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By the Numbers: Digitization and Citizen Engagement
The National Archives’ Strategic Plan includes the ambitious initiative to digitize our analog records and make them available for online public access. With over 12 billion pages of records in our...
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Launching the Beta Program for our Remembering WWI App
Today we’re launching the public beta program for the Remembering WWI iPad app, which puts newly digitized primary source materials into the hands of teachers and museum professionals nationwide. The...
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The Forgotten Irish: Irish Emigrant Experiences in America
On the eve of the American Civil War, 1.6 million Irish-born people were living in the United States, most in the major industrialized cities of the North. The stories of 35 Irish families whose lives...
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Make Access Happen
The National Archives and Records Administration has been able to accomplish some incredible digitization and outreach work over the years due in part to contributions and support by anonymous donors...
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U.S. Coast Guard Logbook Scan-a-Thon
The featured scanning project from the National Archives Innovation Hub focuses on logbooks of the U.S. Coast Guard vessels that served in the Vietnam War. These vessels participated in Operation...
View ArticleNARA and Obama Foundation Sign a Digitization Memorandum of Understanding
This week, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Barack Obama Foundation agreed on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding the plan to digitize all of the unclassified...
View ArticleMaking Access Happen: NARA’s Leadership in the Digital Decade
The history of the National Archives records our longstanding commitment to the mission of preserving and providing access to the permanent records of the federal government. However, in no decade in...
View ArticleRecent events at the Innovation Hub
Since the Innovation Hub opened in July 2015, many visitors and volunteers have passed through its doors to scan documents from our holdings, attend presentations and conferences, and participate in...
View ArticleA New Path for Exploration: Record Group Explorer
NARA staff have been developing a new digital tool that you can use to explore our records. The tool draws from over 100 million digital copies in our Catalog. And we are adding more digital copies...
View ArticleDemocratizing Access to our Records
The National Archives has a big, hairy audacious strategic goal to provide public access to 500 million digital copies of our records through our online Catalog by FY24. When we first announced this...
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