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

The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive.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

After Confederation, some of the country’s oldest records were stashed in a loft in the reading room of the Centre Block on Parliament Hill. That’s where a fire started in 1916 that destroyed the ...

We celebrate the Declaration of Independence as the “opening act” for a series of “main events” that that laid the foundation ...

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American founding, we must confront the hard truth that democracies are not ...

Penn Township author Ron Kirkwood spent 17 days in 2022 at the National Archives in Washington, DC, scouring hundreds of ...

The Browning Automatic Rifle is often criticized for its M1918A2 configuration used throughout World War II, but what did the ...

Toast America’s birthday with fireworks, parades, concerts and other events in and around Washington, D.C.

More than 70 million Americans are enrolled in the program, which could be facing its biggest overhaul in decades.

Ancestry and the National Archives have digitized 2 million Korean War draft cards. The project offers insights into lives of ...

Community groups and Terminal Islanders — descendants of the Japanese American community that once thrived there — say ICE is ...