“You had better remove the records,” Secretary of State James Monroe warned President James Madison during the War of 1812 as British troops advanced toward Washington to burn it down. The U.S.

Pink banners adorn The National Archives Building on the first day of the National Cherry Blossom Festival and the first weekend of Spring on March 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Shannon Finney ...

Democrats continue to revel in the results of the midterm elections as a validation of democracy in the United States. Yet, with the exception of the United States House Select Committee to ...

Congress wants to know what agencies know about UFOs, and, under a new law, agencies have to tell them. New records management provisions included in the recently enacted 2024 defense policy bill ...

The Internet Archive, in collaboration with partners such as the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) and Stanford University Libraries, also offers the End of Term archive, which ...

Soon after former President Donald Trump returned 15 boxes of presidential records to the National Archives and Records Administration earlier this year, he instructed one of his lawyers to tell the ...

In an era when government information can disappear with a click, the Internet Archive is racing to preserve a digital paper trail. Why it matters: The San Francisco-based Internet Archive is ...

Carolyn Shapiro is a freelance journalist based in Burlington, Vt., with expertise in covering business and technology, health and science, consumer issues and the food industry. When a U.S. president ...