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U.S. Archivist David S. Ferriero Responds to Capitol Riots
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U.S. Archivist David S. Ferriero Responds to Capitol Riots
https://go.usa.gov/xARmQ
Our January Document of the Month is from Record Group 36: Records of the U.S. Customs Service. The passenger manifest for the Nevada documents the arrival of 13-year-old Annie Moore, of County Cork, Ireland, the first immigrant to be processed through Ellis Island. Her entry is seen on the second line of this passenger arrival record. Annie Moore and her two younger brothers were traveling to meet their parents who had previously emigrated to New York.
The manifest also includes information concerning age, occupation, country of citizenship, intended destination, ability to read and write, location of compartment on ship, luggage, and nature of the journey.
Today, over 100 million Americans can trace an ancestor that came through Ellis Island.
You can access this document through the National Archives Online Catalog with National Archives Identifier 5753086 or DocsTeach.
Even though our office remains closed due to Covid -19, you can catch a glimpse of the building in this Aerial view of the tip of Manhattan and photo from our catalog at: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/513345.
And if you can't find the building location, we circled it in our attached New Year's card for you. We know 2020 was a very difficult year for many. We hope for a happier and healthier 2021!
Interested in maritime history? Check out this article on Captain Blye, courtesy of our Boston office. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2017/spring/blye-maritime-records
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What a year 2020 has been!
The National Archives–with research rooms, museums, Federal Records Centers, and Presidential Libraries across the country–closed its doors in March and, for the most part, remained closed as part of our commitment to the health and safety of staff, researchers, and visitors.
Throughout the year, our staff kept working to meet the agency’s strategic goal of making access happen, but now their work focused on virtual access, from improving the Catalog to uploading new historic footage to YouTube. Our citizen archivists kept on tagging and transcribing and helped set new records. The Fourth of July, our biggest in-person event, became a successful online one.
Join us as we look back at some of the good moments of 2020!
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2020 in Review
2020 was a year like no other. Without a doubt, this is a year that will be covered in the history books of the future. Despite this unprecedented year, a bright spot was working with our Citizen Archivists and Catalog community members. Together we accomplished a great deal! Looking back on this un...
Happy Bill of Rights Day!
Five days before the Constitutional Convention ended, George Mason of Virginia proposed adding a bill of rights.
But after a short debate--seen in this Voting Record of the Constitutional Convention--the state delegations voted down the motion, 0-10. That became a problem during the ratification process.
Supporters of the Constitution, the Federalists, thought a bill of rights was unnecessary and even dangerous. The authors of The Federalist Papers, including James Madison, argued for ratification of the Constitution without a bill of rights. They thought no list of rights could be complete, therefore it was best to make no list at all.
The omission of a bill of rights proved to be a mistake almost fatal to the Constitution. New York and several other states agreed to ratify with the promise that the First Congress would add rights to the Constitution through the amendment process. These states might have rejected the Constitution without the promise of a future bill of rights.
The First Congress included a preamble to the Bill of Rights to explain why the amendments were needed. Declaring that they were a response to the demand for amendments from the state ratifying conventions, the preamble states that Congress proposed them “to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers” and to extend “the ground of public confidence in the government.”
The Senate reworked the amendment language passed by the House of Representatives. Their marked-up draft spilled the most ink on the Third and Fourth Articles, which were combined to form the First Amendment. It protects freedom of religion, speech, and press, and the right to assemble and petition.
The Bill of Rights became the first 10 amendments to the Constitution when Virginia ratified them on December 15, 1791.
Of the 14 states in the Union, Virginia was the 11th to ratify, thus providing the constitutionally required bar of three-quarters of the states needed for ratification.
Since 1941, December 15 has been celebrated as Bill of Rights Day.
Text adapted from the online exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/amending-america-why-a-bill-of-rights/gQQ0JQgv
Image: Voting Record of the Constitutional Convention, 1787, National Archives and Records Administration, 1787-09-15, From the collection of: U.S. National Archives
Attention young learners! Come meet with Orville Wright, the Aviation pioneer on December 17th 11am. Details are at: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/event/young-learners-program-orville-wright-aviation-pioneer
On Thursday, December 17, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. CST, the National Archives will host the Young Learners Program, "Orville Wright: Aviation Pioneer."
In this live event, meet Orville Wright (Bob Gleason, an actor with American Historical Theatre) and discover how the Wright Brothers made the first controlled flight of a powered aircraft. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of Mr. Wright during the program. This free program can be viewed via live stream on the National Archives YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/NbFJ4YDefho.
Learn more: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/event/young-learners-program-orville-wright-aviation-pioneer.
In case you missed the program about the Four Continent Statues of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, you can now view it on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3R6wHG2Gk . Thank you to our moderator, Dr. Christine Baron, and our panelists, Michele Cohen, curator for the Architect of the U.S. Capitol and Brent Leggs, executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund as well as our partners at GSA and the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian.
We are at a moment in our national history when we are reckoning with the ways monuments hold public space and the ideas, ideologies, and values that they br...
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Today's Facial Hair Friday features the mustache of actor Tom Selleck!
Magnum P.I. was one of the most popular television series throughout much of the 1980s, and it wasn’t just the location, the adventure, or the chart-topping opening tune that made it a cultural phenomenon—it was Tom Selleck and his “lip fur.”
Our Document of the Month is a photo of our building, the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, ca. 1907, a record of the National Park Service.
Designed by renowned architect Cass Gilbert, the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House was constructed in the early 20th century. This beaux-arts masterpiece was built to house New York’s United States Custom Service to assess and collect duties and taxes on imported goods in one of the nation’s most prosperous ports.
The Four Continents Statues at the building’s entrance represent Asia, America, Europe, and Africa and are prime examples of the City Beautiful movement and national pride during the early 20th century. The National Historic Landmark currently houses the National Archives at New York City, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York among other Federal agencies.
This month we are hosting an online program, The Four Continents- An Open Dialogue, Monday, December 7, 6pm ET, to discuss the Daniel Chester French Statues. It is the second in a series on the Statues. Details can be found at: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/event/the-four-continents-an-open-dialogue
Photos of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City, NY are part of materials from the U.S. Custom House Nomination Form for National Register of Historic Places status.
You can access this document through the National Archives Online Catalog with National Archives Identifier 75320008 or DocsTeach.
If you are teaching about Pearl Harbor and need some resources, be sure to check out our latest education blog at: https://education.blogs.archives.gov/2020/12/03/pearl-harbor/
As the Pearl Harbor anniversary approaches, we’re sharing historical documents, posters, photographs, and more related to the attack and its impact on U.S. History. On DocsTeach, the online t…
The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, but this landmark event was not the beginning or the end of the story for women and the struggle for the right to vote. In 2020 we commemorated this centennial year with 12 stories from our holdings. Be sure to download the final calendar of the year at: https://www.archives.gov/campaigns/19th-amendment-calendar
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What a great film! Woodsy the Owl!
🎶 Give a hoot, don't pollute! 🎶 🦉
Take a stroll with Woodsy the Owl in this 1977 film that is now available on our YouTube channel!
https://youtu.be/Jo-7pgrAW-k
Today's Document
This diagram shows where Rosa Parks was seated on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on December 1, 1955.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/596069
File Unit: Aurelia S. Browder et al. v. W. A. Gayle et al., No. 1147, 9/1938 - 11/26/1968
Series: Civil Cases, 9/1938 - 11/26/1968
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009
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“I am looking for an image of Henry Chee Dodge, first chairman of the Navajo Nation Council"
See featured resources from @NewMexicoHistoryMuseum & @pogphotoarchives in the latest answer to our #QuestionOfTheWeek on #HistoryHub, our crowdsourced platform for history and genealogical research where anyone can ask questions and get answers from archivists and other community members. https://historyhub.history.gov/thread/9386?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=QOTW&utm_content=NAHMHCDNavajo-20201127
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If you haven't seen our recent program on the Four Continents at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, please check it out at:
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Historian Harold Holzer provides a historical context for the statues and the building they sit in front of. The program is part of a series, the second which will be held on December 7th. Additional details can be found at our calendar of events at: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/event/the-four-continents-an-open-dialogue
Four massive statues representing Asia, America, Europe, and Africa, surround the entrance of the Alexander Hamilton Custom House in NYC.
They were designed to enhance the importance of this federal building with the ideal that the United States was leading the world with the “torch of progress,” said Harold Holzer, Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.
The statues created by Daniel Chester French under a federal contract, however, are complicated in a 21st-century social context.
Holzer discussed the depictions, known as “The Four Continents,” during a National Archives virtual public program with Columbia University assistant professor Christine Baron on November 9 .
https://go.usa.gov/x7yhk
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The National Archives has launched a new finding aid for more than 18,000 digitized historical photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
Finding aids are tools that help users locate records, and this one is a “next-generation” finding aid that uses data from our online Catalog. In this case, photographs can be browsed based on tribal nation, state, and topic.
Our staff worked with tribal members who provided feedback on the topics used in the finding aid and participated in user testing. In turn, the selected topics selected were used by citizen archivists to tag photographs in the Native American Photographs Tagging Mission, so that photographs in the Catalog will be pulled into the finding aid.
Because this finding aid is a living project, some tribal nations, topics, and geographic areas may not yet be fully represented. The finding aid will continue to grow and evolve as the National Archives digitizes more photographs from the BIA records.
https://go.usa.gov/x7p9z
Happy Birthday to Mickey Mouse!. We have a few exhibits related to Mickey and his friends- all part of the Southern District of New York court case for copyright and trademark violations. Check out the cases and all other pages of this coloring book in our catalog: http://catalog.archives.gov/id/158326098
Amazing artwork in this poster series..
Join us on Tuesday at 11am for our next Young Learners Program. And if you can't make it, the recording will be available on our NARA YouTube Channel. Details at: https://go.usa.gov/x7nSc
Make your calendars for November 17! Meet Abraham Lincoln (Bob Gleason, an actor with American Historical Theatre) and discover how Thanksgiving became a national holiday in this special event from our Young Learners Program.
https://go.usa.gov/x7nSc
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During World War I, an estimated 12,000 Native American soldiers served in the U.S. military, and tens of thousands of Native Americans supported the war at home by working in war industries, purchasing war bonds, and assisting in war relief efforts.
American Indians volunteered to serve despite a long history of discrimination against indigenous people and their traditional culture. Many Native Americans weren't even recognized as U.S. citizens.
In honor of National American Indian Heritage Month and Veterans Day, our online featured document exhibit highlights several World War I records that show how that Native American soldiers used their language and cultural heritage to serve the country.
See the exhibit here: https://go.usa.gov/x7QCb
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Photo: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86707302
Don't forget you can download the 19thAmendment Centennial Calendar which features the famous campaign slogan from New York Congresswoman, Bella Abzug.
Share the words of "Battling Bella" on your phone!
The November graphic to our 19thAmendment Centennial Calendar features the famous campaign slogan from Congresswoman Bella Abzug.
Download the graphic: https://www.archives.gov/campaigns/19th-amendment-calendar
More about Bella Abzug: https://go.usa.gov/x7Be5
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Love a good map of New York!
"Plan of the City of New York: Surveyed in the Years 1766 & 1767" is a #map that shows us familiar NYC places like Hanover Square, Maiden Lane, and Beekman Street. O
On the bottom of the map, the detail is so fine you can see seashells on the beach.
https://go.usa.gov/x72sR
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Staff at the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) are ready for their 2020 Electoral College duties.
“OFR acts as an intermediary by receiving Certificates of Ascertainment of electors and Certificates of Vote from the States and the District of Columbia and reviewing them for legal sufficiency,” explains Oliver Potts, Director of the Federal Register. “It then makes them available to Congress for the official accounting of electors and votes.”
They'll receive the paper certificates from the states, and scan, review, log, and post certificates to archives.gov.
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Today's Facial Hair Friday features the goatee of Donehogawa, also known as Ely S. Parker.
When the Civil War began, Parker attempted to join the Army as an engineer but was turned down because he was Native American. He contacted his friend, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who he had previously met while doing engineering work in Galena, IL.
Grant helped Parker get a commission, and Parker eventually became Grant’s secretary. As a close confidant, Parker was in charge of Grant’s correspondence, and drafted the final Confederate terms of surrender at Appomattox in 1865.
When Grant became President in 1869, he appointed Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first Native American to hold the office. As Commissioner, Parker tried to implement Grant’s peace policy to end corruption in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and advance Native American rights.
However, Parker faced obstacles from Congress, who opposed the policy, and ended up resigning in 1871 when Congress stripped him of essentially all his power as Commissioner.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2020/11/06/facial-hair-friday-donehogawa-ely-s-parker/
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