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AE: National Candy Day
National Candy Day
Today, Americans have an opportunity to exercise their right to vote on Election Day. We hope you’re hitting the polls, ...
Map of the Louisiana Purchase
Westward Bound
From our earliest days as a nation, Americans possessed an innate desire for expansion and growth—a need to explore the ...
Film in America
History in Motion: The Impact of Cinema on Our National Identity
In 1926, the film Don Juan used a new technology called Vitaphone to synchronize images with the musical score and ...
A Revolutionary City, a City-Wide Revolution: New York City & Independence
Something quite revolutionary took place just the other week: the New York Knicks clinched their first NBA Championship since 1973. ...
Weathering the Years: 155 Years of the National Weather Service
As we continue to hunker down and endure this stretch of unprecedented winter weather in the nation’s capital—and in many ...
The Challenger Tragedy & Legacy: 40 Years Later
40 years ago tomorrow, on an unusually cold morning in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the seven-member crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger ...
Down to the Wire: Telegrams in the Archives
Long before FaceTime, long even before landline telephones, the primary mode of long-distance communication was the telegraph. You could send ...
Tree-mendous Holidays at the White House
Twinkling lights, bright tinsel, the familiar scent of pine…some (or all) of these may be hallmarks of your own family’s ...
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Each December, the people of the United States remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the horrifying news and harrowing ...
Sips from the Stacks: The End of Prohibition
On December 5, the country will commemorate 92 years since one of the most profound shifts in constitutional history became ...