Found

The incredible story of thousands of soldier photographs and letters that never made it home.

In his day, Brown was a celebrated stage magician who incorporated performance into his lectures on abolitionism in the United States and England.

An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.

The famed abolitionist’s father, Ben Ross, sheltered her and family on the Eastern Shore in the 1840s.

Non-fungible tokens and artificial intelligence make tracing the origins of a digital object more fragile. What are the world’s archivists to do?

New York’s 300-year-old trash becomes treasure in the hands of an urban archaeologist.

If Booker T. Washington never knew when he was born, how are we so sure about it now?

The discovery may explain the escape of Captain Henry Every after his murderous raid on an Indian emperor’s ship.

Toward the end of WWI, as the U.S. peddled Liberty Bonds, a goldfish dealer bred a stars-and-stripes-colored carp: a living, swimming embodiment of patriotism.

The story of medical sterilization, which in many cases was disguised as a routine appendectomy surgery.

A gown worn by the first First Lady reveals a dimension of her nature that few have been aware of.

Civil War pension records have a lot to tell us about the lives of U.S. Colored Troops.

To preserve Black history, a 19th-century archivist filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials.

In the course of research about the Red Summer of 1919, a historian in Maine uncovers a disturbing event that took place on her own campus.

Almost a century ago, a network of signals guided airmail pilots across the country. A photographer documents the remnants of this transcontinental system.

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.

In a new book, the often under-appreciated contribution that black soldiers made during the civil war is brought to light with a trove of unseen photos.

Ann Banks on the history of her father's Civil War seal and her family's past connection to the Confederacy.

Implications for public record and legal proceedings after administration seized or destroyed papers, notes and other information.

Thousands of pages of declassified records are available for anyone to peruse.

The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business. But between the frantic calls of “there she blows!”, there was plenty of time for creation too.

2020 was full of efforts to archive photos and artifacts of the pandemic — an impulse born of a sense of witnessing history, and a desire to speak to the future.

Everyday people's creation of porn and erotic objects over the centuries.

The experience of feeling in the archive.

Enslaved.org will allow anyone to search for individual enslaved people around the globe in one central online location.

An unearthed guest register from the Catskill Mountain House sheds light on the artists who spent the night there.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

The treasures include recordings of string quartets, spirituals, sermons and politicians who might have been startled to hear the sound of their own voices.

Lessons about “dark age cruelty” and the limits of reformism from 90 years ago.

A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.