Boxes of Top Secret Documents Go Missing
By Aaron Mehta and R. Jeffrey SmithiWatch NewsThe Justice Department has been increasingly eager to prosecute officials for leaks of classified...
By Aaron Mehta and R. Jeffrey SmithiWatch NewsThe Justice Department has been increasingly eager to prosecute officials for leaks of classified...
AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 05.03.2012
WASHINGTON — When J. David Goldin saw the recorded interview of baseball great Babe Ruth for sale on eBay he knew something was wrong. There was...
The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 05.09.2012
In 1940, there were only four cities in the county we didn't yet call Miami-Dade. Thanks to the National Archives, who last week released handwrit...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.04.2012
One has to wonder if nine-year-old Neil Armstrong, who once spent his days walking around St. Mary's, Ohio, ever imagined that he would eventually be the first to walk on the moon.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.30.2012
On April 2nd, after a long wait of 72 years, the 1940 census will be released, and in a historic first, the collection will emerge online in digitized form -- a remarkable snapshot of a nation still recovering from the Great Depression and not yet aware of its approaching entry into war.
AP | JAMIE STENGLE | Posted 05.27.2012
DALLAS — Among the items U.S. soldiers seized from Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Alps hideaway in the closing days of World War II were albums meticul...
AP | Posted 02.10.2012
WASHINGTON -- Documents from the National Archives are going on view to explore the life of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, diplomat, philanthropist...
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.03.2012
WASHINGTON — A 715-year old copy of Magna Carta will soon return to public view at the National Archives after a conservation effort removed old...
The Washington Post | Lisa De Moraes October 6, 2011 | Posted 12.07.2011
The world's most-famous architect sailed into a storm of old-fashioned Washington controversy this week. At a public conversation Wednesday at the ...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.31.2011
No wonder Uncle Sam looks so pained; he's been getting his arm twisted by lobbyists for nearly a hundred years. And food is no different.
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2011
WASHINGTON - High-tech detective work has failed to solve a puzzle from the Watergate scandal that destroyed Richard Nixon's presidency. Forensic s...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 08.01.2011
WASHINGTON -- The National Archives, the hallowed repository of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and America's most treasured re...
The Guardian | Sam Jones | Posted 07.05.2011
Despite a reputation for reaching for their revolvers at the merest mention of culture, the Nazis were among the most ruthless, avaricious and methodi...
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
Novelist Brad Meltzer weaves a story of political intrigue, but his latest novel The Inner Circle feels like a story only half told.
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — An audit prompted in part by the loss of the Wright Brothers' original patent and maps for atomic bomb missions in Japan finds some...
AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN MARINO, Calif. — The Nuremberg Laws, the documents that took away Jews' rights to German citizenship and laid the groundwork for the executi...
Frank Sesno | Posted 05.25.2011
If last week's White House GreenGov 2010 Symposium was any indication, working towards environmental sustainability is a team effort. GreenGov makes ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an alleged UFO incident in the 1950s be kept secret to prevent "mass panic," according to clai...
The Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011
Duke graduate student Julia Gaffield made history when she uncovered the only known printed copy of Haiti's Declaration of Independence. Gaffield, ...
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011
Pressure is growing on the Justice Department to produce supposedly "deleted" e-mails that could reveal whether government lawyers in the Bush administration were instructed to devise legal justifications for torture.
Talking Points Memo | Evan McMorris-Santoro | Posted 05.25.2011
The National Archives plans to release hundreds of thousands of new documents and photos from the Nixon administration and 12 hours of new audio recor...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
The National Archives is like a safe-deposit box for America's really important papers -- the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the $7....
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the ...
Al Eisele | Posted 05.25.2011
It was more than 39 years ago when Elvis Presley ushered him into the Oval Office to meet President Nixon, but it seems like only yesterday to Sonny West.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
Nixon did more than simply sit by and passively listen to anti-black tirades by a trusted aide; he frequently spewed those same offensive racial epithets himself.
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012