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The Black Woman’s Organizing Archive highlights work in the 19th and 20th centuries that benefitted Black women and American society as a whole.

Notions of women during the Civil War center on self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, or the home front. However, women charged into battle, too.

The complicated and visceral issue of how we preserve our history offers an opportunity for meaningful discourse.

The Atlantic Monthly reported on newly found love letters between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, his supposed sweetheart. Even biographers fell for the hoax.

The humble drinking fountain can tell us much about a society’s attitudes towards health, hygiene, equity, virtue, public goods and civic responsibilities.

Archival records of Black southerners' military desertion tribunals can be read as a distinct form of political action.

A Spanish-language pamphlet by Cotton Mather explodes the Black-versus-white binary that dominates most discussions of race in our time.

Historians must read every imperfect archive with a particular perspicacity, to uncover the histories so many archives were meant to suppress or erase.

Understanding puzzles as agents of disorder runs counter to a common interpretation that associates puzzles with the quest for order.

On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled off the assembly line. Some 55 years later, the last one has left its factory.

Long before monuments to enslavers were removed, lawmakers decided to relocate a scandalous, half-naked depiction of George Washington in a toga.

Four tapes mysteriously donated reveal uncertainty within the death chamber—and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

Discovery of Phillis Wheatley's earliest known elegy in a commonplace book gives us important insights into her early life and how her work circulated.

They were made by Alexander Graham Bell and his fellow researchers between 1881 and 1892

Hundreds of classic cartoons vanished without warning. How can you raise your kids on favorites you can’t access anymore?

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations.

Jews from the Ottoman Empire pioneered the Christmas lights market a century ago — but nativism, antisemitism and islamophobia obscured this history.

A talk with family, turpentine workers, historians, chefs, foresters, and beer brewers to get to the root of the rosin potato's origins.

A 1918 letter sent a historian diving into the archives to learn more about its author.

Presidents used to own their personal papers — but there were real security reasons for changing that.

Who designed the first sticker? And does anyone care about it anymore?

The Coney Island “Congress,” supposedly captured here in audio, was a conglomeration of counterfeits.

Class-obsessed consumers found the cold, hard and highly breakable figurines irresistible

Group sues Biden and National Archives over delay of JFK assassination records.

Forty-one of the 561 enslaved Africans on board the "Guerrero" died when the illegal slave ship sank off the Florida Keys in 1827.

The vintage pair of jeans was pulled from a dusty abandoned mineshaft.

Uncovering the earliest surviving fragment of Black-produced cinema.

On the importance of material ownership in the context of Black history.

What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?

Philadelphia and the dark history of collecting human remains.