Past Exhibits
Featured Document Exhibit: Remembering 9/11
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A collection of children's letters that reveal some of the ways that America's youngest citizens reflected and responded to the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history.
Featured Document Display: The Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth
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The freedom promised in the Emancipation Proclamation was finally delivered to 250,000 people who remained enslaved in Texas two and a half years after President Lincoln’s historic proclamation and two months after Union victory in the Civil War.
Featured Document Display: The First National Park: Yellowstone and the Hayden Survey
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Scientist, physician, and explorer Ferdinand V. Hayden is credited with spurring Congress to make Yellowstone the first National Park.
Featured Document Display: Black Wall Street: 100 Years Since the Tulsa Race Massacre
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The Tulsa Race Massacre was the first time the Red Cross mobilized to provide relief outside of a natural disaster.
Featured Document Display: First Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin
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Four years before ratification of the 19th Amendment secured American women’s constitutional right to vote, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress.
Featured Document Display: 150 Years of the Surgeon General
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To many Americans, the Surgeon General of the United States is the “nation’s doctor,” but it was a very different job 150 years ago.
Featured Document Display: George Washington's First Inaugural Address
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George Washington set many precedents as the first President of the United States, beginning on the day he took office.
Featured Document Display: 250 Years of Beethoven
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In honor of Beethoven's 250th birthday, we share this record from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum.
Featured Document: Want to hunt for the Yeti?
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A State Department memo reminds us that there are policies for everything - even Yeti-hunting in the Himalayas.
Featured Document Display: Victory in Japan: 75th Anniversary of the End of WWII
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World War II Finally came to an end on September 2, 1945, when Japan formally surrendered on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.