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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.

Rose Cleveland declared her passion for the woman she had a relationship with spanning three decades in letter after letter.

Some kind, some weird, some unbelievably harsh.

The correspondence of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall leading up to D-Day.

News of the invasion spread quickly that morning. Phil Stern captured a city still processing the news—but his photos were lost for decades.

A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.

Thanks to the new acquisition, scholars at the Athenaeum library are connecting the dots of the city’s history of abolitionists.

Retracing the history of Chinatown in Los Angeles using old Chinese restaurant menus as a guide.

Without historical records, we lose key insights into how law enforcement works — and how it fails.