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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.

Why historians like to think of themselves as detectives.

Loved and loathed, the toy stirs fresh controversy at age 64.

A collection of high school yearbooks from Cleveland captures the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the American middle class.

A nineteenth-century twist on love at first sight.

These images of the LA Alligator Farm depict a level of casual proximity unthinkable today.

“A camping area is a form, however primitive, of a city” —Constant Nieuwenhuys

Tying frilly white doves and normative bride-and-groom couples to feminist art and DIY craft practices that offer opportunities for creativity and fantasy.

Finding the forgotten and racialized landscape of Civil War memory.

My hunt for one man across the lonely expanse of the queer past ended in a place I never expected.

How Charles Lamb and his collection of well-loved books inspired a generation of American collectors.

Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.

After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought.

The frightening character who appears amid US union disputes can be traced back to a single factory, which wasn’t unionized.

The Black Woman’s Organizing Archive highlights work in the 19th and 20th centuries that benefitted Black women and American society as a whole.

Notions of women during the Civil War center on self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, or the home front. However, women charged into battle, too.

The complicated and visceral issue of how we preserve our history offers an opportunity for meaningful discourse.