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Piecing Together a Border’s History, One Love Letter at a Time

Finding a puzzle from the past in a family member’s basement.

by Miroslava Chávez-García via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 16, 2018

Atomic Bonds

What was J. Robert Oppenheimer doing with a book about science in early America?

by Nadine Zimmerli via Uncommon Sense on May 3, 2018

The Last Slave

In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston recorded the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last living slave-ship survivor. It languished in a vault... until now.

by Zora Neale Hurston, Nick Tabor via Vulture on April 29, 2018

Remembering Native American Lynching Victims

Research shows that many more Native Americans were lynched than previously believed.

by Cecily Hilleary via VOA on April 25, 2018

North Street, Boston, in 1894.

Secrets of a Brothel Privy

An archaeologist reconstructs the daily lives of 19th-century sex workers in Boston.

by Anna Goldfield via Sapiens on March 6, 2018

Slavery and the American University

Determined researchers are finally drawing the lines between higher education and America's original sin.

by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on February 7, 2018

‘Some Observations on the NFL and Negro Players’

Newly discovered league memo from 1966 anticipates controversies over the Colin Kaepernick protest.

by Paul Lukas via Andscape on February 1, 2018

The Lost Giant of American Literature

A major black novelist made a remarkable début. How did he disappear?

by Kathryn Schulz via The New Yorker on January 29, 2018

Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" poster.

Everyone Was Wrong About the Real 'Rosie the Riveter’ for Decades

Here's how the mystery of her true identity was solved.

by James J. Kimble via Made By History on January 23, 2018

A 'Purely Military' Target? Truman’s Changing Language about Hiroshima

A set of speech drafts suggests that Truman may not have fully understood the implications of dropping an atomic bomb on the city.

by Alex Wellerstein via Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog on January 19, 2018

The Sugar Tramp

One man’s obsession with the ephemera of his industry.

by David Singerman on January 10, 2018

The Impossibility of Knowing Mark Twain

Even Twain's own autobiography cannot reveal the whole truth of the literary legend.

by Gary Scharnhorst via The Paris Review on January 9, 2018

The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota

The Experimental City revisits the plan for a futuristic Minnesota city that would solve urban problems.

by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on January 2, 2018

What The Industry Knew About Sugar's Health Effects, But Didn't Tell Us

A new report says the sugar industry pulled the plug on evidence linking sugar consumption to heart disease.

by Allison Aubrey via NPR on November 21, 2017

A World in a Box

Harvard digitizes two centuries of colonial history.

by Benjamin Breen on November 15, 2017

A Night at the Garden

Newly discovered footage of the time 20,000 American Nazis descended upon midtown Manhattan.

by Marshall Curry via Field Of Vision on October 10, 2017

What Planned Parenthood Looked Like in The 1940s

Following WWII, the birth control organization published illustrated pamphlets with authoritative guidance on family planning.

by Claire Voon via Hyperallergic on October 5, 2017

Keeper of the Secrets

Is there a special value in archives that are not digitized?

by James Somers via Village Voice on September 20, 2017

Two American soldiers in Pleiku, South Vietnam, home to an American airbase in May 1967.

Studying the Vietnam War

How the scholarship has changed.

by Mark Atwood Lawrence via Humanities on September 16, 2017

The Forced Absence of Slavery: Rare Letters to a Virginia Governor

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is taking steps to commemorate enslaved people who worked for his predecessor nearly 200 years ago.

by Gregory S. Schneider via Retropolis on September 13, 2017

The Mystery of Sylvia Plath's Lost Novel

Sylvia Plath started writing 'Double Exposure,' a fictionalized autobiography about an artist who discovers her husband has cheated on her. Then the novel went missing.

by Allison McNearney via The Daily Beast on August 6, 2017

John Quincy Adams Kept a Diary and Didn’t Skimp on the Details

On the occasion of his 250th birthday, the making of our sixth president in his own words.

by Sara Georgini via Smithsonian on July 11, 2017

“Jingle Bells” History Takes Surprising Turn

A researcher in Boston discovers that the beloved Christmas favorite was first performed in a Boston minstrel hall.

by Joel Brown via BU Today on December 8, 2016

Long-Lost Manuscript Has a Searing Eyewitness Account of Tulsa Race Massacre

A lawyer details the attack by hundreds of whites on the black neighborhood where hundreds died 95 years ago.

by Allison Keyes via Smithsonian on May 27, 2016

Bombing Nagasaki: The Scrapbook

A "yearbook" documents the U.S. military occupation of Nagasaki in the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

by Clark Parker via The Tokyo Files Archives on May 2, 2016

Lewis and Clark expedition, with Sacagawea whitened out in the center.

How The West Was Wrong: The Mystery Of Sacagawea

Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.

by Natalie Shure via BuzzFeed News on October 11, 2015

Living History: The John Feathers Map Collection

A documentary about an extraordinary hidden treasure and the reclusive soul that protected it for years.

by Alec Ernest via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 8, 2015

Malcolm X.

Malcolm X Assassination: 50 Years On, Mystery Still Clouds Details of the Case

Despite Freedom of Information requests throughout the years, New York still will not release records to the public.

by Garrett Felber via The Guardian on February 21, 2015

My Great-Great-Grandfather and an American Indian Tragedy

A personal investigation of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

by Michael Allen via The Wall Street Journal on November 24, 2014

Was John Hancock’s Signature Too Big? Or Was Everyone Else’s Too Small?

We hold this truth to be self-evident: John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence was too big.

by Ben Blatt via Slate on August 5, 2014

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