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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.

Unveiling the 1950 Census reveals the value of these types of records.

Digitization allows researchers to trace editorial and authorial changes in archival content. Both are central to the study of this famous abolitionist pamphlet.

The letters show a desire for freedom and a desperate longing to be reunited with their families.

The female image is ubiquitous on social media, yet when it comes to pictures of parents with their children many moms feel disappeared.

Discover the stories, spaces, and people of the American Revolutionary War era through maps, interpretive essays, and interactives.

Trump’s shredding of paper in the White House was far more widespread and indiscriminate than previously known.

A document thought lost to history shows how Sojourner Truth became the first Black woman to successfully sue white men to get her son released from slavery.

Why did a local official, at the turn of the twentieth century, maintain a ledger tracking Chinese residents?

Of the 270,000 photos commissioned to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed.” Explore the hole-punched archive and the void at its center.

There are revelations in a newly digitized collection of slave narratives compiled by a professor and his students during the Great Depression.

A Black cowboy named George McJunkin found a site that would transform views about the history of Native Americans in North America.

Almon F. Rockwell's newly resurfaced journals, excerpted exclusively here, offer an incisive account of the assassinated presidents' final moments.

They’ve just been sitting in the dining room all this time.

Virginia Tech project finds forgotten Army surveys that reveal World War II lingo and “the good, the bad, the ugly, heroic, not heroic” attitudes of soldiers.

The polarizing dessert that people love to hate became a Christmas mainstay thanks, in part, to the U.S. Postal Service.

Photos reveal how people structured their living rooms before the television became widespread.

Historian Melanie Newport turns to eBay.

You can work around some of the holes this lack of access creates, but it takes years.

Researchers discovered the remains of a mid-19th century house, a centuries-old Chinese coin and other traces of the short-lived town of Terrace.

A 90-year-old amateur archaeologist who claimed to have detonated the first atomic bomb was one of the most prolific grave robbers in modern American history.

The story played out very differently in Philadelphia and Charleston, and not in the way you might expect.

New technical analysis dates Yale's Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested.

Will the Black body ever have the opportunity to rest in peace?