DocsTeach harnesses the vast resources of the National Archives and empowers educators with a flight of online tools to apply primary resources in the classroom.
Highlights from the 10 billion+ collection of documents at the National Archives are launch points for unique, personalized journeys of discovery through the history of the United States.
In the Public Vaults, the permanent exhibit in the National Archives Experience, visitors can experience the feeling of going beyond the walls of the rotunda into the stacks and vaults of the National Archives.
Visitors are challenged to guess the identities of famous American immigrants in an interactive that reveals their identity through the process of examining their immigration and naturalization records.
A touch screen lets visitors compare before and after satellite photographs of seven different locations to study the effects of nature and urbanization.
In this interactive visitors, examine previously classified documents and hear four presidents’ behind-the-scenes conversations as they confront critical situations and crises including the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
After listening to congressional debates and reviewing records in favor of and in opposition to issues from the last two centuries, visitors cast votes in these two interactives.
This engaging, game-like experience outlines the five major challenges that the National Archives faces in preserving the electronic records of our government.
Visitors discover how Americans use the National Archives to seek the truth about their families in this interactive installation.
Through enhanced access to original documents, this interactive explores the records that document how agents of the bureau assisted freepersons from 1865 to 1872.
In these three installations visitors slide a touch screen across archival storage boxes to reveal materials and evidence preserved from famous investigations, such as those on UFOs, the Kennedy assassination, the Kent State shootings, and Watergate.
In an interface featuring a panning map of the United States, this interactive enables visitors to navigate across the country and discover all the National Archives and Records Administration facilities, libraries, and centers open to the public.
With these two installations, visitors preview film clips in the National Archives and edit their own D-Day documentary that plays for the whole gallery on an overhead screen.
Younger audiences create their own version of the Great Seal in this interactive as they select different combinations of symbols and iconography.
In these two installations, visitors physically slide their touch screens across the wall to reveal declassified records, while above them an overhead screen plays a video featuring secrecy posters from World War II.
The names and records of military personnel returned alive after the Vietnam War are accessible through this interactive installation.
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