Collection of documents and records purposefully stored for a defined period of...

The historical records of an...

Archives have existed since ancient times. According to James O'Toole (1990), the term "archives" was originally used to "designate all collections of written records" (p. 28). In the modern world, however, the word...

An archive refers to a collection of historical records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept.[1] Archives are made up of records (AKA primary source documents) which have been accumulated over the course of an individual or...

The Constitutional Court has struck down the law that opened Romania's secret police archives, a blow to efforts to further expose the country's communist past.Many Romanians contend the law had been used for retribution and blackmail. In the eight years since it took effect, many...

Holocaust survivors move closer this week to being able to find a paper trail of their own persecution when the keepers of a Nazi archive deliver copies of Gestapo papers and concentration camp records to museums in Washington and Jerusalem.For a survivor, it could be...

The National Archives wants a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking quick access to records about a health care task force Hillary Rodham Clinton headed as first lady, or delay the release for about a year.Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest group, has complained...

NASA's images from the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle missions will be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a partnership between the space agency and the nonprofit Internet Archive.The archive will spend millions of dollars to...