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Is there a special value in archives that are not digitized?

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is taking steps to commemorate enslaved people who worked for his predecessor nearly 200 years ago.

We used to fill our time capsules with fancy stuff. Now we put in junk.

John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.

In the 1930s, park planning was pretty.

Enslaved wet nurses were a valued purchase in the antebellum South.

A collection of images of early 20th-century public bathrooms.

The Technicolor Online Research Archive has newly digitized documents from 1914 to 1955, chronicling the development of Technicolor film.

She used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.

In 1097, a Pueblo artist may have etched a rare celestial event into the rock for all of posterity

Threatening the newly-freed Southern slaves.

A Barthesian bristle and the curious power of Walt Whitman’s posthumous eyelids.

Called Art War Relief, members from a group of art societies formed a coalition under the auspices of the American Red Cross.

One famous image of the president features a body that isn't his.

On the occasion of his 250th birthday, the making of our sixth president in his own words.

A Lippincott Library collection shows how, during World War II, companies highlighted their war contributions via annual reports.

Archaeologists have uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion.

Mary K. Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document.

Jeffrey Conner has collected over 1,000 headbadges from old bicycles.

The memorial to the men sat in a field until 2010 when officials took a fork lift to it.

The researchers compiling the U.S. Army’s accounts of Iraq and Afghanistan have an unprecedented volume of material to sort.

It is worth taking a moment to recover the genealogy for the "crosshairs," the universal modern index of imminent violent killing.

Why is there more than one version of the famous 1851 speech?

The visualizations condense an enormous amount of data into a set of aesthetically daring and easily digestible visualisations.

Dozens of vessels that brought gold-crazed prospectors to the city in the 19th century still lie beneath the streets.

The magazine's founders swore it was anti-communist, but that wasn't enough to convince skittish advertisers to stick with it.

A huge collection of “persuasive maps” — newly available online — reveals how our trust in cartography can be used to sway us.

A historian collecting runaway slave ads describes them as “the tweets of the master class.”

A window into the day-to-day workings of the movement for the enfranchisement of women.