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Exploring the U.S. Constitution in Washington DC with Your Family

Holidays, MuseumsSeptember 21, 202474Views 0Likes 0Comments

On September 17th, 1787, the Constitutional Congress delegates signed the U.S. Constitution into effect. To explore this important document more, here are a few places to visit in Washington DC with your family. 1. View the National Archives. Walk through the Rotund and see the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.…

Celebrate Independence Day with The Family at The National Archives

HolidaysJuly 1, 2023309Views 0Likes 0Comments

Visit Washington DC for the 4th of July and see the Declaration of Independence with your own eyes at the National Archives. Travel back in time with their dramatic reading of the Declaration at 10 am. As you sit on the steps outside, you'll be transported back to 1776, when the document was originally read…

“All American: The Power of Sports”

ExhibitOctober 4, 2022243Views 0Likes 0Comments

February 22, 1880- upstate New York. The US men's hockey team beat the Soviet team in the most famous hockey game in American history. The Miracle on Ice Twenty-one years later, America was still reeling from the 9/11 attack when President George W. Bush came to New York and threw out the first pitch of the…

Monuments Men Diary Donated to the National Archives

EventsMay 2, 2019229Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Monuments Men Foundation donated the diary of S. Lane Faison, Jr. to the National Archives this week. This continues the piecemeal reconstruction of records related to the immense theft of art in Europe by the Nazi during WWII. Now 74 years after the meticulous kept Nazi records fell in Allied hands, the records are…