Let’s play ball! Bring the whole family for a historic day out and get ringside seats to our current exhibit: “All American: The Power of Sports.” With more than 75 items on display, including original records, artifacts, and photographs, our new exhibit is sure to be a slam dunk!
S/Sgt. Barry Slater of Los Angeles, California, going in for a basket. Team entered in a league sponsored by Special Services. Company C, 29th Quartermaster Regiment, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. April 5, 1943. National Archives Identifier 148727136
Sports have the power to unite people, teach values, and inspire hope and pride. But sports convey power to athletes too—power to break social barriers and protest injustice. “All American” explores the power of sports both to embody our national ideals and challenge us to live up to them.
Visit our exhibit and then participate in activities and learn how athletes and competitions shaped American history, on and off the field. Highlights include original sports equipment and jerseys given by star athletes to Presidents, early 20th-century tobacco baseball cards, trophies, rare pictures and film footage, patents, and more!
“All American” is free and open to the public, and will be on display in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery of the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC, through January 7, 2024. Learn more on the exhibit website: "All American: The Power of Sports."
If you can’t visit in person, take a virtual tour of our new exhibit, “All American: The Power of Sports,” with curator Alice Kamps.
Educators, you can also visit DocsTeach for hundreds of primary source documents related to Sports throughout US history. Many are featured in our “All American” exhibit.
Whether you visit in person, online, or attend one of our educational programs, we hope you enjoy our latest exhibit’s look into some of the greatest moments in our nation’s sports history.
Nancy Reagan During a Photo Op. with The Shooting Stars Basketball Team Meadowlark Lemon Curley Neal and Pete Maravich in The Cross Hall. February 28, 1986 National Archives Identifier 75854633
Fuel your workout with a retro routine with Walter Camp! Camp and his Daily Dozen moves–from World War I footage in our holdings–are featured in our “All American” exhibit. Learn more and view our Sports GIF pack.
Golf, jogging, horseback riding, Hoover Ball—U.S. Presidents have often found a way to be involved in sports. And luckily for the public, it's all documented in the holdings of the National Archives. Learn more on our Sporty Presidents page.
Join us as a Citizen Archivist and help make records more searchable and findable in the Catalog!
Looking for a quick record to transcribe? Index cards are perfect because you can transcribe as little or as much as you like. There are plenty of index cards in the mission: “Probate Index, ca. 1908 - 1961,” which is a name index to the probate records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, from the early 1900s to 1961. The cards list the individual's name and tribe, date of death, an indication if the heirs were determined and if they were notified, the appraised value of the estate, and references to a file number in the central classified files.
How to find a page to transcribe
Since these records can be completed quickly, the mission may move fast! If you are having trouble finding a page to transcribe, consider navigating several pages into the list of records in the mission to find a page that hasn’t been transcribed yet. We also recommend looking at the thumbnails to find a page designated as “not started.”
Since launching in 2016, History Hub has strived to better serve the public interested in both personal and historical research by providing crowdsourcing capability for relevant information and improving access to the records held by government agencies like the National Archives and Records Administration and the Library of Congress. Over the last several years we have had the opportunity to observe how the community uses History Hub, and we’ve collected feedback from users on what improvements we could make to further this mission. Based on this, we are excited to announce that History Hub will be migrating to a new and improved platform at the end of February that will provide an enhanced user experience and streamlined functionality.
We do not anticipate the migration causing any major down time or disruptions in service to History Hub, except for a brief period during which you will not be able to create new content or comment on existing content. Existing content will still be accessible as read-only during this time. We will share the specific date and duration of this content freeze as we get closer to the migration at the end of February.
Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks!
