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Through photographs from a 1946 survey, the National Archives is highlighting the diverse lives of coal miners and their families in Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey, a new exhibit opening on March 16, 2024. The exhibit, which shares more than 200 photographs of renowned documentary photographer Russell Lee, is free and open to the public at the Lawrence F. O’Brien

Born 86 years apart, Taffy Abel and T.J. Oshie are rare Indigenous American NHLers

By Angela Tudico | National Archives News WASHINGTON, July 26, 2023 — The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy is now on view at the National Archives Museum. Enlarge FIFA Women's World Cup Trophy, 2019, on display at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC. Photo by Susana Raab. Coinciding with this year’s Women’s World Cup games, which began on July 20, the trophy will

With 44 events, some of them dating back to the original Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, track and field is really several sports in one. From the highest jumps to some of the fastest world records, track and field has it all. You can learn about the impact of sports in the exhibit All American: The Power of Sports, which runs in the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery in Washington,

More than a century before an ice skater would land a historic quadruple axel jump in 2022, people across the U.S. and the Alaska Territory strapped on their skates and scritched their way across frozen ponds. The National Archives has skating-related photos and patents dating back to the 19th century. You can learn about the impact of sports in the exhibit All American: The

All American explores the power of sports to embody our national ideals and the power of athletes to challenge us to live up to them.

By Angela Tudico | National Archives News NEW YORK, September 9, 2022 — When visitors walk into All American: The Power of Sports, the new exhibit opening at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC, on September 16, they will be greeted with a familiar sight: images of a ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game. But this was not just any baseball game—it was Game 3 of

By Angela Tudico | National Archives News WASHINGTON, August 31, 2022 — Title IX fundamentally changed the face of American sports, providing girls and women with greatly expanded opportunities to compete. Part of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal funding. According to the

The arts are in full summer bloom–get out and enjoy!! These galleries are cool inside, so gallery hopping is a good hot day activity.

By Cara Moore Lebonick | National Archives News Enlarge One section of the Rightfully Hers exhibit asks the question "How did women win the 19th Amendment?" (National Archives photo by Cathy Farmer) WASHINGTON, March 21, 2022 — Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote, a featured exhibit in the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC,