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In the course of research about the Red Summer of 1919, a historian in Maine uncovers a disturbing event that took place on her own campus.

Almost a century ago, a network of signals guided airmail pilots across the country. A photographer documents the remnants of this transcontinental system.

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.

In a new book, the often under-appreciated contribution that black soldiers made during the civil war is brought to light with a trove of unseen photos.

Ann Banks on the history of her father's Civil War seal and her family's past connection to the Confederacy.

Implications for public record and legal proceedings after administration seized or destroyed papers, notes and other information.

Thousands of pages of declassified records are available for anyone to peruse.

The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business. But between the frantic calls of “there she blows!”, there was plenty of time for creation too.

2020 was full of efforts to archive photos and artifacts of the pandemic — an impulse born of a sense of witnessing history, and a desire to speak to the future.

Everyday people's creation of porn and erotic objects over the centuries.

The experience of feeling in the archive.

Enslaved.org will allow anyone to search for individual enslaved people around the globe in one central online location.

An unearthed guest register from the Catskill Mountain House sheds light on the artists who spent the night there.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

The treasures include recordings of string quartets, spirituals, sermons and politicians who might have been startled to hear the sound of their own voices.

Lessons about “dark age cruelty” and the limits of reformism from 90 years ago.

A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.

A case study in re-reading nineteenth-century delegation photography.

YouTubers are using AI to bring history to life. But historians argue the process is nonsense.

The authors of a new photography book explain how their project took shape.

The filmmaker and photographer’s work shows late-sixties Black activism to be a joyful, community-building project.

After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.

A lawsuit against Harvard University demands the return of an ancestor’s stolen image.

After two decades in a filing cabinet and three next to a parking lot in Baltimore, the author returns to New York.

Were the celebrities in this 1941 photograph making a patriotic gesture or paying their respects to Hitler?

Images from a century ago of people doing their best to keep others and themselves safe.

When Nicholson Baker searched for the truth about biological weapons, he found a fog of redaction.

What seemed to enrage a former inmate most was the mutual consent of the men he lived with.

An 1813 correspondence demonstrates that medical expertise in early America was not limited to men or physicians.

Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.