National Archives at College Park’s website warned visitors that the general public would lose access to the facility. It’s ...

Called "The American Story," the new permanent exhibition will guide museumgoers through two million historic documents and ...

The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive. This citizen-led ...

During the French Revolution, national records in Paris survived, but regional archives were torched. In 1794, the local ...

The National Archives, built to safeguard America's heritage, holds more than 13.5 billion paper records. But it's been in the news lately for what was missing: certain presidential papers.

The National Security Archive has warned that if the chronically underfunded National Archives is to cope with the overwhelming needs of the digital age, its 2025 budget of $481.1 million should ...

The National Archives is their final landing spot. Among those are the nation’s precious founding documents, including the original Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

Scott Simon talks to Colleen Shogan who leads the National Archives about the challenges facing the agency in a time of deep political polarization. How do you preserve the documents that help ...

The National Archives released nearly 2,200 files Tuesday related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, after President Trump pledged to make the remaining documents available to the ...

The National Archives is currently looking for volunteers who have the ability to read cursive writing to help them transcribe and tag records of over 200 years' worth of documents. Amid the rise ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...