Former leaders of the National Archives — which preserves and protects the nation’s most important documents — are urging a federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration’s effort to ignore ...

The National Archives and Records Administration is running out of space for paper records, as seen in Stack 390 on Sept. 6 in College Park, Md. (Maansi Srivastava for The Washington Post) Thirty ...

New guidance from the National Archives and Records Administration outlines when agencies should preserve AI-related materials as federal records and notes there is no “one size fits all” approach to ...

The Federal Records Act of 1950, as amended, establishes the framework for records management programs in Federal Agencies. As the primary agency for records management oversight, the National ...

As President Donald Trump moves to overhaul the federal government with astonishing speed, he has wreaked havoc on one agency long known for its nonpartisanship and revered for its mission: the ...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) launched its Electronic Records Archives (ERA) program in 1998 to create a system to preserve and provide access to federal electronic records.

History lives in old pieces of paper: newspaper articles, diaries, letters, trial transcripts, government memorandums. These are the building blocks of the stories about our past. And these days, as ...

The National Archives has been in the news lately, not so much for what is in its collection, but for what was missing. After former President Donald Trump and then-Vice President Biden held on to ...

The historians who are suing over the Trump administration’s eschewal of a Watergate-era records retention law for presidential documents said Tuesday that the National Archives won’t agree not to ...

President Donald Trump has fired the head of the National Archives, after complaining for nearly two years about the agency’s role in the Justice Department’s investigation and eventual prosecution of ...