National Archives News
- All National Archives research rooms will be closed on Monday, February 18, in observance of Washington's Birthday. Museums in Washington, DC, and at the Presidential libraries will be open.
- The
LBJ Library has released love letters exchanged by the future President and First Lady.
- You can now manage your research card account online (add funds, change passwords, and more).
- The National Archives at New York City is now open at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House.
- Apply for a Regional Residency Fellowship to do research at one of regional archives.
- See free screenings of Oscar-nominated documentaries and shorts at the National Archives in Washington.
- The Electoral College has met and voted! Learn about the Federal Register's role in this video.
- The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is now on Twitter and Facebook.
- A display, "Nixon and the U.S. Space Program," kicks off a year of Presidential centennials.
- A new eBook on the Emancipation Proclamation is now available.
- Our Citizen Archivist initiative wins the Gellhorn Innovation Award.
- Public Interest Declassification Board issued its report to the President.
- Learn about National Archives records that document the path to citizenship in this new video.
- Unsealed material from U.S. v. Liddy now open to the public.
- Explore new interactive Electoral College maps on the Federal Register's Electoral College website.
- "Citizen scientists" to transcribe digitized Historic Navy deck logs.
- Robert F. Kennedy papers relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis opened.
- New app from GPO and Federal Register gives easier access to Presidential documents.
- FOIAonline launched to expand public access to information requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
- Exhibit on the Cuban Missile Crisis opens 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.
- 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.
- The George W. Bush Library has launched its new website.
- 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 video goes behind the scenes to look at digitizing Civil War widows' pension files.
- Records of the DC Emancipation Act of 1862 are featured in a video.
- A DocsTeach app for the iPad is now available.
- A video takes you inside the Titanic-related records in the National Archives.
- The 1940 census is now open!
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