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It’s time to start learning about Native history from museums and cultural centers that are run by Native nations.

Silence and volume in collections and institutions.

They were one of the most ubiquitous crafts to come out of Japanese incarceration camps. But few knew their back story — until now.

Rare photos from the early 1900s show the 120-year-old system’s pick-and-shovel beginnings.

An eye-witness depiction of the Continental Army passing through Philadelphia hung in a New York apartment for decades.

Better browsers made things worse.

In this new hobby, I found so many stories.

Denied burial alongside Union soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, the 30 or so men were instead buried in the all-Black Lincoln Cemetery.

This nineteenth-century industrial product became a military staple and a critical part of local food culture around the world.

How a California homebuilder remade the Interior West.

A UC Berkeley student’s award-winning research shines a light on LGBTQ+ life in Japanese American concentration camps during World War II.

Charles Lewis Tiffany bought surplus cable from the venture, turning it into souvenirs that forever linked his name to the telecommunications milestone.

Zine-making is a tradition shared by the young and alienated, people enamored with the fringes of culture. Can a museum exhibit capture its essence?

Harriet M. Buss' missives home detail the future congressman's candid views on race and the complicity of Confederate women.

Beginning in 1905, one star-studded song-publishing company would push the aesthetic limits of how Black popular music was shown to the public.

Hot pants served as a sartorial riposte to the fashion industry’s relentless campaign for the midi.

How did Americans come to love “mid-century modern”?

Federal lighthouses symbolized a vigorous young nation barreling toward maturity.

Matter-of-fact accounting of the legal mechanism of slavery provides insight into American history and the country’s fraught present.

When murder won’t rest in peace.

Universal Camouflage Pattern became a symbol of an unpopular war. Today, it’s being reappraised by those too young to remember the invasion of Iraq.

John Mitchell's renowned 1755 map was a part of King George III's extensive collection of topographical charts that helped shape American designs on Canada.

Searching for the first, in the 1860s.

Military archives reveal the brutal history of slavery in the U.S. Army.

Powered by compressed air, the system transported millions of letters between 1897 and 1953.

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

The Smithsonian museum’s collection of human remains contains dozens of brains from vulnerable Washington, D.C., residents, many taken without consent.

Marine archaeologists are beginning to understand what really happened to Captain Santa's ill-fated ship, nicknamed the Christmas Tree Boat.

On Dec. 2, 1948, evidence stashed in a hollowed-out pumpkin incriminated suspected Soviet spy Alger Hiss and boosted a young Richard Nixon’s political status.

How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so.