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On Sunday, October 14, 1962, an American U-2 aircraft, flying a photographic reconnaissance mission over Cuba, took 928 images (one is included with this article). The next day, analysts at the National Photographic Interpretation Center concluded that the photographs showed evidence of Soviet missile site construction in Cuba and conveyed their findings to McGeorge Bundy, President John F. Kennedy's National Security Adviser. Using this featured photograph and the copy of Pres. Kennedy's speech, teachers can lead a class discussion with the following questions: (1) What kind of document is it?; (2) When was it created?; (3) By whom?; and (4) For what purpose? This activity can help students recognized how helpful a group of advisors could be.

On Apri1-14, 1865, at approximately 10:20 p.m., John Wilkes Booth, a prominent American actor, snuck up behind President Abraham Lincoln as he watched a play from the presidential box at [...]

Meriwether Lewis was sent to Philadelphia by the American President, Thomas Jefferson, in the spring of 1803 to trek the North American Continent, as there were no shopping malls in America at that time. The evidence of the shopping spree, which lasted through May and part of June 1803, and which contributed to the success of the legendary voyage known as Lewis and Clark expedition, are given

Issues concerning the 2001-2004 traveling exhibition of the National Archives' 'American Originals' exhibition are examined. Topics include the opening on Oct 5, 2001, at the New York Public Library in Manhattan; the tour schedule; and documents that will be featured in the exhibit, including the voting record of the Constitutional Convention, 1787, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the preliminary 1862 Emancipation Proclamation, and the draft of Pres John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address.

Rights of American people are secured by the nation's founding documents that is the declaration of the independence, constitution, and bill of rights. These three documents are known collectively as Charters of Freedom and are permanently on display in the National Archives Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom.

Focuses on the journal of the late President Harry S. Truman, who was sworn in as President of the United States after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Decisions that were made by Truman during his reign as president; What Truman's diary tell us about the presidency.

On Sunday, October 14, 1962, an American U-2 aircraft, flying a photographic reconnaissance mission over Cuba, took 928 images (one is included with this article). The next day, analysts at the National Photographic Interpretation Center concluded that the photographs showed evidence of Soviet missile site construction in Cuba and conveyed their findings to McGeorge Bundy, President John F. Kennedy's National Security Adviser. INSET: Chronology of Soviet Deployment of Missiles in Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]