On April 6, 1909, Robert Peary declared that he had reached the North Pole. Although doubts about his feat circulated for decades, his daughter, Marie Peary Stafford, had none. In 1932 she went to Greenland to oversee the construction of a monument to her father’s accomplishment. You can read more about her story in this [...]

Can the National Archives help solve a mystery that is 145 years old? In this “Inside the Vaults” video short, National Archives senior archivist Reginald Washington traces the history of a claim submitted by an African American congregation whose church was burned to the ground by Federal troops under the command of General William Tecumseh [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Even during the Great Depression, folks still sent Valentine’s Day cards–this one comes with a sly bit of humor. This 1918 valentine refers to the World War I effort to economize on food for the war effort—called “Hooverizing” in honor of the U.S. Food Administrator, Herbert Hoover. Would you Hooverize for your [...]