Historical documents

The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 describes a man's place in society and is divided into political, economic, and social aspects.

A transcriber on the Isle of Man can decipher almost anything.

Various archives, files, journals, diaries and other documents of the past are now of interest only to collectors and historians. We will help You with a preliminary assessment of your documents, as…

Here are 28 newspaper headlines that document history’s most important moments—headlines so momentous that anyone reading them knew that the...

The Miami News, Friday, 11/22/63

Home for the holidays? How we celebrate the winter holidays may be a bit different this year, yet it is still a good time to be thinking about getting a better handle on those family and personal archives, especially if multiple generations of relatives are gathered in one place, whether in-person or via a screen. Here are some tips to get started, inspired by my experience assessing and preserving my own family’s historical records.

Ancestry.com uses a Mekel MACH5 microfilm scanner in their digitization process to produce high-quality images of census data and other historical documents.

The large-scale fighting stopped, but, technically, the war has never ended. The...

Iconic front page detailing coverage of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima dated August 8, 1945.