The U.S. National Archives Wants to Put Its Whole Collection on Wikimedia Commons

Posted by admin on Jul 4, 2014

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has some amazing documents. But the collections don’t only focus on the founding of the country—they’re an incredibly varied lot.

They include documents ranging from Robert E. Lee’s resignation letter from the U.S. Army to thousands of books and documents describing the lives of Jewish people in Iraq that were discovered by the U.S. Army in 2003. And all of these documents and photographs and records should soon be available online—for free—as part of the Wikimedia Commons project.

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