On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a crowd attempting to stop a joint session of Congress from certifying the electoral votes of the 2020 presidential election. The January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol Web Archive preserves a representative sample of websites related to the attack and its aftermath. The collection includes a selection of federal and state government websites, as well as sites from the military, law enforcement, advocacy groups, think tanks, academia, corporations, and the media.

Additional Library of Congress web archive collections with content related to the January 6th attack include the collections General News on the Internet Web Archive, United States Congressional Web Archive, Executive Branch Federal Government Web Archive, and Public Policy Topics Web Archive.

Collection Period: March 2021 to present (this is an ongoing archive).

Frequency of Collection: The majority of sites in the collection were targeted for capture once, with fewer targeted for capture monthly, weekly, or quarterly.

Languages: Collection material in English.

Acquisition Information: Sites have been added incrementally since the project began and will continue to be added as they are identified.