U.S. Government

The mission of NARA is to serve American democracy by safeguarding and preserving the records of our Government, ensuring that the people can discover, use, and learn from this documentary heritage.

This Office is responsible, under law, to create and publish the official historical documentary record of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign Relations of the United States series, among other duties. This site organizes historical information for countries and their relationship to the United States and has a topical index to the Foreign Relations of the United States and more.

Documents in law, history, and diplomacy

Print version in STROZIER Documents -- C3.134/2: H62 1789-1970

This site features "the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever."

A partnership of the United States Government Printing Office, The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library.

"Search U.S. government technical reports issued primarily prior to 1975 and digitized by the TRAIL Working Groups."

Highlighted our troops during WWII

A curated selection of foundational documents of the United States and other significant primary sources, from the National Archives.

A collection of digitized primary sources documenting significant events in United States history.

The Compilation of Presidential Documents collection consists of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents which are the official publications of materials released by the White House Press Secretary. The Compilation of Presidential Documents is published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Magazines and bulletins from the U.S. Navy

A magazine by the Women's Bureau

A roster of years an attorney or agent was registered to practice before the U.S. Patent Office.

Used in the U.S. to help determine which plants native to their locality were marketable for medicinal purposes

Chronicled voyages

USGS water report documents

Access to formerly declassified FBI files requested through the Freedom of Information Act

Includes informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches, and propaganda materials distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) during the Second World War.

"A project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University with funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities."

World War II posters from the Northwestern University Library of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the beginning of the war through 1945.

This independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. It provides the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945.