For Teacher Appreciation Week, here’s an article written by Herbert Hoover dedicated to a teacher in Salem, Oregon. Miss Gray helped him develop a love of reading.

Readers Digest asked Herbert Hoover to prepare an article on the best advice he had ever received. “Thank You Miss Gray” was published in July 1959.

(Images: “The best advice I ever had” article by Herbert Hoover, 7/1959. From Hoover’s Articles, Addresses and Public Statements in the Herbert Hoover Papers in the Hoover Presidential Library. More teacher-inspired records are being posted at the National Archives Education page.)

Christian Caryl shows how the world we live in today began to take shape in 1979. Join us Friday, May 10, at noon for “Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century” or watch on Ustream. Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force, the beginning of market revolutions that would radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. A book signing will follow the program.
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Christian Caryl shows how the world we live in today began to take shape in 1979.

Join us Friday, May 10, at noon for “Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century” or watch on Ustream.

Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force, the beginning of market revolutions that would radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A book signing will follow the program.

Seventh graders work with teachers at a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) School in Sheffield, Alabama, in 1937. The Pickwick Landing Dam, a TVA project, was completed there in 1938. This week on the National Archives Education page, we’re featuring teachers at work. We’ll post more education-inspired images from our holdings until the bell rings on Friday!   (Image: TVA School-Village #1, Seventh Graders with Teachers, 1937. From the Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority. National Archives Identifier 280008. http://research.archives.gov/description/280008)
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Seventh graders work with teachers at a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) School in Sheffield, Alabama, in 1937. The Pickwick Landing Dam, a TVA project, was completed there in 1938.

This week on the National Archives Education page, we’re featuring teachers at work. We’ll post more education-inspired images from our holdings until the bell rings on Friday!
 
(Image: TVA School-Village #1, Seventh Graders with Teachers, 1937. From the Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority. National Archives Identifier 280008. http://research.archives.gov/description/280008)
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! This week on the National Archives Education page, we’re featuring teachers at work. This class photo of a teacher posed with her students in front of their sod schoolhouse in Woods County, in the Oklahoma Territory, was taken about 1895. How many students do you count? (Image: Teacher and children in front of sod schoolhouse. Woods Co., Okla. Terr., ca. 1895. From the Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior. National Archives Identifier: 516448. http://docsteach.org/documents/516448/detail) — at Woods County, Oklahoma.
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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! This week on the National Archives Education page, we’re featuring teachers at work.

This class photo of a teacher posed with her students in front of their sod schoolhouse in Woods County, in the Oklahoma Territory, was taken about 1895. How many students do you count?

(Image: Teacher and children in front of sod schoolhouse. Woods Co., Okla. Terr., ca. 1895. From the Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior. National Archives Identifier: 516448. http://docsteach.org/documents/516448/detail) — at Woods County, Oklahoma.

Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein captivates audiences worldwide with her powerful message of hope, inspiration, love, and humanity. She will speak at the National Archives on Thursday, May 9, at 7 p.m. In this program for Jewish American Heritage month, we will show the Academy Award–winning HBO documentary of her life, One Survivor Remembers (40 min.), and then the celebrated author, 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and Holocaust survivor will discuss the film after the screening. A book signing will follow the program. Presented in partnership with Citizenship Counts and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.
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Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein captivates audiences worldwide with her powerful message of hope, inspiration, love, and humanity.

She will speak at the National Archives on Thursday, May 9, at 7 p.m.

In this program for Jewish American Heritage month, we will show the Academy Award–winning HBO documentary of her life, One Survivor Remembers (40 min.), and then the celebrated author, 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and Holocaust survivor will discuss the film after the screening.

A book signing will follow the program. Presented in partnership with Citizenship Counts and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.

The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret Southern society that sought to establish a slave-holding empire in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. Join us on Wednesday, May 1, at noon as author David C. Keehn provides the first comprehensive analysis of the society and how they carried out clandestine actions to support the southern cause. Even with the war all but lost, various Knights supported one of its members, John Wilkes Booth, in his plot to assassinate President Lincoln. (If you aren’t in DC, you can watch line on our Ustream channel. The program will also be archived later on that page.) The public program is free and will be held in the National Archives in Washington, DC. Enter through the Special Events door on Constitution and Seventh. A book signing will follow the program.
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The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret Southern society that sought to establish a slave-holding empire in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America.

Join us on Wednesday, May 1, at noon as author David C. Keehn provides the first comprehensive analysis of the society and how they carried out clandestine actions to support the southern cause. Even with the war all but lost, various Knights supported one of its members, John Wilkes Booth, in his plot to assassinate President Lincoln.

(If you aren’t in DC, you can watch line on our Ustream channel. The program will also be archived later on that page.)

The public program is free and will be held in the National Archives in Washington, DC. Enter through the Special Events door on Constitution and Seventh.

A book signing will follow the program.

Jimmie Walker got his start performing comedy in small clubs, and ultimately became a 1970s icon playing J.J. Evans on Good Times. Walker will be talking about his memoir at the National Archives on Friday, May 3, at noon. He was the first successful young black sitcom star, and his catchphrase—“Dyn-o-mite!”—remains an indicator of the era. In Dynomite!, Walker talks candidly about his rise and the tensions on the set of Good Times that contradict the show’s image of a close-knit blue-collar family. A book signing will follow the program.
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Jimmie Walker got his start performing comedy in small clubs, and ultimately became a 1970s icon playing J.J. Evans on Good Times.

Walker will be talking about his memoir at the National Archives on Friday, May 3, at noon.

He was the first successful young black sitcom star, and his catchphrase—“Dyn-o-mite!”—remains an indicator of the era. In Dynomite!, Walker talks candidly about his rise and the tensions on the set of Good Times that contradict the show’s image of a close-knit blue-collar family.

A book signing will follow the program.

Each change of Presidential administration requires a massive move of records and materials. The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum holds more than 70 million pages of textual records, 43,000 artifacts, 200 million emails (totaling roughly 1 billion pages), and 4 million digital photographs (the largest holding of electronic records of any of our libraries). Collecting this material, cataloging and processing it, and making it available to the public was a task that began on January 20, 2009. Read more about how National Archives staff got it all done on the Prologue blog. Image: This moving van was outside the White House on January 20, 1993. From the Clinton Presidential Library.
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Each change of Presidential administration requires a massive move of records and materials.

The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum holds more than 70 million pages of textual records, 43,000 artifacts, 200 million emails (totaling roughly 1 billion pages), and 4 million digital photographs (the largest holding of electronic records of any of our libraries).

Collecting this material, cataloging and processing it, and making it available to the public was a task that began on January 20, 2009.

Read more about how National Archives staff got it all done on the Prologue blog.

Image: This moving van was outside the White House on January 20, 1993. From the Clinton Presidential Library.