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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.

In the 1970s board games joined TV, film, books, and other media in exploring the state of the environment.

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.

The Atlantic Monthly reported on newly found love letters between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, his supposed sweetheart. Even biographers fell for the hoax.

The humble drinking fountain can tell us much about a society’s attitudes towards health, hygiene, equity, virtue, public goods and civic responsibilities.

Archival records of Black southerners' military desertion tribunals can be read as a distinct form of political action.

A Spanish-language pamphlet by Cotton Mather explodes the Black-versus-white binary that dominates most discussions of race in our time.

Historians must read every imperfect archive with a particular perspicacity, to uncover the histories so many archives were meant to suppress or erase.

Understanding puzzles as agents of disorder runs counter to a common interpretation that associates puzzles with the quest for order.

On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled off the assembly line. Some 55 years later, the last one has left its factory.

Long before monuments to enslavers were removed, lawmakers decided to relocate a scandalous, half-naked depiction of George Washington in a toga.

Four tapes mysteriously donated reveal uncertainty within the death chamber—and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

Discovery of Phillis Wheatley's earliest known elegy in a commonplace book gives us important insights into her early life and how her work circulated.

They were made by Alexander Graham Bell and his fellow researchers between 1881 and 1892