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During the first decade of the New Deal, modernist architects designed schools for disabled children that proposed radical visions of civic care.

The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.

On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things.”

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.

Funny, convivial, chatty—a new edition of Emily Dickinson's letters upends the myth of her reclusive genius. 

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.

Marbled paper was a way to make banknotes and checks unique—a critical characteristic for a nascent American Republic.

One of the best-known icons of modern society is a classic example of a symbol—it’s easy to spot, but hard to explain. Who came up with it?

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.

In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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.