For the first time, nine of the United States' founding documents have made it to Atlanta as part of the commemoration of ...

The National Archives are touring several documents, including one of just a few original copies of the Declaration of ...

The National Archives has launched a nationwide tour transporting rare founding-era documents to cities across the United States ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.

HONORABLE GENTLEMEN, IT’S NOT POSSIBLE TO FORESEE THE CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN ACTION YET IS NEVERTHELESS A DUTY WE OWE OURSELVES. THE WORDS OF AMERICA’S FOUNDING FATHERS CAREFULLY PRESERVED THROUGHOUT ...

The papers might have seemed ordinary in their time: letters, invoices, receipts, logs, diary entries. But their contents, signatories or ties to milestone events turned them, over the centuries, into ...

When the City of Kirkland published a document last week about the Native American history of that part of King County, one local historian wasn’t very happy. For even those who pay scant attention, ...

Bernard Lynch’s “Slave Pen” at 5th and Myrtle Streets was the epicenter of the slave trade in St. Louis in 1852. (Credit: Public Domain.) Listen NEW YORK – A new report on the history of slavery in ...