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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

Unwritten Record

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). Researchers for the most part came to Washington, D.C.,

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Pakistan-linked Transparent Tribe APT expands its arsenal

Security Affairs

The Operation Transparent Tribe (Operation C-Major, APT36, and Mythic Leopard) was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of cyber espionage operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. ” read the analysis published Cisco Talos.

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Why Archives?

Archives Blogs

Earlier this month we asked some of our users to write about their favourite items from our collections for #FavouriteItem on the 2nd April and one of our users seemed to have highlighted beautifully why we think of archives as being so special and so key for research. Complete run of Tsopano from the archive. revolutionary.

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World War II Records Digitized

Unwritten Record

World War II records from the Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department (Record Group 407) have been digitized and are available to view and download from the National Archives Catalog. Among these are maps of Tunisia annotated to show military operations at Kasserine Pass.

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The Problem Solvers

Unwritten Record

The USACE is not only responsible for the building of large-scale military projects but also a major chunk of the country’s civil engineering works as well. It then goes into detail about the specific functions that the corps performs, beginning with the military side.

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Introducing Films of State, a Conference on Government Films

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We’ve partnered with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies program and gathered an international slate of scholars to discuss some of the latest research on films made by the US government, covering federal organizations from the United States Army Signal Corps to the Office of Economic Opportunity and everything in between.

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Recent events at the Innovation Hub

Archives Blogs

Recently, we welcomed two student groups to the Innovation Hub who were interested in learning more about the work of the National Archives, how to conduct research, and ways to participate in scanning documents to make them more accessible online. Applied History students outside the National Archives Building in Washington, DC.