Publications

Working closely with our partners at the National Archives, the Foundation’s Communications Department researches, writes, edits, and publishes high-quality exhibition catalogs and general-interest books introducing the public to the records of the National Archives and encouraging civic engagement with those records. Proceeds from books sold through the National Archives Store as well as through bookstores around the world support the exhibits, programs, and educational outreach of the National Archives.

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  The Road To Freedom: The Freedmen’s Bureau Records

  In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Federal government strove to care for and promote self- sufficiency among nearly 4 million former slaves through the Freedmen’s Bureau.

   

   

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  The Way We Worked

  Imagine working at a coal mine, steel mill, telephone switchboard. Work and workplaces have undergone enormous transformations between 1857 and 1987, documented in photographs from the National Archives.

   

  Available in softcover

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  Your Land, Our Land: Two Centuries of American Words and Images from the Regions of the National Archives

  Explore the far reaches of America through this selection of records from the National Archives’ regional facilities.

  Available in softcover

   

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  Archive This! The National Archives’ Archivist in Training Kit

  Travel along with Ben Franklin as he shows our two intrepid Archivists-in-training around the National Archives, and join them with your very own membership card!

  Available now

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  Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman

  Take a humorous and historical look at the campaign trail as drawn by Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman.