Found

You can work around some of the holes this lack of access creates, but it takes years.

Researchers discovered the remains of a mid-19th century house, a centuries-old Chinese coin and other traces of the short-lived town of Terrace.

A 90-year-old amateur archaeologist who claimed to have detonated the first atomic bomb was one of the most prolific grave robbers in modern American history.

The story played out very differently in Philadelphia and Charleston, and not in the way you might expect.

New technical analysis dates Yale's Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested.

Will the Black body ever have the opportunity to rest in peace?

New media meets old.

Zooming in on the places where early women photographers could build a career.

Or, a lost freedom story I found while looking for something else.

Was cartoonist Billy Ireland’s pen really mightier than the burning crosses of the KKK?

An architectural historian invites us to sit with her awhile on the American porch.

Her memoirs contribute to the inaccurate post-Civil War memory of the Southern plantation.

During WWII, American soldiers brought the flags home as a remembrance. Now, family members and historians must decide what should become of them.

The site offers rare evidence of interactions between de Soto and Indigenous people.

What, exactly, does history lose when an archive-worthy text is destroyed?

The 240-year-old journal of John Claypoole, a Revolutionary War POW and later the third husband of Betsy Ross, sheds light on the flagmaker.

The bones of enslaved furnace workers tell the grim story of their lives.

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

Fifty years later, The Yellow Pages stand as a testament to grassroots ingenuity and the radical idealism of '70s counterculture.

Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical remembrance — and reimagining the archive itself.

America's suggestions for handling the Waco standoff, as found in FBI FOIA files.

How racial hierarchies are embedded within the archival standards and practices that legitimize historical memory.

The surgeons’ observations survive thanks to a remarkable document: an eleven-page published report presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Millions of Americans gained freedom from slavery in a slow-moving wave of emancipation during the Civil War and in the months afterward.

VinePair interviewed eight LGBTQ+ archivers around the country about documenting America’s gay and lesbian bars while they still can.

Remembering a year of hell and devastation—the year of the Spanish flu.

Time capsules unearthed at affordable housing sites offer alternative, lost, and otherwise obscured histories.

Local legacy-keepers are working to ensure that the histories aren't lost or forgotten.

Back when most people made their clothes, one swatch could carry many stories.

Objects and documents, says the Smithsonian historian Paul Gardullo, offer a profound opportunity for reckoning with a past that still lingers.