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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.

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.