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Concerns about privacy and pressures regarding the physical appearance of women and their homes contributed to the failure of AT&T’s 1960s Picturephone.

Long before Google Maps, an intrepid inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes captured a groundbreaking view of Gotham in its Jazz Age glory.

If ever a book ought not to be judged by its cover, Edgar Allan Poe’s debut collection, "Tamerlane and Other Poems," is that book.

Herders carved names, slogans, nude silhouettes and more into the trees around them. Now, researchers rush to find the arborglyphs before they disappear.

Who created it? What was it meant for? And how did it come to be what it is today?

A shocking image of the 1906 atrocity survived but failed to become a humanitarian touchstone.

Created for US insurance firms during devastating fires across the 19th and 20th centuries, the Sanborn maps blaze with detail the aspects of American cities.

First exhibited in 1878, Charles F. Ritchel's dirigible was about as wacky, dangerous and impractical as any airship ever launched.

Recovering a life in fragments, Arthur Bowler in slavery and freedom.

Tracing the origins of Japanese emoji symbolism and drawing technology.

“An Ideal for Living” explores the fascinating backstory of a mini music format.

During the first decade of the New Deal, modernist architects designed schools for disabled children that proposed radical visions of civic care.

The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.

On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things.”

It’s time to start learning about Native history from museums and cultural centers that are run by Native nations.

Silence and volume in collections and institutions.

Funny, convivial, chatty—a new edition of Emily Dickinson's letters upends the myth of her reclusive genius. 

They were one of the most ubiquitous crafts to come out of Japanese incarceration camps. But few knew their back story — until now.

Rare photos from the early 1900s show the 120-year-old system’s pick-and-shovel beginnings.

An eye-witness depiction of the Continental Army passing through Philadelphia hung in a New York apartment for decades.

Better browsers made things worse.

In this new hobby, I found so many stories.

Marbled paper was a way to make banknotes and checks unique—a critical characteristic for a nascent American Republic.

One of the best-known icons of modern society is a classic example of a symbol—it’s easy to spot, but hard to explain. Who came up with it?

Denied burial alongside Union soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, the 30 or so men were instead buried in the all-Black Lincoln Cemetery.

This nineteenth-century industrial product became a military staple and a critical part of local food culture around the world.

A UC Berkeley student’s award-winning research shines a light on LGBTQ+ life in Japanese American concentration camps during World War II.

Charles Lewis Tiffany bought surplus cable from the venture, turning it into souvenirs that forever linked his name to the telecommunications milestone.

Zine-making is a tradition shared by the young and alienated, people enamored with the fringes of culture. Can a museum exhibit capture its essence?

Harriet M. Buss' missives home detail the future congressman's candid views on race and the complicity of Confederate women.