Featured Exhibits
The National Archives: Documented Rights
The exhibit's selected documents, photographs, and original testimonies exemplify the range and depth of National Archives holdings chronicling the evolution of human and civil rights in the United States.
The Deadly Virus
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918: One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.
Every Four Years: Electing a President
Every four years Americans go to the polls to elect their President. The campaign for President is steeped in tradition, combining ritual, celebration, marketing and bombast, all leading up to Election Day when citizens enter the voting booth to exercise their solemn right to choose their leaders.
Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman
Just in time for the Presidential campaign, political cartoons from the first half of the 20th century provide relevant commentary and fascinating insight into the campaigns and elections of today.
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The Charters of Freedom
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, & the Bill of Rights.
Designs for Democracy
Explore more than 100 designs highlighting 200 years of Government drawings.
The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults
Exploring the Digital Vaults is easy. You can browse through the hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips and discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records.
Eyewitness
Gripping eyewitness accounts—in the form of letters, diaries, audio and film recordings—chronicle dramatic moments in U.S. history.
John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago
View Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer John H. White's images of 1970s Chicago.
The Way We Worked
Work and workplaces have gone through enormous transformations between the mid 19th and late 20th centuries. View these changes through photographs.