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Reports in the underground press demonstrate how Juneteenth has been celebrated as both a social and political gathering in the twentieth century.

Original footage of ironworkers constructing the Chrysler Building (1929-30).

Lessons from another time of great disillusionment.

For one West Virginia community, the acquisition is a missing puzzle piece to questions about slavery in the state.

These letters and journals offer insights on how to record one's thoughts amid a pandemic.

What changes each decade, what stays the same, and what do the questions say about American culture and society?

The Timms provide the history behind their collection of 20th century mail-order novelty items.

The Confederate Army required owners to loan their slaves to the military. The National Archives has now digitized those records.

I live in a place where the wind blows history into my path.

How the dental history of the nation’s first president is interwoven with slavery and privilege.

A missing pilot and her poems.

The last British monarch to reign over the American colonies had a collection of more than 55,000 maps, each with their own story to tell.

What does the past sound like – and can listening to it help us understand history better?

Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, digitized 75 years after they were made, offer lessons for Americans today.

Black midwives were central to community health networks in the South.

Through her relationships with other women, one can trace the evidence of McCullers’s becoming, as a woman, as a lesbian, and as a writer.

Samuel Freedman rereads 1975's "Blue-Collar Aristocrats."

The question remains whether spaces like MOCA will remain vibrant in a future where notions of community grow more abstract.

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.

The pioneering work of Emma Willard, a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today.

A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.

Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren’t so easily changed.

Researchers have found hair dye bottles and evidence of a photographic studio at Camp Nelson—a former Union camp.

Researching the history of time capsules.

Do archivists have political motivations too?

Oceanographer Dawn Wright on how "Treasure Island" led her to map the bottom of the sea.

Calamanco footwear was sturdy, egalitarian, and made in the U.S.A.

We investigated a dataset of more than 30,000 high school yearbook photos from 1930–2013 to find out when big hair was at its height.

Creating the myth of the gold rush with the help of daguerreotypists.

Collecting seashells is as old as humanity. What we do with them can reveal who we are, where we’re from, and what we believe.