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Tourists pose for pictures at the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana.
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How a Black Female Fashion Designer Laid the Groundwork for Ghana’s ‘Year of Return’

When Ghana gained independence, Freddye Henderson facilitated African American tourism to the new nation.
by Tiffany M. Gill via Made By History on January 10, 2020
Left: Pvt. Edmund Ruffin, Confederate soldier with long flowing white hair. Right: George Armstrong Custer, United States Army officer and cavalry commander with long wavy brown hair.

Civil War Soldiers Used Hair Dye to Make Themselves Look Better in Pictures, Archaeologists Discover

Researchers have found hair dye bottles and evidence of a photographic studio at Camp Nelson—a former Union camp.
by Aristos Georgiou via Newsweek on December 9, 2019
Red calamanco wedding buckle shoes, circa 1765.

The Woolen Shoes That Made Revolutionary-Era Women Feel Patriotic

Calamanco footwear was sturdy, egalitarian, and made in the U.S.A.
by Kimberly S. Alexander via What It Means to Be American on November 7, 2019
Woman in 18th century dress and hairstyle.

Las Marthas

At a colonial debutante ball in Texas, girls wear 100 pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington. What does it mean to find yourself in the in-between?
by Jordan Kisner via The Believer on October 1, 2019

What Maketh a Man

How queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity.
by Tyler Malone via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 10, 2019
Emma Grimes Robinson

These Photo Albums Offer a Rare Glimpse of 19th-Century Boston’s Black Community

Thanks to the new acquisition, scholars at the Athenaeum library are connecting the dots of the city’s history of abolitionists.
by Dana Lorch via Smithsonian on May 29, 2019
Bucket of indigo dye.

Colonialism Created Navy Blue

The indigo dye that created the Royal Navy's signature uniform color was only possible because of imperialism and slavery.
by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on May 25, 2019

Uniforming the Nation

Standard clothing sizes don’t exist.
by Jordana Rosenfeld via Popula on April 3, 2019
Josepine Baker vaudeville cartoon

Josephine Baker: Dancer. Icon. Spy.

The Vaudeville star was at the height of her fame in Europe when WWII struck, and used her status for the allies.
by Bianca Xunise via The Nib on February 23, 2019
Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface with flag during Apollo 11.

50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1969

Looking back at the year of the moon landing, Woodstock, and more.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on February 13, 2019

From Oil to Oprah: An Oral History of the StairMaster

The untold origin story of an iconic workout machine, told one step at a time.
by Andy Wright via Medium on February 7, 2019
Drawing of a drag ball in the Civil War.

Drag Balls of the Civil War

Queerness has always existed — even on the Civil War battlefield.
by Levi Hastings, Dorian Alexander via The Nib on October 5, 2018

An Oral History of Voguing from a Pioneer of the Iconic Dance

"This is not just a fad. This, for us, was a dance of survival, but it was also a social dance."
by Ja'han Jones via HuffPost on June 4, 2018
Tillie Anderson on her bicycle.

This Seamstress Conquered Bike Racing in the 1890s

Cyclist Tillie Anderson shattered records, dominated her competition, and earned the world champion title.
by Kate Siber via Outside on May 31, 2018
Photo of pop singer Erykah Badu, a black woman wearing a headwrap, singing into microphone.

The Radical History of the Headwrap

Born into slavery, then reclaimed by black women, the headwrap is now a celebrated expression of style and identity.
by Khanya Mtshali via Timeline on May 10, 2018
Victorian couple courting with a church steeple in the background

Victorian Era

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Tona Hangen via Digital Public Library of America on February 28, 2018

Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras

A look at the ornate float and costume designs from Carnival’s “Golden Age."
by Allison C. Meier via The Public Domain Review on February 7, 2018
Alice Lee Hum with her mother Jean, at a laundry on 21st Ave in Astoria, Queens, c. 1951.

How Childhoods Spent in Chinese Laundries Tell the Story of America

The laundry: a place to play, grow up, and live out memories both bitter and sweet.
by Eveline Chao via Atlas Obscura on January 3, 2018

50 Years Ago, Protesters Took on Miss America and Electrified the Feminist Movement

Miss America pageant has a long history of controversy—including the 1968 protests.
by Roxane Gay via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018

Masher Menace: When American Women First Confronted Their Sexual Harassers

The #MeToo movement is not the first time women have publicly stood up to sexual harassment.
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on December 14, 2017

The Strange Story of the Forever 1980s

Why the makers of today's popular culture are still so obsessed with the Reagan era.
by Jarrett Ruminski via That Devil History on October 29, 2017

Touching Sentiment: The Tactility of Nineteenth-Century Valentines

Sentimental or “fancy” valentines, as they were called, were harbingers of hope, fondness, and desire.
by Christina Michelon via Commonplace on December 1, 2016

Twenty-First Century Victorians

The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today.
by Jason Tebbe via Jacobin on October 31, 2016

Data-Mined Photos Document 100 Years of (Forced) Smiling

A high-school yearbook database dating to the 1900s shows how hairstyles, clothing and smiles have changed.
by Steve Dent via Engadget on November 27, 2015
Swimmers of all ages enjoy the Tidal Basin Bathing Beach in 1922. (Photo source: Library of Congress)

Cooling Off in the Tidal Basin

In the 1920s, Washingtonians dealt with the summer heat by going to the nearest beach...at the Tidal Basin.
by Jenna Goff via Boundary Stones on July 21, 2015

Into the Trenches in Red and Blue

Looking at color photographs of WWI feels like seeing a familiar scene through a different pair of eyeglasses.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on September 5, 2014
Sports Illustrated cover featuring a model in a swimsuit.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

An intellectual history.
by Bryan Curtis via Slate on February 9, 2010
A woman in a bathing suit cooling off from an open fire hydrant.

Arthur Miller on Sweltering Summers Before Air-Conditioning

The city in summer floated in a daze that moved otherwise sensible people to repeat endlessly the brainless greeting “Hot enough for ya?”
by Arthur A. Miller via The New Yorker on June 15, 1998
Map of Europe with title "Franklina C. Gray: The Grand Tour"

Franklina C. Gray: The Grand Tour

In the late 19th Century, tourism to Europe boomed because wealthy Americans could travel more quickly and safely than ever before on railroads and steamships.
via Camron Stanford House

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