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.