National Archives News
- All National Archives research rooms will be closed on Monday, October 8, in observance of Columbus Day. Museums in Washington, DC, and at the Presidential libraries will be open.
- Exhibit on the Cuban Missile Crisis opens at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
- Register for the annual Preservation Conference on October 19 at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
- Materials related to the Katyn massacre during World War II have been declassified.
- New reproduction fees starting October 1.
- The National Archives has a new home in the Denver area.
- Information Security Oversight Office releases Fundamental Classification Guidance Review.
- Federal records management overhaul announced.
- Learn about "Attachments," our current exhibit, in this new video.
- The National Archives at New York City will have a new location in the fall.
- A new research page commemorates the anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act.
- The Federal Register has a new director.
- The National Declassification Center has issued its fifth biannual report.
- Ellis Island immigration exhibit opens July 21 in Atlanta.
- The George W. Bush Library has launched its new website.
- Barry Landau has been sentenced for thefts from the National Archives and other institutions.
- The Treaty of Ghent is on exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery and the Canadian War Museum. Both are on loan from the National Archives.
- "Attachments," a new exhibit about immigration, is on display in Washington, DC.
- The National Archives has released its updated Open Government Plan.
- Centennials of Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson celebrated in exhibits and website.
- ISOO issues its annual report.
- National Archives Leads Restoration of John Huston's Let There Be Light.
- NHPRC grants for Documentary Editing and Archival Projects awarded.
- Immigration files opened in San Francisco and research center named for Tom Lantos.
- Largest photography exhibit ever on the Roosevelts now at FDR Library.
- A new video goes behind the scenes to look at digitizing Civil War widows' pension files.
- See the Homestead Act of 1862 at the Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, NE, through May 28.
- Our Genealogy Fair was held on April 18-19 in Washington, DC.
- Records of the DC Emancipation Act of 1862 are featured in a new video.
- A DocsTeach app for the iPad is now available.
- A new video takes you inside the Titanic-related records in the National Archives.
- Apply for the 2012 Legislative Archives Fellowship.
- The 1940 census is now open!
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