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The private papers of the writer David Foster Wallace, above, who committed suicide at 46 in 2008, have been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJERUSALEM -- The instructions from the Israeli government were clear in the hours after Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics in 1972, took nine [...]

As technology marches forward, so do the paper handlers in the nation's capital. Last week, a Federal District Court judge sided with the National Archives and Records Administration in an […]

William E. Woolfenden, who made it his mission to gather every artifact, photograph, scrap of paper and taped recollection he could about American artists, collectors, curators and dealers, died of […]

On Tuesday night, a procession of writers, editors and publishing-industry veterans stepped past the lions outside the New York Public Library's main branch on Fifth Avenue as they made their [...]

The joint archive of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, includes manuscripts, photographs, letters, dinner party guest lists and other personal items. It was April 1957, and Joan Didion [...]

ROME -- When the Vatican opened its sealed archives from the World War II-era pontificate of Pius XII in March, the Brown University historian David I. Kertzer was among the [...]

LONDON -- Two male British scientists gained worldwide fame as the developers of in vitro fertilization, but both viewed a woman, Jean Purdy, as an equal partner in the breakthrough, [...]

The saxophonist Sonny Rollins, perhaps jazz's most respected living improviser, is also one of its most relentless seekers. But that's well known; what's not as widely recognized is the diversity [...]

Time Inc. has donated its vast archives to the New-York Historical Society, which will open a dedicated gallery to showcase highlights from what it called ''a unique chronicle of the [...]

As the war in Northern Ireland was reaching its end in the late 1990s, two interviewers set out to collect memories of the conflict from men and women who had [...]

When the Fire Department ordered trash removed from the balcony of a little-used auditorium at the Educational Alliance, one of New York's oldest Jewish settlement houses, part of the agency's […]

JACQUELINE F. SKINNER seemed an unlikely person to push for the construction of an $18-million government building. Until she was 64, she had never been involved in politics, had not […]

When the race track is quiet, visitors to Saratoga Springs, N.Y., sometimes wander over to the 400-acre wooded estate nearby known as Yaddo, the renowned artists' retreat. But they can […]

Kurt Robert Eissler, the New York psychoanalyst who founded, directed and defended the Sigmund Freud Archives and then handpicked a successor who ended up plunging the archive into a sea […]

When Richard J. Wattenmaker, the director of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, started making phone calls from his Washington office on Sept. 23, he could hardly have imagined […]

To the Editor: Mark Crispin Miller (letter, Oct. 24), writing about the debate over American Communism and McCarthyism, notes that 'scholars have full access only to the Russian archives.' While […]

The 49-year-old collector whose auction of John F. Kennedy memorabilia has invoked the wrath of Kennedy's children agreed yesterday to turn over 21 Kennedy items of historical importance to the […]

The squabbling over next week's auction of John F. Kennedy memorabilia took another bizarre twist yesterday as the National Archives and Records Administration dispatched experts to New York to examine […]

Last spring, at the National Archives and Record Administration on the Washington Mall, the people's memory suffered some minor lapses. A 15-year-old electromagnetic tape containing White House electronic messages began […]

Last spring, at the National Archives and Record Administration on the Washington Mall, the people's memory suffered some minor lapses. A 15-year-old electromagnetic tape containing White House electronic messages began […]