60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act

August 6, 2025, marked 60 years since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. 

The Voting Rights Act is now on display through August 27, 2025, at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC. In addition, visit the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum online to view photos from the signing of this historic piece of legislation.

The Voting Rights Act of August 6, 1965. NAID: 299909

President Hoover’s Birthday

Born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa, Herbert Hoover would later found the Commission for Relief in Belgium during World War I, serve as Secretary of Commerce, and go on to become the 31st President of the United States.

Visit the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum online to learn more.

Herbert Hoover, President of U.S., ca. 1929. NAID: 523744202

Progressing Toward Fully Electronic Records

Federal agencies have made important strides in digital records management. About 71 percent of federal agencies reported meeting the deadline for managing their permanent records in an electronic format, according to William Fischer, Acting Chief Records Officer at the National Archives.

NARA recently issued a new guide for managing federal records that better accounts for electronic recordkeeping.

A researcher views an electronic record in the National Archives Catalog, September 21, 2018. NAID: 493463432