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Howard University librarian Dorothy Porter with a student in the 1950s.

Cataloging Black Knowledge

How Dorothy Porter assembled and organized a premier Africana research collection.
by Zita Cristina Nunes via Perspectives on History on November 20, 2018
A British Mark series tank, Péronne, France, circa 1917

Into the Trenches in Red and Blue

Looking at color photographs of WWI feels like seeing a familiar scene through a different pair of eyeglasses.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on September 5, 2014
Russian infantry in position at the beginning of World War I in 1914.

1914: Into the Fire

An excerpt from Béla Zombory-Moldován’s recently discovered memoir of World War I, "The Burning of the World."
by Béla Zombory-Moldován via New York Review of Books on July 28, 2014

Brothers in Arms

The secrets and service of a World War II family, 76 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
by Dan Lamothe via Washington Post on December 6, 2017
A still from the film The Sinking of the Lusitania by Winsor McCay. The Lusitania is hit by an exploding torpedo. The film was released in 1918, three years after the incident.

Winsor McCay Animates the Sinking of the Lusitania in a Beautiful Propaganda Film

Animation pioneer Winsor McCay also innovated animated propaganda.
by Jonathan Crow via Open Culture on May 6, 2014
A digitized page of the 1920 United States census, one of the public record collections users can pay to view on Ancestry.com.

Ancestry.com Is In Cahoots With Public Records Agencies, A Group Suspects

A nonprofit claims its request for genealogical records from state archives was brushed aside in favor of Ancestry’s request.
by Katie Notopoulos via BuzzFeed News on October 22, 2018
Grave marker from a slave cemetery at the Estouteville Plantation in central Virginia.

The Hidden History of African-American Burial Sites in the Antebellum South

Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.
by Evan Nicole Brown via Atlas Obscura on October 25, 2018
The Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco.

The Internet’s Keepers?

Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive.
by Nathan Matisse via Ars Technica on October 7, 2018
President Johnson with Gen. William Westmoreland in South Vietnam in 1967.

U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show

An American military commander wanted to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam to prevent defeat in a battle, but Johnson refused.
by David E. Sanger via New York Times on October 6, 2018
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Mum’s the Word

In the height of the Cold War, the NSA created a series of posters to keep its secrets from leaking. They're both wonderful and creepy.
by Benjamin Breen on October 5, 2018
Dolls from the collection of Deborah Neff.

What the Black Dolls Say

These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.
by Elizabeth Pochoda via The Nation on September 17, 2018

Reconsidering the Black Panthers Through Photos

A collection of photos show what life was like within the Black Panthers.
by Maurice Berger via New York Times on September 8, 2016