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The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive.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 ...

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 Archives and Records Administration is running out of space for paper records, as seen in Stack 390 on Sept. 6 in College Park, Md. (Maansi Srivastava for The Washington Post) Thirty ...

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.

It's not just home to the U.S.'s founding documents. The National Archives safeguards about 13.5 billion paper records, including the check used to buy Alaska and Adolf Hitler's will.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...