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The huge, declassified document includes death threats, red scare performances, and extensive investigation into her Yahoo! Groups fan site.

The grass-covered mounds represent 11,000 years of human history.

The sinister history of fumigating “foreign” books.

In a forbidding Wyoming desert, scientists and fortune hunters search for the surprisingly intact remains of horses and other creatures that lived long ago.

The new Army bra is the latest chapter in a longtime partnership.

An interview on the queer history of a forgotten prison.

The papers of American labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) offer a snapshot of early twentieth-century politics.

In midcentury America, the machine itself became a character.

Weird, revealing, and incredibly fun to read.

A pile of mammoth bones offers evidence that people were living in the region as early as 37,000 years ago.

The Smithsonian’s first update to its collection policy in 20 years proposes ethical returns and shared ownership. But will it bring transformational change?

A great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith Jr. found the Mormon prophet’s photo tucked inside a locket passed down for generations.

The piece of paper went missing for nearly 200 years, leaving some scholars to question whether it even existed.

Let’s consider the significance and responsibility of outlining, drafting, and shaping our nation as the Founding Fathers put pen to paper.

Previously only rumored to exist, the two-minute film depicts a Mardi Gras parade from 1898.

Why Barnum Brown could not stop collecting.

Philadelphia portrait studios in the Age of the Daguerreotype (1840-1849).

When Ruggles Mine went up for auction, mineral collectors feared it would never reopen to the public. After a last-minute reprieve, its future is still uncertain.

Researchers combed through 19th-century records and found evidence of the species, which joined a menagerie that included Galapagos tortoises and kangaroos.

In Hell Creek, Montana, with a lot of dynamite.

In the twentieth century, the mollusk-produced gem was a must have for members of WASP gentility. In the twenty-first century, its appeal is far more inclusive.

As the gunmakers’ markets matured through the Civil War era, some began mastering the art of product promotion, following the lead set by Samuel Colt.

If Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had his way, the state’s past of lynching Blacks would be taught as an exception rather than the rule. History tells a different story.

These men, women and children betrayed the Union and spied for the Confederacy. They're featured in a new online exhibit from the Wall of Spies Experience.

A haunting exploration of “My Old Kentucky Home” reveals how a minstrel song rooted in slavery became a nostalgic American icon embedded in consumer culture.

To colonial Americans, termination was as normal as the ABCs and 123s.

What the traces left behind in “antique” US census records can tell us about the life of data and its official uses.

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, this single 77 by 55 centimeter sheet tells multiple stories in both text and illustration.

Some recordings in the New York Public Library’s wax cylinder collection haven’t been heard in generations—until now.

Museums that harbor unethically obtained human remains are undergoing a reckoning. It’s about time.