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NEH cuts $1.5 million from grants to research Indian boarding schools
The funding, which supported work dealing with one of the darkest chapters in American history, is being reallocated in ...
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'Began a revolution': Lexington, Concord mark 250 years since 'shot heard round the world'
Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.
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'Began a revolution': Lexington, Concord mark 250 years since 'shot heard round the world'
“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C. She is part of the team that coordinates the more than 5,000 ...
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Inside the Intense Rivalry Between Eliot Ness and J. Edgar Hoover
ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images Harold Burton ... signs on with the Treasury Department as a prohibition agent. Collection of the National Law Enforcement Museum, 2012.39.2 Hoover extended ...
National Archives releases 10,000 pages of records related to 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
The Friday release continues the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump. Director of National ...
An archivist’s job is to ‘keep the receipts.’ What happens when they can’t do their job?
You can’t have people saying, ‘I don’t like that document. Take it out of public circulation or destroy it,’” said ...
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National Archives releases more than 10,000 records on RFK assassination
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The National Archives on Friday released more than 10,000 pages of records related to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Ten-thousand, one-hundred and eighty-five ...