On December 10, 2024, Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen J. Shogan recognized Nobel Prize Day on social media by highlighting Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903 and for chemistry in 1911. Photo: National Archives Identifier 20005658.
On December 11, 2024, Dr. Shogan met with Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs and his staff at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
Also on December 11, Dr. Shogan posted an example of a needlework sampler saying, “Needlework samplers played a fascinating role in verifying identity for pension applications during the Revolutionary War era. This one was stitched by Mary Hearn of Nantucket in 1793.” Read more here.
On December 12, 2024, Dr. Shogan posted an example from the the collection of USDA reindeer recipes was published in 1938. “It probably went down in popularity one year later when Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was introduced to the world by Robert L. May.”
In honor of Bill of Rights Day (December 15), the National Archives hosted a naturalization ceremony at 10 a.m. on Friday, December 13. The private ceremony, held in the historic National Archives Rotunda, saw 25 people sworn in as new U.S. citizens in front of the Bill of Rights and our nation’s other founding documents.
Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan and special guest Lidia Bastianich provided remarks.
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