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A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to Native Americans, but descendants are still waiting.

The answer reveals grave robbing problems for America’s deceased leaders.

The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.

Earthen Indigenous burial mounds were created in the shape of birds, reptiles and mammals.

A former park ranger is on the hunt to complete a collection of posters by artists commissioned by the government celebrating national parks.

The archives of the historically Black Tuskegee University recently released recordings from 1957 to 1971, with a number by powerful civil rights leaders.

The history and legacy of a beautiful project to record thousands of new fruit varieties.

For those in later years, the bell’s value lay not in its powerful sound, but in its visual representation.

In the heart of New York City, a centuries-long hunt for Revolutionary War–era gold.

The beauty parlor became a place of sociability for women in the twentieth century, partly aided by modern technology of hair drying.

The winding story of how a trove of 8,000 of the poet’s family objects were saved.

To judge from the Concord collection, the public forum of antebellum America was no model of democratic deliberation.

When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law.

Prominent institutions, such as the Smithsonian, have historically erased or omitted US women from archival records.

Historians owe a debt of gratitude to these furry pilferers.

For centuries, the infamous Boss Tweed was blamed for destroying its dino-models—but what really happened is even weirder.

The “Barbie” movie glides over the history of dolls as powerful cultural objects.

How did record collecting and stereophile culture come to exclude women as consumers and experts?

An archaeologist explains why a museum keeps so many bones from the Jones-Miller site, an ice age bison kill on the North American plains.

The records of a New York surveillance committee from the time of the First Red Scare document a radical world—and its demise.

Before the eagerly-anticipated film hits our screens, we take a look back at the story of the world's most famous doll.

The meaning of coral jewelry in nineteenth-century America.

150 years of typewriter history in the city that invented the QWERTY keyboard.

The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

Tracing the histories and legacies of technology and empire through a wooden bicycle at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum.

The Gadsden flag has reemerged as a provocative antigovernmental symbol, including at the Capitol riot and on license plates. Confederates once loved it, too.

Should museums only exhibit work of their own culture, or should they bring the world to visitors?

What a whaling captain’s logbook can teach us about sperm whales and our oceans.

With more queer history detectives, what could our future look like?

The alleged thieves included one of Connecticut's most prominent sons — former Sen. Prescott Bush, whose son and grandson would both one day be president.