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Judge: Cheney Won't Dump Records
A federal judge yesterday rejected historians’ and nonprofits’ complaint that Vice President Dick Cheney planned to illegally dump some of his papers, the Washington Post reports. The judge instead...
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Lost-and-Found Letter Shows Lincoln's Terse Side
A handwritten note dated just a few days before Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has finally made its way back to the National Archives, the Washington Post reports. The terse communication from...
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Decades of US Immigration History Comes to Light
The US is sending the files on some 21 million immigrants to the National Archives, revealing volumes of early 20th-century history, USA Today reports. The documents tell the stories of celebrities...
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Plan Could Divine Missing Watergate Minutes, CSI-Style
A Watergate hobbyist has a plan to discover what was discussed during the 18½ minutes erased from a taped conversation between President Nixon and his chief of staff after the break-in. Phil Mellinger...
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WWII GI Returns Looted 16th Century German Books
Retired optometrist Robert Thomas handed a pair of books he filched as an 18-year-old GI 64 years ago to the German ambassador in a ceremony at the National Archives this week. Thomas, 83, found the...
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Historian Faked Date on Key Lincoln Artifact
An Abraham Lincoln researcher has confessed to changing the date on a Lincoln document, effectively altering history for his own gain, AOL News reports. Thomas Lowry changed the date from April 14,...
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40 Years Later, Pentagon Papers Officially Released
The National Archives has at long last published the entire 7,000-page Vietnam report known as the Pentagon Papers . The documents are among the most important in modern presidential history, leading...
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SEC Shredded Files to Cover Up Crimes: Whistleblower
Police aren’t generally in the habit of destroying evidence from failed investigations—but the SEC is, according to one whistleblower. SEC attorney Darcy Flynn spilled the beans to Congress in July,...
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1940 Census Site Crashed By Curious
The National Archives wasn't prepared for just how many people would be clamoring to check out its newly released trove of detailed data from the 1940 census . Hordes of curious browsers flooded the...
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Lincoln's Funeral? Rare Photos May Capture the Moment
Two photographs hidden in the National Archives for decades may be rare images of Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession in New York City, the Washington Post reports. They capture the blur of a big...
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Declaration of Independence Transcript May Hold Error
It's being hailed as "the battle of the period." Is a small spec of ink that appears on the Declaration of Independence a period or not? In a draft paper that one historian calls "a remarkably...
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Clinton Only Used Personal Email at State
Hillary Clinton's communications as secretary of the State Department may have broken the rules. She used a personal email account, the New York Times reports, and it seems she didn't have a government...
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Top-Secret JFK Files Coming Soon—Maybe
The 1992 JFK Records Act established that 40,000 documents relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy would be made public in October 2017. Now that the date is little more than two years away,...
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Missing Patent for Wright Bros' 'Flying Machine' Found in Cave
Missing for decades, the Wright brothers' patent for their "Flying Machine" was found last month in a manila envelope among 15-foot-high stacks of patent files in a limestone cave outside a small...
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What Clinton, Bush Told Their Successors Released
It may be many years before the contents of the letter President Obama will leave in the White House for Donald Trump Friday morning are known to the public, but the notes from the two previous...
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White House Advised to Keep Deleted Trump Tweets
The National Archives wants to preserve all of President Trump's tweets for the historical record—including ones deleted because of misspellings. Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero wrote...
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Declaration of Independence Copy Is Unlike All the Others
An amazing find by Harvard researchers has brought the number of known parchment copies of the Declaration of Independence to two: One in DC's National Archives, and one in a tiny records office in the...
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Trump Has Big Decision to Make on Secret JFK Files
A happy day for historians and conspiracy theorists could be right around the corner. A 1992 law mandated that all materials related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination be maintained in a...
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Why Obama's Library Won't Have Original Documents
President Obama's Chicago-based presidential library will differ in one big way from the 13 other presidential libraries that exist around the country. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the Obama...
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Earhart Investigators: This Photo Proves She Survived
A new History documentary floats one of the most provocative theories yet about Amelia Earhart: The show focuses on a newly surfaced photo that some think proves she and navigator Fred Noonan survived...
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