Past Documents
Yeti Sightings and Rules, circa 1959
Just in time for Halloween, the National Archives Museum shares a 1959 State Department memo about the Yeti, the long-feared Abominable
Justice Thurgood Marshall: First African American Supreme Court Justice
On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African
Mobilizing for War: The Selective Service Act in World War I
On May 18, 1917, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military
Declaration of War: The U.S. Enters World War I
On April 6, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed this joint resolution, ending America’s neutral stance on the ongoing global conflict –