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An excerpt from a recently discovered memoir of World War I, "The Burning of the World."

Firecrackers are essentially un-American, even though we associate them with our most deeply patriotic celebration, the Fourth of July.

An early 20th-century scrapbook put together by Company 62 of the New York City Fire Department.

Animation pioneer Winsor McCay also innovated animated propaganda.

In 1918, Tom "Shotgun" Rogers earned himself a piece of baseball immortality—by killing a former teammate with a fastball.

Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.

A story of a mistaken identity reveals a lot about the history of black women in America, the challenges of understanding the past, and who we are today.

Before it ubiquitously meant the National Rifle Association, the NRA had a very different meaning.

Images of decaying daguerreotypes whose photographic fixing was subject to decay like the people they captured.

Victorian "Moustache Cups" ensure that one can drink while keeping their mustache dry.

The 42 minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.

On the introduction of the Franklin stove into the American home and the ensuing stove revolution.

Geisel did not begin his career writing children stories, but selling products.

You will never think about the 36th president the same way again.

For decades, historians believed that the Department's files had been lost forever. Now copies of those files are available in this searchable digital archive.

An Oval Office photograph captured the bizarre encounter between the king of rock and roll and the president.

Images were important in defining the Republic between the Revolution and the Civil War and they distinctively both did and did not show Americans in need.

In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown.

Stumbling on a forgotten Reconstruction tragedy, in a forgotten corner of Louisiana.

Who owns the past? That is the subject of debate after the discovery of a human skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington.

Memos on "aliases," sexuality, and The Blood Counters.

On the enormous, ornate, and extremely impractical bathtub in his family’s old-fashioned brownstone home.

Hood and Sherman exchange epistolary fire in 1864.

A spotlight on a primary source.

A spotlight on a primary source.

A spotlight on a primary source.

A spotlight on a primary source.

A spotlight on a primary source.