A fight against bias in the Army presages a historic baseball career for Jackie Robinson.

Looking for men who did not serve in the Civil War.

Today Gerry might be all but forgotten, but his participation in the Constitutional Convention was key to shaping our government.

Nearly one-quarter of NARA's holdings are located in its regional archives, and there may be one near you.

How the producers of The Sound of Music altered the story of the family that endeared itself to audiences on stage and screen.

The search for the real people whose stories live within the records of the National Archives brings surprises, joy, and sadness.

She stood up to a President, became the first woman to argue before the Supreme Court, and helped stir the woman suffrage movement.

Exploring court records created during the building of the Atlantic-Pacific link.

In providing "advice and consent" for Presidential appointments, the Senate has also produced controversy and drama.

Prison records can be a surprisingly rich — if disconcerting — source of genealogical information.

St. Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia has a storied past preserved at the National Archives.

Throughout the 20th century, White House conferences on children served as snapshots of the nation's youth.

Audrey Amidon points the spotlight on two women who were drawn to hte Arctic regions and whose exploits were captured on film now in the National Archives.

Phillip W. Stewart chronicles the movie-making done by the federal government from World War I through the space race as he documents the motion picture holdings of the Archives.

In 1924, eight Army airmen set out to become the first humans to circumnavigate the globe by air. This is their story.

Esquire magazine's fight against Post Office censorship in the 1940s.

As the railroads speeded America's westward movement, post office cars made the nation's mail move faster, too.

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July marks both the birth and death of one of America's greatest writers, Ernest Hemingway. Researchers come to the Hemingway archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library primarily to examine Ernest Hemingway's original manuscripts and his correspondence with family, friends, and fellow writers. But upon entering, it is hard not to notice the artifacts that ornament the Hemingway Room—including a mounted antelope head from a 1933 safari, an authentic lion-skin rug, and original artwork that Hemingway owned.