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Tamara Thomsen discovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota in 2021, spurring efforts to catalog historic canoes statewide.

The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools.

Belle da Costa Greene, a brilliant archivist, buried her own history.

A new release of an 1891 song by Louis Vasnier deepens what we know about the genre’s origins.

Getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives.

John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?

The popular reception of thongs, bras, boy shorts and other intimate items.

How researchers analyzed limestone to determine the age and origins of the grave maker, which marked the final resting place of a prominent Jamestown colonist.

The evolution of baseball’s perfect lineup.

As the nation’s highest court debated Native sovereignty, I was in the archives, uncovering family stories entwined with those debates.

Newly-released FBI files show a lot of strange threats against the former secretary of state’s safety—and say a lot about 1970s America.

Empty chairs, empty tables, and the dismantling of the American Dream.

What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?

This large database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the military-justice system rarely punishes perpetrators.

Documents show Henry Kissinger misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Salvador Allende.

A newly digitized set of records reveals the plight and bravery of enslaved people in the North.

Klaxon horns, once standard safety equipment, disappeared from the roads after World War I. But the tensions they exposed about urban noise still echo.

The supposed recluse constantly sent letters to friends, family, and lovers. What do they show us?

President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane is starting to look like itself again.

When picture postcards began circulating with a frenzy at the turn of the 20th century, a certain motif proved popular: photographs of people posed with books.

From loading up the Wayback Machine to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing what they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.

"The Bondwoman’s Narrative" is the first novel by a Black woman to describe slavery from the inside. Recently, scholars have discovered her true identity.

Women on the homefront planned future homes with scrapbooks, blending wartime duty with dreams of postwar prosperity and modern comforts.

For every moment of historical significance, there is a figure — often hidden — who fed the figures we do remember.

What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age?

Concerns about privacy and pressures regarding the physical appearance of women and their homes contributed to the failure of AT&T’s 1960s Picturephone.

Long before Google Maps, an intrepid inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes captured a groundbreaking view of Gotham in its Jazz Age glory.

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.

Herders carved names, slogans, nude silhouettes and more into the trees around them. Now, researchers rush to find the arborglyphs before they disappear.

Who created it? What was it meant for? And how did it come to be what it is today?