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From WWII documents to digital downloads: ASU Library celebrates 80 years with the Federal Depository Library Program
In 1944, while the world was watching D-Day, President Franklin Roosevelt’s fourth-term election and the adoption of the G.I. Bill, Arizona State University (ASU) Library was also making history. The institution was known as the Arizona State Teachers College, and the library became a newly designat...
5 Ways to Learn about Arizona History Using the National Register of Historic Places
Did you know that there are over 1,500 Arizona sites on the National Register of Historic Places? This list, established by the National Preservation Act of 1966, includes historically significant sites in American history, archaeology, architecture and culture, which are recognized for preservati...
Preserving America’s Cultural Touchstones: the National Register of Historic Places
What do Taliesin West, the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign and the Hoover Dam have in common? They are all properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. “Frank Lloyd Wright's ‘Taliesin West,’ his winter home and architectural sc...
Government Information: An Overlooked Gem
CJ Garcia, Scholarly Communication Intern Handy, Levin C, photographer. Construction of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Washington D.C. United States, 1894. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2007664064/. Government inf...