150th Commemoration Videos and Programs

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  Filled With Stories: The Homestead Digitization Process

  Learn about how Homestead National Monument of America and its partners and volunteers are working to preserve historic homestead records that are kept in the National Archives.

 

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  Beginning of the Dream:  Homestead Act Made Law

  Extended Version
  
  Learn how the National Archives protects and preserves one of America's most significant pieces of legislation, the Homestead Act of 1862.

 

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  Homestead Act Exhibit Opening

  The Homestead Act of 1862 officially went on display at Homestead National Monument of America on April 25, 2012.  This was the only time in the document's history that all four pages had been on display outside of Washington D.C.  This video is about the opening of this very significant exhibit.