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 ...

A dozen students and staff members worked on a custom hand press to create special archival paper for the Declaration of ...

The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive.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 is their final landing spot. Among those are the nation’s precious founding documents, including the original Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

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 ...

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 and Records Administration keeps millions of historic documents and photos, such as this image of the Nazis' vaunted Afrika Korps as they surrendered in 1943.

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 ...

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 ...

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.