Found

What a forgotten trove of videotapes reveals about the man who rewrote America’s political script.

Standard Oil was not about to be left earthbound.

Remembering "Hiroshima," the story that changed everything.

Newly released recordings of 'Citizens’ Council Radio Forum' show white supremacy’s evolution through the civil rights era.

A newly digitized map offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization.

The modern internet has come a long way.

Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Looking at a scientist’s FBI file.

Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.

Its title, 'The Negro', seemed innocuous enough. But Malcolm X intended it to invoke a much harsher meaning.

And other gleanings from the 1949 run of the Saturday Evening Post.

A database of fugitives from American Slavery.

What remains of Hugh Magnum's work documents how much was shared in common by people who racist laws treated as separate.

Looking back at the year of the moon landing, Woodstock, and more.

A missionary's account of the atrocities perpetrated against Cherokees shows that the Trail of Tears is no laughing matter.

What a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century.

They offer jaw-dropping examples of the sexism and racism that shaped professional cultures.

This document is the rarest of items in the Library of Congress's manuscript collections: a letter written by an enslaved person.

Carter G. Woodson’s unpublished work was discovered in 2005 by a Howard University history professor.

Re-telling the arrival of settlers on the prairie.

On a presidential paper trail.

A new exhibit features photos by Hugh Mangum, whose glass plate negatives were salvaged from a North Carolina barn.

Two hundred years ago, it was hard for Americans to miss the message that they had a serious drinking problem.

In the days of Jim Crow segregation, the "Green Book" that listed locations friendly to black travelers was essential to many.

Though Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., was gay, his legacy is not well known in the queer community.

A digital collection shows how subjective maps can be used to manipulate, rather than present the world as it really is.

No, castoreum is not a cheap substitute for strawberries; it’s luxe, artisanal secretions from a beaver's rear end.

What the immediate aftermath of the bombing looked like from the cockpit of a Japanese plane.

Looking for traces of the last person ever owned by a U.S. president.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.