The National Archives is using AI to help with public records requests, among other efforts to make its holdings more accessible, said Colleen Shogan, left, the Archivist of the United States, ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...

“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.

A new $40-million exhibit, opening nine months after President Trump fired the chief archivist, uses technology to explore the 13 billion-plus items in its vaults.