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Letters, diaries, and remembrances shared on JSTOR by University of the Pacific reveal the hardships of day-to-day life during the California Gold Rush.

Identifying Sophie Mousseau from a Civil War-Era photo helps us understand our complex past.

O-o-be' stood out in an era when smiles on camera weren't common.

An oral history project to document the stories of federal workforce cuts is open to all feds and contractors — even DOGE and Musk.

The radical legacy of Abram Colby, one of Georgia’s first Black legislators, was almost erased by racist revisionists.

A presidential lawyer and historian combed through the latest document dump so you don’t have to. Here’s what he found.

We risk losing not just the images but also our ability to bear witness to history itself.

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

The civil rights leader’s lone poem, written from prison, reveals his love of language — and his quest for truth.

How a clerk on Ellis Island at the dawn of the 20th century documented discrimination through photography, and what that tells us about today’s malaise.

William H. Townsend drew the rebels as they stood trial, leaving behind an invaluable record.

How scholars achieved some of the most consequential intelligence victories of the twentieth century.

Countries have also used their postal systems to fight back against aggression.

Tamara Thomsen discovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota in 2021, spurring efforts to catalog historic canoes statewide.

The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools.

What it conveys is quite specific: grandeur, beauty, dynamism, and power.

Belle da Costa Greene, a brilliant archivist, buried her own history.

A new release of an 1891 song by Louis Vasnier deepens what we know about the genre’s origins.

Getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives.

John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?

The popular reception of thongs, bras, boy shorts and other intimate items.

How researchers analyzed limestone to determine the age and origins of the grave maker, which marked the final resting place of a prominent Jamestown colonist.

The evolution of baseball’s perfect lineup.

As the nation’s highest court debated Native sovereignty, I was in the archives, uncovering family stories entwined with those debates.

Newly-released FBI files show a lot of strange threats against the former secretary of state’s safety—and say a lot about 1970s America.

Empty chairs, empty tables, and the dismantling of the American Dream.

What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?

This large database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the military-justice system rarely punishes perpetrators.

Documents show Henry Kissinger misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Salvador Allende.

A newly digitized set of records reveals the plight and bravery of enslaved people in the North.