National Archives

Walter Cronkite Records Destroyed By FBI

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media


A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite's name were destroyed in October 2007, t...

CSI Watergate: Are We about to Crack the Nixon Tape Mystery?

Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics


Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein

What was said during the 18 1/2-minute gap in Nixon's Watergate tapes?

National Archives Gone Missing: Lincoln Civil War Telegraphs, Photos Of The Moon, And More

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the m...

Pursuing Happiness (Part 2) Declaration 101

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living


Kenneth C. Davis

"Inalienable" or "unalienable"? Jefferson's drafts shows he wrote "inalienable." The parchment and printed versions use "unalienable."

The CIA Won't Put Its Declassified Documents Online

Mother Jones | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics


In a quiet, fluorescently lit room in the National Archives' auxiliary campus in suburban College Park, Maryland, 10 miles outside of Washington, are ...

Congress Pushes Judge To Secure Bush Records

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The new Congress on Thursday asked a federal judge to force the Bush White House to keep documents on the controversial firings of ...

Bush Data Threatens To Overload National Archives

New York Times | ROBERT PEAR and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 01.27.2009 | Politics


The National Archives has put into effect an emergency plan to handle electronic records from the Bush White House amid growing doubts about whether i...