Archive for January, 2012
Hitler and his Dentist
Today’s guest post comes from Miriam Kleiman of the Public and Media Communications Office. Before joining the Public Affairs staff, I was a researcher for the “Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group.” I reviewed records of Nazi war criminals, including those recruited by the U.S. intelligence. Needless to say, this [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 31, 2012, under - World War II, Myth or History, Unusual documents.
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Army Counter-Intelligence Corps, dentist, ecords of the Army Staff, hitler, Hugo Johannes Blaschke, Psi Omega Zeta, RG 319, teeth
Comments: 5
Four Patriots from Baseball’s Hall of Fame
Each January, as frost and snow cover baseball fields across America, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum provides heartwarming news for fans of our national pastime. This is the season when the Baseball Writers’ Association of America elects new members from the ranks of retired ballplayers. When the Hall of Fame was first established [...]
Posted by Gregory Marose on January 24, 2012, under - World War I, - World War II, Prologue Magazine.
Tags: 104th Field Artillery Regiment, Babe Ruth, baseball, Beyond the Box Office, Christy Mathewson, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, New York National Guard, The Bambino, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, war bonds
Comments: 1
NARA, Wikipedia, and the Day of Infamy
No, I’m not talking about January 18, when English Wikipedia went dark in protest of the House’s proposed Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senate’s PROTECT IP Act. (Just 10 years ago, having no Wikipedia would not have fazed me in the least. We still had a dial-up Internet connection, and I regularly visited a brick-and-mortar library [...]
Posted by Victoria on January 20, 2012, under - World War II, preservation, Social Media Guides.
Tags: day of infamy, December 7, Dominic McDevitt-Parks, Pearl Harbor, PROTECT IP Act, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, Wikipedia, Wikipedian in Residence
Comments: none
Thursday Photo Caption Contest—January 19
Are you ready to return to captioning? Can you rewrite history with a humorous twist? Well, we’re back! We’ve been scouring the digital archives looking for the finest photographs. We’re lining up guest judges. We’re setting aside the wacky, the wonderful, and the wordless images from our holdings. And we’re looking forward to all your entries! The winner [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 19, 2012, under Photo Caption Contest.
Tags: discount, eStore, Photo Caption Contest
Comments: 15
George Clooney and the National Archives: One degree of separation
Today’s guest post was written by Miriam Kleiman, who works in the National Archives Public Affairs Office. George Clooney’s next film—which he will write, direct, and star in—is based on holdings from the National Archives! Clooney announced last weekend that his number-one priority is to make a film about the “Monuments Men,” a group of [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 18, 2012, under - World War II, News and Events, Unusual documents.
Tags: Alfred Rosenberg, Bavaria, Captured German Records, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Eisenhower, ERR, George Clooney, George Patton, Hermann Goering, hitler, Hitler albums, Hollywood, Jewish art collections, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Monuments Men, National Treasure, Neuschwanstein, Nicholas Cage, Office of Strategic Services Art Looting Unit, Omar Bradley, Robert Edsel, Rose Valland, U.S. Army
Comments: 21
