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National Archives and Records Administration's Our Archives wiki Archived December 11, 2019, at the Wayback Machine—information about NARA + its archived records "Things to Do in D.C.—National Archives and Library of Congress" —Roaminghistorian.com on visiting the National Archives
Pages in category "National Archives and Records Administration" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The first Archivist, R. D. W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established as an independent federal agency by Congress. The Archivists served as subordinate officials of the General Services Administration from 1949 until the National Archives and Records Administration became an independent agency again on April 1 ...
Funding for the National Archives and Records Administration is determined as part of the United States federal budget which allocates "non-reimbursable" funds to the National Archives. Reimbursable charges are collected from both government agencies and the public for specific archival services, mostly pertaining to the cost of reproduction ...
Some national archives collections are large, holding millions of items spanning several centuries, while others have been created more recently and have modest collections. Many national archives are effectively dispersed, especially in post-colonial countries, and often have smaller local collections due to cultural imperialism and the theft ...
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The National Archives Building in downtown Washington holds record collections such as all existing federal census records, ships' passenger lists, military unit records from the American Revolution to the Philippine–American War, records of the Confederate government, the Freedmen's Bureau records, and pension and land records.
The National Archives were formed in 2003, as a merger of the much older Public Record Office (created in 1838) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. [31] The records of England originate in the Chancery Archives and the tax accounting records of the Pipe rolls, the Memoranda Rolls of the Exchequer, and the feet of fines dating back to ...