Categories: HISTORY

Top 10 of 2023 – Pieces of History


As we say hello to 2024, we’re taking a look at the most popular posts of 2023. Thank you to the National Archives staff who helped us share our love of history throughout the year!

10. As a big shout-out to our nurses who have had it especially hard these past few years, Jen Hivick’s post on Pandemic Nursing: The 1918 Influenza Outbreak comes in at number 10. 

Nurses in Boston hospitals equipped to fight influenza, 5/12/1919. (National Archives Identifier 45499377)

9. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Callie Belback’s post On the Basis of Sex: Equal Credit Opportunities looks at the history of credit discrimination against women in the United States.

President Ford signed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act Amendments and the Consumer Leasing Act into law on March 23, 1976. (Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library)

8. Fifty years ago a major fire in St. Louis destroyed millions of military personnel records. In eighth place is the first in a three-part series on the National Personnel Records Center Fire by Jen Hivick. 

NPRC fire damage, July 13, 1973. (National Archives Identifier 293518094)

7. Coming in seventh place is a post on Constitution Day: Remembering Our Responsibilities and Opportunities as Citizens, which looks at the history of the national celebration of Constitution Day.

Naturalization Ceremony at the National Archives on Constitution Day, September 17, 1985. (Records of the National Archives)

6. For International Cat Day, Alyssa Moore’s post looks at the history of our favorite felines at the White House in Office of the First Cat, which comes in at number six. 

Socks Clinton lounges at podium in the White House Press Briefing Room, 1993. (National Archives Identifier 236748090)

5. For the release of the motion picture Oppenheimer, Alyssa Moore’s post on The Calutron Girls in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during World War II, comes in at number five.

Calutron Operators in Oak Ridge, Tennessee During World War II. (National Archives Identifier 241166506)

4. The tradition of the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony began in 1923 when President Calvin Coolidge lit a 48-foot balsam fir from Vermont that was erected in the middle of the Ellipse. Our fourth most popular post marks the 100th anniversary of the National Christmas Tree lighting.

President Reagan with Nancy Reagan and their dog Rex during the ceremony to light the National Christmas Tree, 12/12/1985. (National Archives Identifier 75854519)

3. For baseball’s Opening Day in March, the post Ceremonial First Pitches, which highlights photos from our Presidential Libraries, comes in at number three. 

President George W. Bush throws first pitch at Cincinnati Reds game in Cincinnati, Ohio, 4/3/2006. (National Archives Identifier 148035478)

2. Coming in at number two is a celebration of the life of Dr. Charles Drew: A Pioneer in Blood Transfusions.

Dr. Charles Drew by Charles Alston, ca. 1942–ca. 1945. (National Archives Identifier 535693)

1. And in our top spot for 2023 is a post that traces the history of Thanksgiving as a Federal Holiday

Senate Amendments to H.J. Res. 41, Making the Fourth Thursday in November a Legal Holiday, December 9, 1941. (National Archives Identifier 200376684)

We also must mention a post that was published just one year ago but is now one of our most viewed posts of all time. Thomas’s Richardson’s blog about the end of the National Defense Service medal continues to receive numerous views and comments. 

Happy New Year!



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