The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to briefly close when NARA fired its probationary employees in February. The RIFs will mark only a portion of the staffing ...

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.

National Archives Releases More Robert F. Kennedy Files. The new batch of documents included transcripts of police interviews with Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of killing Mr. Kennedy.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As we celebrate Independence Day, the National Archives in Washington, D.C. is letting the public view ...

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 ...

Starting later this year, visitors to the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C. will be able to chart their own course through America’s past with a new choose-your-own-adventure-style ...

The National Archives released on Wednesday a second tranche of documents related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, though the documents are unlikely to change ...

National Archives at College Park’s website warned visitors that the general public would lose access to the facility. It’s since been retracted but confusion remains.

Screenshot: National Archives. You are free to look at, and even edit, existing transcriptions. The real fun, though, is transcribing fresh pages. To find one, ...