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Images of Lilli from the February 1956 cover of Spielzeug Export

My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor

The original doll was not made by Mattel but by a business that perfected its practice making plaster casts of Hitler.

by Tarpley Hitt via The Nation on December 6, 2025

Lakota child Sophie Mousseau among a line of U.S. peace commissioners.

Finding Sophie

How a historian identified a Lakota child from a single photograph.

by Martha A. Sandweiss via Princeton University Press on November 19, 2025

Two surviving menstrual pads from the 1850s

Padding Out History: Menstrual Management in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century

How mobile and working women managed menstruation in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

by Caroline Greer via Commonplace on November 18, 2025

The Pittsburgh skyline with a pile of trash in the foreground, 1974.

The EPA's '70s Documerica Series Is Beautiful and Still Urgent

Photographs that show "a country of people made rich at the expense of the environment, but seeing the richness spoiled by a world they’ve destroyed."

by Gideon Leek via Pittsburgh Review of Books on November 5, 2025

Kaleidoscopic portrait of Eliza Schuyler.

The Many Lives of Eliza Schuyler

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.

by Jane Kamensky via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025

King George III

The Myth of Mad King George

He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?

by Rick Atkinson via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025

Collage of photos from a Holocaust survivor.

Uncanny Testimony

As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.

by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee via Longreads on September 25, 2025

Harp and banjos.

Rhiannon Giddens and Kristina Gaddy “Go Back and Fetch It”

The pair’s new book recovers the sound of early Black music.

by Rhiannon Giddens, Kristina R. Gaddy, Christian Leus via Oxford American on September 16, 2025

Chinese fishermen in Monterey, California, 1875.Photograph by Albert Dressler / Courtesy California Historical Society Collection at Stanford

The Ritual of Civic Apology

Cities across the American West are issuing belated apologies for 19th-century expulsions of Chinese residents, but their meaning and audience remain uncertain.

by Beth Lew Williams via The New Yorker on September 13, 2025

UC Berkeley's Campus Women's Forum poster

The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict

How the first Women's Studies department was developed at U.C. Berkeley in the 1970s.

by Annabel Barry, Caroline Godard, Anna Park via Public Books on September 10, 2025

Stanley Greenberg photographing New York City water infrastructure.

A Photographer Brings New York City’s Water System to the Surface

Stanley Greenberg has spent decades answering the question of how water arrives in our taps and building interest in this vast and impressive system.

by Stanley B. Greenberg, Alexis Clements via Hyperallergic on August 10, 2025

National Archives building.

Scratching the Record

On the long history of governments attempting to restrict access to documents about their inner workings.

by Asheesh Kapur Siddique via HNN on July 8, 2025

Filmmaker Oliver Stone speaks to journalists following a hearing with the House Oversight Committee at the US Capitol on April 1, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Oliver Stone Goes to Washington

Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone says we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.

by Oliver Stone, Ed Rampell via Jacobin on April 18, 2025

Cracked marble statue head.

Looks Like Mussolini, Quacks Like Mussolini

The National Garden of American Heroes represents a dangerous shift in values—from inquiry to reverence.

by Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic on April 15, 2025

Trump at the National Archives.

The Nation’s Archivist Should Not Be Political

Trump’s clumsy partisan takeover of the National Archives and Records Administration recalls two consequential and troubling episodes from its history.

by Anthony Clark via The Bulwark on March 12, 2025

A gloved hand reaches for a magnifying glass to view photos on slides.

Photos Are Disappearing, One Archive at a Time

We risk losing not just the images but also our ability to bear witness to history itself.

by Kira Pollack via Washington Post on March 10, 2025

A “mosser” with a load of seaweed bound for the agar factory in Beaufort, N.C.

When Fishermen Harvested Seaweed: The Agar Industry in Beaufort, N.C. during the Second World War

How a small factory off the coast of North Carolina played a role in the war.

by David Cecelski via davidcecelski.com on February 12, 2025

Louis Armstrong performs on the Kraft Music Hall TV show at NBC Studios in Brooklyn in June 1967 in New York.

Louis Armstrong’s Difficult Upbringing Revealed in Family Police Records

A new book reveals the jazz musician’s mother and sister were arrested several times for prostitution in New Orleans.

by Dalya Alberge via The Guardian on February 1, 2025

Frances Perkins

How the First ‘Madam Secretary’ Fought to Save Jewish Refugees Fleeing From Nazi Germany

Frances Perkins’ challenged the United States’ restrictive immigration policies as FDR’s Secretary of Labor.

by Sara Georgini, Rebecca Brenner Graham via Smithsonian Magazine on January 21, 2025

Lerone A. Martin

Christian Nationalists Don’t Want Us To Remember the Real MLK

The same Christian ideology that inspired J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to surveil MLK is alive and well in the Trump administration.

by Lerone A. Martin, Josiah R. Daniels via Sojourners on January 21, 2025

Person using a magnifying glass to examine aerial photographs of naval vessels.

When America’s Top Spies Were Academics and Librarians

How scholars achieved some of the most consequential intelligence victories of the twentieth century.

by Greg Barnhisel via The New Republic on January 16, 2025

A portrait of Major Ridge, an older Cherokee man.

Revealed Through a Mountain of Paperwork

As the nation’s highest court debated Native sovereignty, I was in the archives, uncovering family stories entwined with those debates.

by Rebecca Nagle via HNN on September 24, 2024

An inaccurate Spanish map from the 1500s of the southeast of the United States.

To Understand Mississippi, I Went to Spain

The forces that would shape my home state’s violent history were set in motion by a 480-year-old map made by a Spanish explorer.

by Wright Thompson via The Atlantic on September 17, 2024

A photograph of Waverly Woodson Jr. in his U.S. Army uniform.

The Forgotten Hero of D-Day

Waverly Woodson treated men for 30 hours on Omaha Beach, but his heroism became a casualty of entrenched racism, bureaucracy and Pentagon record-keeping.

by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on June 3, 2024

When NYC Invented Modern Policing: On WWII–Era Surveillance and Discrimination

From the 1880s to the 1940s, New York City was transformed—and so too was the New York City Police Department.

by Matthew Guariglia, Emily M. Brooks via Public Books on April 2, 2024

Portrait of James G. Birney.

The Power of Pamphlets in the Anti-Slavery Movement

Black-authored print was central to James G. Birney’s conversion from enslaver to abolitionist and presidential candidate.

by Marcy J. Dinius via JSTOR Daily on March 25, 2024

Illustration of an AI machine reading a book.

How AI Can Make History

Large language models can do a lot of things. But can they write like an 18th-century fur trader?

by Josh Dzieza via The Verge on February 15, 2024

‘View of Grave Creek Mound’; engraving by Ebenezer Mathers, 1839.

The Plunder and the Pity

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.

by Ian Frazier via New York Review of Books on January 18, 2024

Files in Guatemala’s Historical Archive of the National Police. Photo by Luis Soto.

In the Best Interest of the Child

A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.

by Rachel Nolan, Erin Siegal McIntyre via Guernica on January 16, 2024

Latina suffragists Andrea and Teresa Villarreal.

Recovering Histories of Gendered State Violence

And how those with few resources at their disposal found ways to navigate and negotiate even the direst of situations.

by Sonia Hernandez via Process: A Blog for American History on December 19, 2023

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