Many people dont know just how important the National Archives in Washington D.C. really are. Not only do they boast a vast array of books and trinkets from the past but also host a library that registered library goers can access. Archives link the past and future and without them we would not get the full story. Researchers in the videos I watched explained that throughout history when records have not been written down stories tend to change, offering a story with to many endings (meaning a story that is told in many different ways.) The National Archives has many historical records but out of everything in the museum only 1-3 % of it is kept forver. These documents that are kept forever are the most important to the Federal Government as well as for we the people to be able to access them. I enjoyed the early maps and artifacts of the early crusaders to America, This exhibit kept very good records of how the spaniards landed and where they set up camps in early America also the portraits of battles fought are depicted very well, as if the artist had read archived information and then draw what he saw.
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