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A case study in re-reading nineteenth-century delegation photography.

YouTubers are using AI to bring history to life. But historians argue the process is nonsense.

The authors of a new photography book explain how their project took shape.

The filmmaker and photographer’s work shows late-sixties Black activism to be a joyful, community-building project.

After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.

A lawsuit against Harvard University demands the return of an ancestor’s stolen image.

After two decades in a filing cabinet and three next to a parking lot in Baltimore, the author returns to New York.

Were the celebrities in this 1941 photograph making a patriotic gesture or paying their respects to Hitler?

Images from a century ago of people doing their best to keep others and themselves safe.

When Nicholson Baker searched for the truth about biological weapons, he found a fog of redaction.

What seemed to enrage a former inmate most was the mutual consent of the men he lived with.

An 1813 correspondence demonstrates that medical expertise in early America was not limited to men or physicians.

Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.

Reports in the underground press demonstrate how Juneteenth has been celebrated as both a social and political gathering in the twentieth century.

Original footage of ironworkers constructing the Chrysler Building (1929-30).

Lessons from another time of great disillusionment.

For one West Virginia community, the acquisition is a missing puzzle piece to questions about slavery in the state.

These letters and journals offer insights on how to record one's thoughts amid a pandemic.

What changes each decade, what stays the same, and what do the questions say about American culture and society?

The Timms provide the history behind their collection of 20th century mail-order novelty items.

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

I live in a place where the wind blows history into my path.

How the dental history of the nation’s first president is interwoven with slavery and privilege.

A missing pilot and her poems.

The last British monarch to reign over the American colonies had a collection of more than 55,000 maps, each with their own story to tell.

What does the past sound like – and can listening to it help us understand history better?

Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, digitized 75 years after they were made, offer lessons for Americans today.

Black midwives were central to community health networks in the South.

Through her relationships with other women, one can trace the evidence of McCullers’s becoming, as a woman, as a lesbian, and as a writer.

Samuel Freedman rereads 1975's "Blue-Collar Aristocrats."