It's not just home to the U.S.'s founding documents. The National Archives safeguards about 13.5 billion paper records, including the check used to buy Alaska and Adolf Hitler's will.
All federal employees are required to take an oath to support and defend the Constitution, but that oath takes on a different meaning for Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan.Shogan is responsible for safeguarding the country's founding documents and billions of other records at the National Archives. The small federal agency acts as a repository for the documents that have been at the heart of the nation for nearly 250 years, and the billions more created since.
, there are 20 football fields of files, stacked floor to ceiling, awaiting their fate.America's receipts and recordsAs director of Textual Records, Trevor Plante is in charge of more than two billion written documents in Washington. He likes to say the Archives keeps the nation's receipts — and he means it. The Louisiana Purchase, signed by Napoleon Bonaparte himself, is stored at the Archives' main building on Constitution Avenue.
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