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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.

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.