The hidden stories within the National Archives

Whether it's a petition from a first lady or just the first stop on an immigrant's journey in America, the National Archives preserves the records of all Americans.
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[@cynthia4326]

Grateful for All the 60 Minutes Team. THANK YOU ALL.

[@danam0228]

An important and often unappreciated part of our government. Thank you

[@yvonneplant9434]

This is the place that that convicted felon didn't want to return gov docs to.

[@danam0228]

@@yvonneplant9434 Lol, yup

[@patriciafeeley7997]

It is a gem, and really should be a field trip for every kid in school

[@kalianigisellemonroe9668]

*required trip*

[@kevinschilt133]

I think I speak for all genealogists that we wish they had the 1890 U.S. Census. They were destroyed in a fire. This is the genealogist library! Very important place!

[@Genoveva-y7j]

Thank you for this informative video. 🎉🎉🎉

[@andyroo9381]

Absolutely fascinating what lies with the walls of The National Archives.

[@kimberlyvalpey7158]

Thank u for this story. Boy how I would love a job doing this. What a privilege.

[@EddyKirksey]

Thats crazy!! Archives can find all this information, but can't help me find information about when I served in the Navy!! Archives won't even acknowledge my questions!!

[@TylerD288]

What happens when you contact the Navy? You get ignored too?

[@kimberlyvalpey7158]

Now that's 😢. Thank u for your Service Sir. Maybe try a legion to help u get things moving

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Maybe you are asking the wrong entity. Check the National Archives website for what kind of documents they have and until what date. Often, national archives wait decades before receiving certain documents, and they don't archive everything. First, you should go to a public library and tell your problem to a librarian - if where you live there are state archives, ask an archivist. Or, ask the Navy. But, I think, people in the local entities could be a better way to find what you need. Good luck. ✌

[@kalianigisellemonroe9668]

thank you for this! I learned two new things from this…. the things about mary todd lincoln and harriet tubman. I feel like I should have been taught this in school!

[@alexthompson9516]

I believe Schuyler Colfax's name was pronounced 'Skyler,' not 'Shuler.'

[@mr.pradorobledo]

On Gold Hill : a personal history of wheat, farming, and family, from Punjab to California

[@mr.pradorobledo]

NHL 2021 USAARP My FWD, Box ICE.

[@latinaalma1947]

$20,000 for the wife of an assasinated president still? What an insult.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

She got $33,000 a year; it's now that First Ladies get $20,000 a year. Harriet Tubman got $20 a month.

[@nicholasthompson7690]

Very cool!

[@faithinGod-h8v]

I love how you connect scripture with our daily lives....

[@yvonneplant9434]

What???

[@brodytudury]

I just wanna see Jackie Kennedy's pink suit Im 22 and don't know if i'll be around in 2102

[@imtheoriginal6930]

What a surprise we are all immergrints. 🎉😮

[@yvonneplant9434]

Immigrants. No "e".

[@rodney2860]

Let the truth be known ❗️

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Become an accredited historian, learn how to use archives, and find out yourself.

[@kalianigisellemonroe9668]

it’s odd to me when people ask “why is this important” or “why do this” I mean. it’s so simple. you need to be factually educated on history. lol

[@dreamcat4]

but there is more because it is too late it took the certainty for the destcructon of the entire human race for them to relent except they didnt actually relent, ever even in the face of that i had genuinely believed that i had contracted a common form cancer to seek help for that instead and wind up my affairs on planet earth

[@blakegoulds8313]

No, there weren't "so many women who fought for their country" in the civil war.

[@yvonneplant9434]

They weren't official solders.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

If you care to read books or articles about warfare in 19th century (and before) it was common that armies were followed by women. Wives, lovers - some ladies of the night, or just women who tried to help and serve their cause the best they could. They cooked, they tended to the wounded. Also, they were in the battlefield, giving water to the soldiers. That's why the French (and the Americans, I just found out) called them vivandières, and in Chile they were called cantineras (Chilean here; these ones were uniformed, and some of them fought in battle, like Sgt. Candelaria Pérez). Check the 2021 movie Vivandière, set in the Civil War, and the book Swords Around a Throne by John R. Elting, about Napoleon's Army. ✌

[@stevesloan56]

I'm sure they are copies

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

And the source of your certainty is...?

[@R3SUNS05]

The 60 minutes lady, sorry have zero idea of her name. I thought the spin this evening on how she described Trumps possession of docs to Bidens ridiculous. Either she is incapable of bias or follows instructions to well to be considered a journalist.

[@mike74h]

Doesn't know basic grammar and doesn't know how to use words correctly but knows how to spot an incompetent major network news anchor. 😂

[@yvonneplant9434]

​@@mike74hNorah O'Donnell is not the official anchor on the CBS Evening News anymore.

[@mike74h]

@@yvonneplant9434 Yes, she will be until sometime after the election.

[@Chertoff88]

I'm sold old I remember when 60 Minutes wasn't state run propaganda.