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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.

The origins of Linus's pumpkin deity, who "rises out of the pumpkin patch and flies through the air and brings toys to all the children in the world."

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War.

Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

Privately published memoir of an American portraitist who grew up in a log cabin and went on to paint presidents and Daniel Boone.

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.

Our past on the internet is disappearing before we can make it history.

But “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” which was taken during the Great Depression, has come to represent the country's resilience, especially on Labor Day.

In the late 1970s, mysterious circular patterns started showing up in farm fields.

Letters come in each year with pilfered stones from the national park, hoping to break the senders' curse.

The journey of Omar Ibn Said.

There's a lot more than money at stake in the impending auction.

A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights figures including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller.

How could Armstrong, born indisputably black at the height of Jim Crow and raised poor, be so happy?

Lost letters between Jane Addams and her best friend leave questions for historians,

In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.