todaysdocument: Announcing the National Archives Transcription Pilot Project!  You can help the National Archives make historical documents more accessible by contributing to transcriptions! Transcriptions help in searching for the document as well as in reading and understanding the document. The work you do transcribing a handwritten or typed document will help the next person discover and use that record. Available documents include letters to a civil war spy, presidential records, suffrage petitions, and fugitive slave case files, and today’s featured document - the Credentials of Hiram Rhodes Revels.  Start Transcribing »

todaysdocument:

Announcing the National Archives Transcription Pilot Project! 

You can help the National Archives make historical documents more accessible by contributing to transcriptions!

Transcriptions help in searching for the document as well as in reading and understanding the document. The work you do transcribing a handwritten or typed document will help the next person discover and use that record.

Available documents include letters to a civil war spy, presidential records, suffrage petitions, and fugitive slave case files, and today’s featured document - the Credentials of Hiram Rhodes Revels. 

Start Transcribing »