May 1, 2013
September 15, 2012
Deadline
for
the Gerald R. Ford Foundation
Research Travel Grants. For more information about the
grants contact William
McNitt.
May 14, 2012
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation announced the list
of recipients of Research Travel Grants from the spring meeting
of the grants screening committee.
May 7, 2012
Although minutes of National Security Council meetings have been available on our web site for more than a dozen years, other documents from the collection National Security Adivser. National Security Council Meetings File have not. The Library has now completed the scanning of the entire collection (including withdrawal sheets for items that remain classified). View the collection.
May 2, 2012
The Library has completed the scanning of a selection of documents relating to Ford administration White House State Dinners. Document selection and much of the scanning for this project was completed by Library intern Melissa Hernandez, a student at the University of Michigan School of Information. Included are dinner menus, entertainment programs, photographs, and other documents relating to each dinner, along with a description of the dinner planning process written by Mrs. Ford's Social Secretary Maria Downs. View the documents.
April 27, 2012
The Library has now completed the digitization of 40 percent of the collection White House Press Releases. All press releases from the first year of the Ford administration are now available on our website. The press releases include transcripts of speeches, briefings, and press conferences; schedules; biographies; proposed legislation; press pool reports; etc. View digitized press releases.
April 25, 2012
The Library uploaded updated files for five digitized folders from the National Security Adviser collections Memoranda of Conversations and National Security Study Memoranda and Decision Memoranda. As additional documents or portions of documents from these collections are declassified the Library updates the online files to keep them identical to what a researcher would see by visiting the Library.
April 23, 2012
The Library completed the digitization of the Frank Zarb Papers concerning his work as Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration during the Ford administration. All series have been digitized with the exception of his Scrapbook File. View the documents.
April 11, 2012
The Library completed the processing of five additional boxes
from the collection National Security Adviser. Kissinger-Scowcroft West Wing Office File. The first 32 boxes of the collection (subject file folders covering the letters A through U) are now processed and open to research. The boxes opened most recently focus on U.S. relations with the USSR, especially the frequent exchanges between Henry Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko or Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobynin during both the Nixon and Ford administrations. Processing of this collection continues and additional boxes will be made available as they are completed.
April 4, 2012
The Library has posted a list of documents declassified in whole or in part through the Mandatory Declassification Review process during the months of January to March 2012. You can also see lists of documents declassified in earlier quarters. Researchers may contact us for additional information about the newly opened documents or to order copies.
Please note that Mandatory Review is but one of the methods through which Ford Library documents are declassified. Many additional pages are opened each month through systematic declassification review and returns from the Remote Archive Capture project.
April 2, 2012
On the day that the 1940 census becomes available for research, the Library has a new page with links to images of President and Mrs. Ford's listings in the 1920 and 1930 census and an appeal to the public for assistance in finding them in the 1940 census.
March 27, 2012
The Library completed the processing of additional boxes
from the collection National Security Adviser. Kissinger-Scowcroft West Wing Office File. The first 32 boxes of the collection (subject file folders covering the letters A through U) are now processed and open to research. The boxes opened most recently focus on U.S. relations with the United Kingdom and the USSR. Processing of this collection continues and additional boxes will be made available as they are completed.
March 27, 2012
The Library has now completed the digitization of 20 percent of the collection White House Press Releases. Press releases covering August 9, 1974 to February 18, 1975 are now complete. The press releases include transcripts of speeches, briefings, and press conferences; schedules; biographies; proposed legislation; press pool reports; etc. View digitized press releases.
March 8, 2012
The Library completed the digitization of the second series of the Frank Zarb Papers. This series contains his testimony before congressional committees about the Federal Energy Administration and a variety of energy issues. View the documents.
February 22, 2012
The Library completed the digitization of the first series (more than two boxes) of the Frank Zarb Papers. This series contains memoranda from Federal Energy Administrator Zarb to President Ford from 1974 to 1976. The memoranda concern a wide variety of energy policy issues. View the documents.
January 25, 2012
The Library completed a re-digitization of the collection National Security Adviser. National Security Decision Memoranda and National Security Study Memoranda.
This brought the digitized collection up to our current standards in scanning quality and presentation. View the documents.
January 18, 2012
The Library completed the digitization of the Frederica Pantlind Papers. This small collection primarily focuses on Gerald Ford's time at the University of Michigan and Yale University in the 1930s. View the documents.
January 18, 2012
The Library completed the digitization of all seven oral history transcripts
from the Grand Rapids Oral History Collection. The oral histories focus on Gerald Ford's early life, his involvement in Republican politics in Grand Rapids, and his first campaign for Congress in 1948. View the transcripts.
January 17, 2012
The Library staff completed the systematic review of Boxes 1-30 of the Russell Armentrout Files which contain case files on White House social events, including state dinners. The series had previously been available for research on a review on request basis. View the collection finding aid.
January 10, 2012
The Library completed revisions to the National Security Adviser. NSC East Asian and Pacific Affairs Staff Files collection finding aid. The updated finding aid is available online.
January 10, 2012
The Library completed the processing and description for a small collection of Charles T. Miller Telegrams. The collection primarily contains marine telegrams between Miller, captain of the merchant ship SS Mayaguez, and officials from Sea-Land Service, Inc., the ship’s parent company. The messages were exchanged shortly before the ship and crew were seized by Khmer Rouge armed forces and after they were recovered by U.S. armed forces in May 1975. For more details on the collection, view its finding
aid.
January 6, 2012
The Library completed the processing of additional boxes
from the collection National Security Adviser. Kissinger-Scowcroft West Wing Office File. The first 23 boxes of the collection (subject file folders covering the letters A through S) are now processed and open to research. Processing of this collection continues and additional boxes will be made available as they are completed.
January 4, 2012
The Library has posted a list of documents declassified in whole or in part through the Mandatory Declassification Review process during the months of October to December 2011. You can also see lists of documents declassified in earlier quarters. Researchers may contact us for additional information about the newly opened documents or to order copies.
Please note that Mandatory Review is but one of the methods through which Ford Library documents are declassified. Many additional pages are opened each month through systematic declassification review and returns from the Remote Archive Capture project.
See News Notes for Ford Library Researchers for the year 2011