The National Archives

 
 
This is the 75th anniversary of the National Archives in Washington, D.C.   Etched into the stone of the National Archives are “What is Past is Prologue” and "Study the Past." 
 

 Franklin D. Roosevelt explained its importance:

“To bring together the records of the past and to house them in a building where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a Nation must believe in three things.  It must believe in the past.  It must believe in the future.  It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain judgment in creating their own future.”

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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