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Experts dug up 19th century newspaper clips revealing the real birthplace.

How a rare copy of the U.S.-Navajo Treaty, once thought lost, was found in a New England attic.

Why an historian is compiling a digital database of the military records of 200,000+ black Union soldiers.

What was J. Robert Oppenheimer doing with a book about science in early America?

A tour through the travel journals that visually document early road trips of the American West.

A digital exhibit from the collections of the Strong National Museum of Play.

Earl Tupper invented the container's seal, but it was a savvy, convention-defying entrepreneur who got the product line into the homes of housewives.

In search of the photographer who captured the Beatles' final concert on film.

An archaeologist reconstructs the daily lives of 19th-century sex workers in Boston.

Newly discovered league memo from 1966 anticipates controversies over the Colin Kaepernick protest.

An early use of the spoonerism "bass-ackwards" turns up in an 1840s letter by a young Abraham Lincoln.

The arsenic-laden pages of "Shadows from the Walls of Death" should not be touched without gloves.

Soldiers and their families, sometimes barely literate, wrote to assuage fear and convey love.

A set of speech drafts suggests that Truman may not have fully understood the implications of dropping an atomic bomb on the city.

A peek inside premodern cookbooks.

Thousands of priceless images, books, documents, and more are now at your fingertips.

The secrets and service of a World War II family, 76 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Archivists are working to document our chaotic, opaque, algorithmically complex world—and in many cases, they simply can’t.

White soldiers, escaped slaves, and American Indians all dealt with food scarcity but often reacted to it differently.

Harvard digitizes two centuries of colonial history.

An obscure archive reveals the science—and art—behind combat culture.

Photographer Peter Campbell captured many scenes from the 1939 New York World's Fair in full color, both during the day and at night.

Looking for traces of sexual fantasy in soldiers' letters home.

Piecing back together the forgotten history of Herman Melville's second son.

The U.S. divided into Pacific, Atlantic, Interior and Confederate States.

Private Charles F. Johnson of the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry ponders an unusual celestial phenomenon.

What's still under wraps, and what it might tell us about Lee Harvey Oswald.

Kristine K. Ronan describes her discovery of two Native American statues at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.

A CIA memo shows that US officials considered his execution a crucial victory—but they were mistaken in believing Che’s ideas could be buried along with his body.

Newly discovered footage of the time 20,000 American Nazis descended upon midtown Manhattan.