Alan wants his TV time
The Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency received dozens of letters about limiting young people's access to certain TV shows. In this letter, junior high...
American message
During World War II the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) gathered and analyzed intelligence information, ran guerrilla campaigns, and conducted psychological...
Braille Letter from John Beaulieu
In 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower was running for re-election. The author of this letter writes in Braille from the oldest school for the blind in the world. To...
Burial at Arlington National Cemetery
In 1950, the body of Sergeant First Class John Rice was brought back from Korea for burial. Rice’s wife had purchased a gravesite near her home, but when cemetery...
Celebrating on planet Earth
American citizens celebrated the Moon landing in many different ways—by holding Moon parties, by taking photographs, or, in the case of Thaddeus A. Zagorewicz, by...
Crashed and captured!
George M. Neal wrote this September 13, 1954, letter to relatives of Navy officer Lieutenant John K. Koelsch. Neal, a crewmember of Koelsch, describes events...
“Deep and sincere congratulations”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the President of the U.S. Senate, Vice-President John N. Garner, on August 24, 1935. Roosevelt asks Garner to thank the...