This week marks Dr. Shogan’s one year anniversary as 11th Archivist of the United States! Since May 2023, Dr. Shogan has visited 26 sites representing the National Archives, traveling over 32,000 miles, with plans to visit the remaining locations by the end of 2024.
On May 13, Dr. Shogan invited people to come explore hockey-related records at the National Archives. From records of the “Miracle on Ice” team in the 1980 Winter Olympics to this charming photo of children playing ice hockey, there’s much to see in our Catalog! https://archives.gov/news/topics/hockey
On May 14, in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, Dr. Shogan posted about Irving Berlin, an immigrant of Russian-Jewish descent, who composed the hit Broadway musical, This is the Army, to raise money for U.S. troops and elevate morale during #WWII. The show was adapted into a film starring Ronald Reagan. https://archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/summer/irving-berlin-1
Also on May 14, Dr. Shogan welcomed colleagues from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
On May 15, in honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month, Dr. Shogan posted about the historic moment of President Bill Clinton watching South Korean President Kim Young-sam prepare a calligraphy scroll in Seoul, South Korea. The scroll was presented to President Clinton during a diplomatic reception. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2694395
Also on May 15, Dr. Shogan welcomed Dr. Julia Azari and her students from the Marquette University Political Science Department to the National Archives.
On May 16, Dr. Shogan posted about the new state-of-the-art digitization center! This new digitization center will help us meet our strategic goal of digitizing and making available 500 million pages of records by September 30, 2026. http://archives.gov/news/articles/mass-digitization-center-college-park-opening #MakeAccessHappen
Also on May 16, Dr. Shogan reunited with David Mayhew at the Congress & History conference organized by Princeton University.
Dr. Shogan posted she was honored to provide the opening remarks at the insightful National Archives panel on the legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education, 70 years later, featuring former law clerks of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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