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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.

Education for women and emerging nationhood, illustrated with care and charm.

How Dorothy Porter assembled and organized a premier Africana research collection.

Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs.

The euphonia, the phonograph, and the gendering of nineteenth century mechanical speech.

Before the first disposable sanitary napkin hit the mass market, periods were thought of in a much different way.

Displaying the material history of the CIA.

Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.

A nonprofit claims its request for genealogical records from state archives was brushed aside in favor of Ancestry’s request.

Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive.

In the height of the Cold War, the NSA created a series of posters to keep its secrets from leaking. They're both wonderful and creepy.

These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.

What one scholar learned from writing an American history consisting of 100 maps.

The author of "Homeplace" shares a note from Patsy Cline.

Just-discovered letters herald the significance of an unsung Revolutionary woman, Julia Rush.

Convinced of rampant bias on the evening news, Paul Simpson founded the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.

They claim Earhart made several attempts to reach civilization in her final days — and her messages got through.

How an engraving of a slave ship helped the abolition movement.

Leila collects art that’s made of human hair and displays it to the public at a museum bearing her name in Independence, Missouri.

July 4th celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but we don’t even have the original!

Did the census recognize gay couples in 1940?

Through Emma Williard's imagination, a collection of rare maps that illustrates past reality.

The black pioneers who tried to start over out west.

A nameless Cold Warrior grew frustrated in his Defense Department job, and poured out his feelings in an unusual way.

The "Gangland Map" features drunken fish and goofy jokes alongside descriptions of brutal murders.