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The site offers rare evidence of interactions between de Soto and Indigenous people.

What, exactly, does history lose when an archive-worthy text is destroyed?

The 240-year-old journal of John Claypoole, a Revolutionary War POW and later the third husband of Betsy Ross, sheds light on the flagmaker.

The bones of enslaved furnace workers tell the grim story of their lives.

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

Fifty years later, The Yellow Pages stand as a testament to grassroots ingenuity and the radical idealism of '70s counterculture.

Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical remembrance — and reimagining the archive itself.

America's suggestions for handling the Waco standoff, as found in FBI FOIA files.

How racial hierarchies are embedded within the archival standards and practices that legitimize historical memory.

The surgeons’ observations survive thanks to a remarkable document: an eleven-page published report presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Millions of Americans gained freedom from slavery in a slow-moving wave of emancipation during the Civil War and in the months afterward.

VinePair interviewed eight LGBTQ+ archivers around the country about documenting America’s gay and lesbian bars while they still can.

Remembering a year of hell and devastation—the year of the Spanish flu.

Time capsules unearthed at affordable housing sites offer alternative, lost, and otherwise obscured histories.

Local legacy-keepers are working to ensure that the histories aren't lost or forgotten.

Back when most people made their clothes, one swatch could carry many stories.

Objects and documents, says the Smithsonian historian Paul Gardullo, offer a profound opportunity for reckoning with a past that still lingers.

The incredible story of thousands of soldier photographs and letters that never made it home.

In his day, Brown was a celebrated stage magician who incorporated performance into his lectures on abolitionism in the United States and England.

An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.

The famed abolitionist’s father, Ben Ross, sheltered her and family on the Eastern Shore in the 1840s.

Non-fungible tokens and artificial intelligence make tracing the origins of a digital object more fragile. What are the world’s archivists to do?

New York’s 300-year-old trash becomes treasure in the hands of an urban archaeologist.

If Booker T. Washington never knew when he was born, how are we so sure about it now?

The discovery may explain the escape of Captain Henry Every after his murderous raid on an Indian emperor’s ship.

Toward the end of WWI, as the U.S. peddled Liberty Bonds, a goldfish dealer bred a stars-and-stripes-colored carp: a living, swimming embodiment of patriotism.

The story of medical sterilization, which in many cases was disguised as a routine appendectomy surgery.

A gown worn by the first First Lady reveals a dimension of her nature that few have been aware of.

Civil War pension records have a lot to tell us about the lives of U.S. Colored Troops.

To preserve Black history, a 19th-century archivist filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials.