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The History of American Newspapers is More Searchable Than Ever

A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today's problems are new.
by Joshua Benton via Nieman Lab on February 2, 2021
photograph of a woman from a carpeta

A New Photo Exhibit Looks at Decades of FBI Surveillance on American Citizens

A new book shares a cautionary tale of the American surveillance state.
by Christopher Gregory-Rivera, Pia Peterson via BuzzFeed News on January 29, 2021
Sergeant Major William L. Henderson and hospital steward Thomas H.S. Pennington of Twentieth US Colored Troops Infantry Regiment in uniform.

'Black Resistance Endured': Paying Tribute to Civil War Soldiers of Color

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.
by Nadja Sayej via The Guardian on January 27, 2021
Priest standing at pulpit. Caption: Timothy Kesicki, S.J., apologizes for the Jesuits’ sin of owning and selling people. Gaston Hall, Georgetown University, April 18, 2017.

The Jesuits and Slavery

Despite extensive historiography, most people are not aware that the Society of Jesus owned people.
by Adam Rothman via Journal Of Jesuit Studies on December 15, 2020

The Small, Midwestern Town Taken Over by Fake Communists

In the 1950s, residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin, staged a coup to warn of the red menace. The lessons of that historical footnote have never been more relevant.
by Brett Rosenberg via The New Republic on October 22, 2020

City Sketches and the Census

Life across the United States in 1880.
by Bailey DeSimone via Library of Congress on October 20, 2020
Charles Milton Bell, Apsáalooke Delegation, 1880.

Apsáalooke Bacheeítuuk in Washington, DC

A case study in re-reading nineteenth-century delegation photography.
by Wendy Red Star, Shannon Vittoria via Panorama on October 1, 2020
The author's great-grandparents, Ida Brown and Nathan “Jack” Dashow, in their 1920 wedding photo.

How My Great-Grandmother Lost Her U.S. Citizenship The Year Women Got The Right to Vote

In 1920, my American-born great-grandmother, Ida Brown, married a Russian immigrant in New York City.
by Jayne Orenstein via Retropolis on August 13, 2020
Fugitive slaves riding on horseback.

The Black Collectors Who Championed African-American Art during the U.S. Civil War

Dorsey and Thomas amassed important collections at a time when the future of chattel slavery and Black life hung in the balance of a national quarrel.
by Jordan McDonald via Artsy on August 11, 2020

When Is a Nazi Salute Not a Nazi Salute?

Were the celebrities in this 1941 photograph making a patriotic gesture or paying their respects to Hitler?
by Matt Seaton via New York Review of Books on July 25, 2020

On the Uses of History for Staying Alive

Reflections on reading Nietzsche in Alaska in the early days of Covid-19.
by Bathsheba Demuth via The Point on July 12, 2020
1975 digital camera prototype

How the Digital Camera Transformed Our Concept of History

We’re capturing the mundane as well as the memorable.
by Allison Marsh via IEEE Spectrum on June 30, 2020
A drawing of two diamonds

Last Pole

The author goes looking for the history of telecommunication, and is left sitting in the slim shadow of a lightning rod, listening to a voice from beyond the grave.
by Julian Chehirian via The Public Domain Review on May 27, 2020

Slavery Documents from Southern Saltmakers Bring Light to Dark History

For one West Virginia community, the acquisition is a missing puzzle piece to questions about slavery in the state.
by Makeda Easter via Los Angeles Times on April 16, 2020

What We Can Learn From 1918 Influenza Diaries

These letters and journals offer insights on how to record one's thoughts amid a pandemic.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on April 13, 2020

White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
by Bradley D. Proctor via The Activist History Review on December 6, 2019

The Genealogy Boom Has Hit a Roadblock. The Trump Administration Plans Huge Fee Hikes for Immigration Records.

The fees could rise nearly 500 percent for files documenting the arrival of millions of immigrants to the U.S. between the late 19th and mid 20th centuries
by Sydney Trent via Washington Post on December 5, 2019
Mosher’s Memorial Offering to Chicago.” Detail from backmark of a Charles D. Mosher’s memorial photograph.

Buried Treasures

Researching the history of time capsules.
by Elyse Martin via Perspectives on History on November 25, 2019
Artwork titled Notes from Tervuren, featuring a figure against a multicolored painted music sheet.

Talking Drums

On the relationship between African American music traditions and one of the most infamous slave revolts, the Stono Rebellion, in colonial South Carolina.
by John Jeremiah Sullivan via Oxford American on November 19, 2019
A clue and black clay figuring with a Sony Watchman attached as its "head."

Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick.

Our past on the internet is disappearing before we can make it history.
by Tanner Howard via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 4, 2019

Letters of the Damned: Exorcising the Curse of the Petrified Forest

Letters come in each year with pilfered stones from the national park, hoping to break the senders' curse.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on July 29, 2019

All the Presidents’ Librarians

Presidential libraries are too important for historians to ignore.
by Michael Koncewicz via Contingent on July 19, 2019
John H. Johnson

The World-Class Photography of Ebony and Jet is Priceless History. It's Still Up For Sale.

There's a lot more than money at stake in the impending auction.
by Allison Miller via Perspectives on History on July 9, 2019

Jane Addams, Mary Rozet Smith, And The Disappointments of One-Sided Correspondence

Lost letters between Jane Addams and her best friend leave questions for historians,
by Stacy Pratt McDermott via Jane Addams Papers Project on July 1, 2019

Against the Great Man Theory of Historians

Without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, Robert Caro's new memoir is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Jacobin on June 12, 2019
Emma Grimes Robinson

These Photo Albums Offer a Rare Glimpse of 19th-Century Boston’s Black Community

Thanks to the new acquisition, scholars at the Athenaeum library are connecting the dots of the city’s history of abolitionists.
by Dana Lorch via Smithsonian on May 29, 2019
Hop Louie Restaurant in Los Angeles, California.

The Old Menus of New Chinatown

Retracing the history of Chinatown in Los Angeles using old Chinese restaurant menus as a guide.
by Aric Allen via Aricallen.com on May 28, 2019
Police car.
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What the Loss of the New York Police Museum Means for Criminal-Justice Reform

Without historical records, we lose key insights into how law enforcement works — and how it fails.
by Matthew Guariglia via Made by History on May 22, 2019

Secret Archives Show US Helped Argentine Military Wage ‘Dirty War’ That Killed 30,000

The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the US.
by Rut Diamint via The Conversation on May 10, 2019
Internet Archive servers.

Data Overload

How will the historians of the future manage the massive archival data our society has begun to compile on the internet?
by Seth Denbo via Perspectives on History on May 7, 2019
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