Found

The winding story of how a trove of 8,000 of the poet’s family objects were saved.

A new exhibit in Atlanta shows that a perfectly captured photograph can sometimes wake America from its slumber and inspire social change.

He built a thriving business in New York selling old issues of newspapers and magazines, recognizing their value and the history they contained.

Prominent institutions, such as the Smithsonian, have historically erased or omitted US women from archival records.

Historians owe a debt of gratitude to these furry pilferers.

For centuries, the infamous Boss Tweed was blamed for destroying its dino-models—but what really happened is even weirder.

The “Barbie” movie glides over the history of dolls as powerful cultural objects.

How did record collecting and stereophile culture come to exclude women as consumers and experts?

The records of a New York surveillance committee from the time of the First Red Scare document a radical world—and its demise.

Before the eagerly-anticipated film hits our screens, we take a look back at the story of the world's most famous doll.

The meaning of coral jewelry in nineteenth-century America.

150 years of typewriter history in the city that invented the QWERTY keyboard.

The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

The Gadsden flag has reemerged as a provocative antigovernmental symbol, including at the Capitol riot and on license plates. Confederates once loved it, too.

Should museums only exhibit work of their own culture, or should they bring the world to visitors?

What a whaling captain’s logbook can teach us about sperm whales and our oceans.

With more queer history detectives, what could our future look like?

The alleged thieves included one of Connecticut's most prominent sons — former Sen. Prescott Bush, whose son and grandson would both one day be president.

Why historians like to think of themselves as detectives.

Loved and loathed, the toy stirs fresh controversy at age 64.

A collection of high school yearbooks from Cleveland captures the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the American middle class.

A nineteenth-century twist on love at first sight.

Tying frilly white doves and normative bride-and-groom couples to feminist art and DIY craft practices that offer opportunities for creativity and fantasy.

Finding the forgotten and racialized landscape of Civil War memory.

My hunt for one man across the lonely expanse of the queer past ended in a place I never expected.

Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.

After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought.

The frightening character who appears amid US union disputes can be traced back to a single factory, which wasn’t unionized.

The Black Woman’s Organizing Archive highlights work in the 19th and 20th centuries that benefitted Black women and American society as a whole.

Notions of women during the Civil War center on self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, or the home front. However, women charged into battle, too.