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Chart of names of and payments to enslaved people.

Confederate Slave Payrolls Shed Light on Lives of 19th-Century African American Families

The Confederate Army required owners to loan their slaves to the military. The National Archives has now digitized those records.

by Victoria Macchi via U.S. National Archives on March 3, 2020

Open books.

InterLibrary Loan Will Change Your Life

A brief history (and celebration) of the apex of human civilization.

by Nick Ripatrazone via Literary Hub on August 7, 2019

Guilty of Miscegenation

A look at anti-miscegenation laws across the United States.

via BackStory on February 15, 2019

Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras

A look at the ornate float and costume designs from Carnival’s “Golden Age."

by Allison C. Meier via The Public Domain Review on February 7, 2018

Woman preparing to digitize a manuscript document.

Archives in the Digital Age

How digital archives shape historical research and collective memory.

Words from Merriam-Webster's "Time Traveler"

Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster

An interactive feature that displays the new words that were used in print each year, going back centuries.

via Merriam-Webster on August 15, 2017

How Advertisers Have Used Maps to Try to Sell You Stuff

A huge collection of “persuasive maps” — newly available online — reveals how our trust in cartography can be used to sway us.

by Betsy Mason via National Geographic on May 5, 2017

An "Information Wanted" advertisement from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Courtesy of the National Archives.

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery

Last Seen is recovering stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade. The following explains how the project engages with these family histories.

via Villanova University on August 1, 2016

Pixelated image of ancient ruins with columns

Raiders of the Lost Web

If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.

by Adrienne LaFrance via The Atlantic on October 14, 2015

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