This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first spaceflight to put humans on the moon. We went into the NASA archives of the Apollo 11 mission to remember the uncertainty and wonder of that week in 1969.
A misogyny-fueled killing spree spurred reams of news coverage. Now an online archive aims to allow a community to tell its own story of grief.
An archive works to conserve the stories of the 1947 Partition of India.
A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from a feature on California's troubling oil industry to a look at how Hurricane Florence could have destroyed important historical records.
Historical archives housed in universities, courthouses, and local libraries are at heightened risk from flooding and mold.
Almost all American archives are at risk from disasters or changing temperatures. Community history will probably be the first to go.
Meet the employees piecing together the shredded remnants of surveillance and secrecy in East Germany.
The U.S. Library of Congress is blazing a trail in determining how to store an ever-expanding trove of information that never had physical form.
Never has the world historical and cultural record been more accessible — or more fragile.
