Learn what to expect when you research at the National Archives. This video addresses how to enter the National Archives building in Washington, DC, what security measures the National Archives uses, what you're allowed to bring into the research ...

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Immigration records at the National Archives tell the story of people entering America's gates — and in some cases being turned away. In this Inside the Vaults video short, senior curator Bruce Bustard and exhibit designer Ray Ruskin present their...

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Out of the Dark: Bringing Films to Light at the National Archives (2012), a behind-the-scenes look at NARA's Motion Picture, Sound and Video Office and The Film Preservation Laboratory.

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The video takes viewers inside the preservation lab at the National Archives where specialists construct custom boxes for items as varied as a Cold War-era pistol and a 1761 Indian treaty. The boxes can be simple affairs, built to house a book -...

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The Citizen Archivist Dashboard is NARA's new crowdsourcing tool for tagging, transcription, digitization of records, and more. Meredith Stewart demonstrates the various collaboration tools in the dashboard and discusses how the dashboard fits int...

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The National Archives is now changing the way we take custody of records from federal agencies. We are now using the Electronic Records Archives, or ERA. ERA is not only a system for storing electronic records. We are currently transferring perman...

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This Inside the Vaults video short illustrates the primary purpose of the National Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO — to preserve the nation's military personnel files in perpetuity and to make them available to veterans and othe...

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The new NPRC building features a research room open to the general public. This video provides a tour of the room and the resources available to genealogists, historians and anyone with an interest in researching archival military personnel record...

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Go behind-the-scenes to see NPRC's new state-of-the-art preservation lab. In 1973 a fire in NPRC's former building destroyed 18 million military personnel files. Six million more were recovered with varying degrees of fire and water damage. As ind...

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This video introduces the National Archives Federal Records Centers and National Archives records management services for federal agencies. For more information, visit http://www.archives.gov/frc/.

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The National Archives at Atlanta is a center for the study of family history in the United States and particularly in the South. This video provides a brief overview of the services of the National Archives at Atlanta and how researchers can disc...

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2011 Records Management Self-Assessment

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The National Archives and Records Administration is building the Electronic Records Archives to fulfill its mission in the digital age: to safeguard and preserve the records of our government, ensure that the public can discover, use, and learn fr...

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At the National Personnel Records Center of the National Archives in Valmeyer, Illinois, Archives staff explain the services available to other federal agencies that wish to digitize and/or store their records.

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This Inside the Vaults video short demonstrates how visitors can use the National Archives' new online search engine for its vast archival holdings. Try it out at http://www.archives.gov/research/search. Inside the Vaults includes highlights fr...

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Learn more about the National Archives at Kansas City by watching this brief video and how the documents, photographs and artifacts tell the story of who we are as a people and as a nation.

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This Inside the Vaults video short features Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero as he discusses public contributions to the National Archives. He encourages independent researchers to be "citizen archivists," becoming involved in the ...

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The original Declaration of Independence is on display in the Rotunda of the National Archives. In this Inside the Vaults video short, supervisory conservator Catherine Nicholson discusses the conservation treatment and re-encasement of the docume...

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The Oklahoma Historical Society is an Affiliated Archives for the records of the Five Civilized Tribes (Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indians), as well as the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Tribes of Oklahoma. Affiliated Archives ...

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The Boeing Learning Center offers an extensive array of tools for teachers, parents and community leaders interested in expanding children's knowledge of American history, and the role of the National Archives in a democracy.

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Watch this vintage introductory film to the National Archives from 1940. For more information about the National Archives today, visit http://www.archives.gov and http://www.archives.gov/nae Transcript (PDF): http://archives.gov/social-media/tr...

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What is the National Archives and Records Administration? It's more than the home of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. It's more than the nine billion documents in its holdings. The National Archives is the nation'...

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From underground caves in Lee's Summit, Missouri to palm tree-lined facilities in Riverside, California, the Federal Records Center has safeguarded the nation's records since 1950. Everything from citizen tax returns, Official Military Personnel ...

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Every four years the Federal Register — part of the National Archives and Records Administration — administers the Electoral College. The Federal Register informs the governments of the fifty states and the District of Columbia what is required t...

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