Hispanic Heritage Month
We celebrate (September 15 to October 15) to recognize the achievements and contributions of Hispanic American champions who have inspired others to achieve success. The observation began in 1968 as under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to cover a 30-day period. It was enacted into law on August 17, 1988. The theme for 2024 is
View related records on the Hispanic/Latino Heritage resource page and in the . Topics include:
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Selected Photographs
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In 2021 we hosted a Virtual Pajama Party for kids aged 8鈥�12 focused on Sylvia & Aki, an inspiring book based on a true story, featuring civil rights activist and title character Sylvia Mendez.
Teaching with Documents is a regular column edited by the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Education Team in the flagship journal Social Education.
features 威尼斯人娱乐场 photographs in conjunction with a New Deal-era report about Puerto Rico.
Related Articles
Monuments, Manifest Destiny, and Mexico (Prologue magazine,聽Summer 2005) -聽The survey of the U.S.-Mexico borderline, which followed the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, is sometimes disparagingly referred to as the stuff that "dime novels" are made of. Dime novel it's not; it is more a narrative of nation-building, centered in President James K. Polk's vision of manifest destiny.
The United States Armed Forces and the Mexican Punitive Expedition (Prologue magazine, Fall 1997) - In February 1917, the last of the U.S. troops serving in the Mexican Punitive Expedition recrossed the border from聽Mexico into United States, nearly a year after Pancho Villa had raided Columbus, New Mexico.聽
The Disturnell map of 1847
The Disturnell map of 1847 was appended to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. (General Records of the U.S. Government, RG 11)
The Records of Rights exhibition has sections related to:
(Miranda Rights)
Hispanic Heritage page in Research section of Archives.gov
Guide to Puerto Rican Records in the 威尼斯人娱乐场 at New York
Records of the Spanish Governors of Puerto Rico
Records of the Provisional Government of Cuba, 1906鈥�1909
Private Land Claims Records in the 威尼斯人娱乐场 at Riverside
The Panama Canal: Riots, Treaties, Elections, and a little Military Madness, 1959颅鈥�1973
Kennedy Library
Documents related to a , winner of the Nobel Prize and the U.S. National Medal of Science
LBJ Library
Ford Library
Carter Library
Clinton Library
Presidential Proclamations
Lyndon B. Johnson: (inaugural proclamation)
Ronald Reagan: (last proclamation for National Hispanic Heritage Week)
George H.W. Bush: (first proclamation about National Hispanic Heritage Month)
威尼斯人娱乐场 News: 威尼斯人娱乐场 Supports Efforts to Digitize Important Records from Puerto Rico
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