The world is fascinated with a newly discovered photo that claims to show Amelia Earhart being held by the Japanese in 1937. Thatās supposed to be her in the photo above with her back to the camera. The only problem is that experts at the US National Archives arenāt so sure about key assertions made in some of thisā¦
Remember the day after the inauguration? Okay, we were hungover, too, but do you remember how Trump might haveĀ violated federal records-keeping laws by illegally deleting his tweets while in office? Turns out, the National Archives also heard about that and took action.
Eva Braunās home movies of Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi officials are a terrifying time capsule of just how ordinary the most evil men in history can appear. The films show Hitler playing with children, Goebbels goofing around, and SS soldiers playfully chasing dogs. But the original 16mm films, which wereā¦
On September 17, the National Archives published a seemingly routine announcement in the Federal Registrar. Couched in language about preserving records of value is a line about the destruction of records and a list of federal agencies. The CIA is one of these agencies, and its emails about waterboarding could be someā¦
The National Archives in the United States have, for the first time, made all the results of a U.S. Census available online. After 72 years, confidentiality rules protecting personal information given in the U.S. Census expire. So now you can read every answer given to census takers in the 1940 census, includingā¦
It was spring cleaning time at the NSA, who dropped a staggering 50,000 pages of declassified documents into the hands of the National Archives. A lot's on the mundane sideāso here are the best looking eight:
