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Living History: The John Feathers Map Collection
A documentary about an extraordinary hidden treasure and the reclusive soul that protected it for years.
by
Alec Ernest
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
March 8, 2015
Can the Internet be Archived?
The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its past.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
January 26, 2015
The History of the Ordinary
An early 20th-century scrapbook put together by Company 62 of the New York City Fire Department.
by
Laura Bang
,
Ruth Martin
via
The Public Domain Review
on
June 7, 2014
Here's How Memes Went Viral - In the 1800s
The Infectious Texts project is the compilation of 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from the Library of Congress.
by
Greg Miller
via
Wired
on
November 4, 2013
Revisions in Red
A scholar wrestles with the legacy of her grandfather, onetime leader of America’s Communist Party.
by
Laura Browder
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
November 19, 2012
The Poetics of History from Below
All good storytellers tell a big story within a little story, and so do all good historians.
by
Marcus Rediker
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Perspectives on History
on
September 1, 2010
Slave Voyages
This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them.
via
Emory Libraries And Information Technology
on
December 15, 2008
Secrets in the Stacks
A new book demonstrates that the skills taught and honed in the humanities are of vital importance to the defense of democracy.
by
Richard Ovenden
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Public Books
on
May 22, 2025
The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
by
Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
on
April 28, 2025
Ambition, Discipline, Nerve
The qualities that enabled Belle da Costa Greene to cross the color line also made her a formidable negotiator and collector for J.P. Morgan’s library.
by
Heather O’Donnell
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New York Review of Books
on
April 24, 2025
American History Needs More Names
Identifying Sophie Mousseau from a Civil War-Era photo helps us understand our complex past.
by
Martha A. Sandweiss
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Zócalo Public Square
on
April 21, 2025
A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph
O-o-be' stood out in an era when smiles on camera weren't common.
by
Ted Mills
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Open Culture
on
March 30, 2025
Christ vs. Culture, Religion vs. Politics
Religious leaders hid behind the separation of church and state to uphold the institution of slavery and the forcible removal of Native Americans.
by
Emily Conroy-Krutz
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Panorama
on
March 26, 2025
The Necessity of History for the EPA
Using evidence to remind us.
by
Adam M. Sowards
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Taking Bearings
on
March 5, 2025
How a Leading Black Historian Uncovered Her Own Family’s Painful Past
Martha S. Jones’ new memoir draws on genealogical research and memories shared by relatives.
by
Martha S. Jones
,
Sara Georgini
via
Smithsonian
on
March 5, 2025
‘A Vehicle of Genocide’: These Mass. Towns Were Founded on the Killing of Native Americans
Estimates say that millions of dollars and tens of thousands of acres of land throughout New England were given to soldiers who scalped Native Americans.
by
Andrew Botolino
via
WGBH
on
February 3, 2025
The Hidden Story of J. P. Morgan’s Librarian
Belle da Costa Greene, a brilliant archivist, buried her own history.
by
Hilton Als
via
The New Yorker
on
December 16, 2024
Is Virginia Tracy the First Great American Film Critic?
The actress, screenwriter, and novelist’s reviews and essays from 1918-19 display a comprehensive grasp of movie art and a visionary sense of its future.
by
Richard Brody
via
The New Yorker
on
November 25, 2024
Historians Killing History
The driving question of scholarship should be “what is the evidence for your argument?” Instead, it has become “whose side are you on?”
by
Katherine C. Epstein
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Liberties Journal
on
October 1, 2024
Journalist Withheld Information About Emmett Till’s Murder, Documents Show
William Bradford Huie’s newly released research notes show he suspected more than two men tortured and killed Emmett Till, but suggest that he left it out.
by
Gillian Brockell
via
Retropolis
on
August 29, 2024
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How Do We Tell a Tale of People Who Sought to Disappear?
The life of John Andrew Jackson — and the vacillating richness and scarcity of the archive.
by
Susanna Ashton
via
HNN
on
August 13, 2024
The Myth America Show
The anthology drama provided a venue for discourses on American national identity during the massive cultural, economic, and political changes occurring at midcentury.
by
Josie Torres Barth
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
July 13, 2024
partner
Something We Were Never Meant to See
Finding a story in the ways Robert Ray Hamilton, John Dudley Sargent, and Edith Sargent weren’t quite forgotten.
by
Maura Jane Farrelly
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HNN
on
July 9, 2024
In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane
If ever a book ought not to be judged by its cover, Edgar Allan Poe’s debut collection, "Tamerlane and Other Poems," is that book.
by
Bradford Morrow
via
Literary Hub
on
June 25, 2024
On Raymond Thompson’s “Appalachian Ghost”
Black miners were intentionally erased from the record of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster. A new book reinserts them into the narrative.
by
Jody DiPerna
via
Belt Magazine
on
June 20, 2024
From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Created for US insurance firms during devastating fires across the 19th and 20th centuries, the Sanborn maps blaze with detail the aspects of American cities.
by
Tobiah Black
via
The Public Domain Review
on
June 12, 2024
Human Velocity
“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” upends long-held assumptions about trans people’s participation in sports.
by
Michael Waters
,
Frankie de la Cretaz
via
The Baffler
on
June 7, 2024
Why Would Anyone Want to Run the World?
The warnings in Cold War history.
by
John Lewis Gaddis
via
Foreign Affairs
on
June 7, 2024
Eight Clues
Recovering a life in fragments, Arthur Bowler in slavery and freedom.
by
Jane Lancaster
via
Journal of the American Revolution
on
June 6, 2024
Connecting with Trans History, Rebellion, and Joy, in “Compton’s 22”
Transgender people's reactions to watching oral histories of the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.
by
Drew de Pinto
via
The New Yorker
on
June 5, 2024
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