The National Archives is part of Blue Star Museums 2013!
First launched in the summer of 2010, Blue Star Museums offers free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 27, through Labor Day, September 2, 2013.
At the National Archives in DC, military personnel with ID and their families can always enter through the Special Events entrance on Constitution Avenue and 7th St. (Admission is always free!)
And some of our Presidential Libraries will be participating in the Blue Star free admission program, so check before you visit!
This is available to any bearer of a Geneva Convention common access card (CAC), a DD Form 1173 ID card, or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card, which includes active duty U.S. military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, as well as members of the National Guard and Reserve, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, NOAA Commissioned Corps) and up to five family members.
We’re participating with Blue Star Museums 2013 in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson will be at the National Archives on Wednesday, May 22, at noon to discuss his bookThe Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945.
Watch live on Ustream or join us in person for this free public program.
This book is the conclusion to his Liberation Trilogy about the battle for Western Europe during World War II. Atkinson describes the final campaign of the European war, from D-Day to Germany’s surrender.
A book signing will follow the program.
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero hosts another edition of Archives Jeopardy! Audience members will be selected to test their historical knowledge and win prizes.
Join us on Tuesday, May 21, at noon at the National Archives!
Image: Courtesy of Jeopardy!
Jennifer Armstrong tells the story of the making of a classic and groundbreaking TV show.
Join us in person or watch on Ustream on Monday, May 20, at noon as we present “Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted.”
As the first situation comedy to employ numerous women as writers and producers, The Mary Tyler Moore Show became a guiding light for women in the 1970s and helped increase involvement, responsibility, and visibility of women in future television programs.
A book signing will follow the program.
It’s Bike to Work Day! For today’s Flashback Friday post in honor of our exhibit “Searching for the Seventies” we found this DOCUMERICA photo of a bike in El Paso, Texas, in 1972.
Did you have a bike in the 1970s? Did it have a banana seat? Streamers flowing from the handlebars?
“Beyond the Basics” Genealogy: Nonpopulation Census Records
Claire Kluskens will show you how to better understand our ancestors’ lives from information in the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 census schedules of agriculture, industry, mortality, and social statistics, as well as the 1935 census of business.
Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m.
Room G-25, Research Center (Penn. Ave. Entrance)
Original Caption: Enumeration, a Farmer Supplies Answers to the 232 Questions on the Farm Schedule, 1940 - 1941
Tonight at 7 pm! Join us live or watch on Ustream as former members of Congress discuss how the White House and Congress can work together.
“Congress and the White House: Partners or Foes?” will be streamed live on our UStream channel at 7 p.m.
Peter Cook, Bloomberg TV’s chief Washington correspondent will moderate panelists Steve LaTourette (R-OH), Vic Fazio (D-CA), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), and Larry Pressler (R-SD). Presented in partnership with U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress.
Freedmen who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, and death. As Jim Downs reveals in Sick from Freedom, the war produced the largest biological crisis of the 19th century.
Join us Friday, May 17, at noon at the National Archives in Washington, DC, for “Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.”
You can also watch online as we stream this program live on our Ustream channel.
A book signing will follow the program.
Learn how to use Civil War court-martial records in your genealogy research. Archives specialist Timothy Syzek will present ‘Beyond the Basics Genealogy: Civil War Courts-Martial” (all skill levels welcome).
Wednesday, May 15, at 11 a.m.
Room G-25, Research Center (Penn. Ave. Entrance)
Image: Army of the Cumberland, court martial group, (111-B-2002)