Ulysses S. Grant to be Lieutenant General of the Army. Three years into the U.S. Civil War, with no end in sight, President Abraham ...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/02/28/lincolns-leap-day-nomination-of-grant/
Today’s post comes from Thomas Richardson, an expert archives technician at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri. Far out in the New Mexico desert, the largest ...
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/02/21/atomic-veterans-commemorative-service-medal/