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Mountains on the cover of the Master Plan for Mount Rainier National Park.

The Early Master Plans for National Parks Are Almost as Beautiful as the Parks Themselves

In the 1930s, park planning was pretty.
by Anika Burgess via Atlas Obscura on September 7, 2017
Lithograph book illustration of pirates of America.

A Treasure Trove of Trials

This collection of piracy trials comprises documents that were published before 1923 and that are part of the holdings of the Law Library of Congress.
by Francisco Macías via Library of Congress on September 5, 2017
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The Executive Abroad

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.
by Robert K. Nelson via American Panorama on June 27, 2017
Street map of San Francisco marking the old shoreline and the locations of dozens of buried ships.

New Map Reveals Ships Buried Below San Francisco

Dozens of vessels that brought gold-crazed prospectors to the city in the 19th century still lie beneath the streets.
by Greg Miller via National Geographic on June 2, 2017
Screenshot from "The Oregon Trail" computer game

The Forgotten History of 'The Oregon Trail,' As Told By Its Creators

You must always caulk the wagon. Never ford the river.
by Paul Dillenberger, Bill Heinemann, Don Rawitsch, Kevin Wong via Vice on February 15, 2017
Two A-4C Skyhawks fly past the USS Kearsarge. (Photo: U.S. Navy/public domain)

Bombing Missions of the Vietnam War

A visual record of the largest aerial bombardment in history.
by Cooper Thomas via ArcGIS StoryMaps on January 9, 2017
Dam from a distance

The Book of the Dead

In Fayette County, West Virginia, expanding the document of disaster.
by Catherine Venable Moore via Oxford American on December 6, 2016
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
Map of Minneapolis showing density and locations of restrictive covenenants

Mapping Prejudice

Racial covenants and housing discrimination in 20th century Minneapolis.
via University of Minnesota on June 1, 2016
Graph depicting deaths from cholera in New York City in 1849

Infographics in the Time of Cholera

To inform its readers of a cholera epidemic, The New York Tribune published an ancestor to our current infographics.
by Scott Klein via ProPublica on March 16, 2016
Scientists attend to banks of monitors at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston in 1965.

Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard

Futuristic control rooms with endless screens of blinking data are proliferating in cities across the globe. Welcome to the age of Dashboard Governance.
by Shannon Mattern via Places Journal on March 1, 2015

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