Dr. Joseph Ward Served as Director of the Tuskegee VA Hospital By Cara Moore Lebonick | National Archives News WASHINGTON, February 12, 2024 - The National Archives at St. Louis recently helped the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tuskegee Hospital using National Archives records and blogs to help honor the legacy of a trailblazing Black
By Cara Moore Lebonick | National Archives News WASHINGTON, August 8, 2023 The National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), recently helped bring closure to one family’s efforts to right an 80-year-long historical wrong. Enlarge Pentagon ceremony correcting discharge status of Philadelphia 15 with Larry Ponder at
By Cara Moore Lebonick | National Archives News Enlarge Primary Election Day, May 1972. Photo by LeRoy Woodson. National Archives, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (NAID 545369) View in National Archives Catalog WASHINGTON, October 4, 2022 As Americans head to the polls this midterm election, the National Archives and Records Administration continues its
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,
By Cara Moore Lebonick | National Archives News Enlarge NAID 131922380 - 1940 Census Population Schedules - Illinois - Macoupin County - ED 59-62 View in National Archives Catalog ST. LOUIS, Feburary 1, 2022 The National Archives at St. Louis is uniquely positioned to benefit from the public release of the 1950 Census on April 1. The holdings at St. Louis include the