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Take a deep dive into this drawing by famed illustrator Thomas Nast.

On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history.

Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln.

Edgar Allan Poe knew that readers would add their visual image of the author to his work to create a personality that informed their reading.

A researcher in Boston discovers that the beloved Christmas favorite was first performed in a Boston minstrel hall.

Sentimental or “fancy” valentines, as they were called, were harbingers of hope, fondness, and desire.

A new gallery provides a rare look inside the 75-year history of the agency’s mapping unit.

A comprehensive digital archive, map, and timeline of riots and lynchings across the U.S. in 1919.

When metalworker George Stephen, Sr. put two halves of a buoy together, he didn't know he was making a charcoal grill that would stand the test of time.

The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways.

Linoleum has a rich history in art and industry that you should remember next time you walk across a particularly beautiful patterned floor.

Last Seen is recovering stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade. The following explains how the project engages with these family histories.

An exercise in understatement that would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

Archivists are figuring out which pieces of artists' digital lives to preserve alongside letters, sketchbooks, and scribbled-on napkins.

A lawyer details the attack by hundreds of whites on the black neighborhood where hundreds died 95 years ago.

In 1970, a hand-bound portfolio of nearly 300 drawings is found in a dumpster. It would take 41 years to identify the artist who drew them.

A "yearbook" documents the U.S. military occupation of Nagasaki in the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

A first of its kind Library of Congress project aims to identify, catalogue, and preserve America’s broadcast history. 

A perusal of Benjamin Franklin’s "Drinker’s Dictionary," and a chat about how the drink of choice in revolutionary America switched from cider to rum.

Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?

Even the most mundane of objects associated with the Founding Father have a story.

The room at One Police Plaza, jammed to the ceiling with filing cabinets and boxes, and reeking of vinegar, held about 180,000 images ranging from 1914 to 1972.

Reliving the Sinking of the Lusitania Through the Eyes of a Survivor-My Great-Grandmother

A documentary about an extraordinary hidden treasure and the reclusive soul that protected it for years.

"Fool the Axis—use Prophylaxis!"In many ways, such a coordinated public effort to alter sexual behavior was unprecedented.

As Buffalo Bill's performers, they were walking stereotypes. But a New York photographer showed the humans beneath the headdresses.

The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its past.

It's impossible to understand the country without knowing who's been kept out, who's been let in, and how they've been treated once they arrive.

Looking at color photographs of WWI feels like seeing a familiar scene through a different pair of eyeglasses.

We hold this truth to be self-evident: John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence was too big.