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Neo-Nazis hold flags during a National Socialist Movement rally at Greenville Street Park in Newnan, Georgia, on April 21, 2018.

On the Rise of “White Power”

The author of a book on paramilitary white supremacy discusses the methods and ethics of researching racial violence.

by Kathleen Belew, Monica Muñoz Martinez via Public Books on April 19, 2019

The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo

Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.

by Nora Caplan-Bricker via The New Yorker on March 11, 2019

Framed portrait of Julia Chinn.

The Erasure and Resurrection of Julia Chinn

Why the nation's ninth vice-president – and his black wife – were purposely forgotten.

by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers via Association of Black Women Historians on March 3, 2019

Sylvia Plath smiling outdoors.

What We Don’t Know About Sylvia Plath

On revelations from a chance graveside encounter.

by Emily Van Duyne via Literary Hub on January 22, 2019

How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices

The librarians who are setting out to make sure the histories of marginalized communities aren't forgotten.

by Rosie Knight via BuzzFeed News on December 30, 2018

Howard University librarian Dorothy Porter with a student in the 1950s.

Cataloging Black Knowledge

How Dorothy Porter assembled and organized a premier Africana research collection.

by Zita Cristina Nunes via Perspectives on History on November 20, 2018

The inside of the CIA museum.

Notes from the Attic

Displaying the material history of the CIA.

by Mahan Moalemi via Cabinet on November 7, 2018

Ancestry.com Is In Cahoots With Public Records Agencies, A Group Suspects

A nonprofit claims its request for genealogical records from state archives was brushed aside in favor of Ancestry’s request.

by Katie Notopoulos via BuzzFeed News on October 22, 2018

How Does a Film Become Lost?

What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.

by Andrew Egan via Tedium on October 11, 2018

The Internet’s Keepers?

Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive.

by Nathan Matisse via Ars Technica on October 7, 2018

Finding Hope: A Woman’s Place is in the Lab

A previously unnamed scientist finally gets her due.

by Ashley Bowen via Circulating Now on September 6, 2018

A Conservative Activist’s Quest to Preserve all Network News Broadcasts

Convinced of rampant bias on the evening news, Paul Simpson founded the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.

by Thomas Alan Schwartz via The Conversation on July 26, 2018

The Rare Women in the Rare-Book Trade

When most people hear the term rare books, they imagine an old boys’ club of dealers seeking out first editions, mostly by men.

by Diane Mehta via The Paris Review on July 5, 2018

How Our Grandmothers Disappeared Into History

A historian turned novelist ponders the absence of women from America's historical archives.

by Katy Simpson Smith via Zócalo Public Square on June 8, 2018

Examining 20th-Century America’s Obsession With Poor Posture

A new book explores the nation’s now-faded preoccupation with the 'epidemic' of hunched bodies.

by Katherine Unger Baillie via Penn Today on June 7, 2018

Ira Berlin, Transformative Historian of Slavery in America, Dies at 77

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

by Harrison Smith via Washington Post on June 6, 2018

Will Lee as Mr. Hooper

Spotlighting Communism & Hollywood in the Papers of Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper

The actor who played the loveable grocer found his way to Sesame Street after being blacklisted during the Red Scare.

via American Heritage Center Blog on April 18, 2018

collage of disappeared webpages

The Internet Isn't Forever

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.

by Maria Bustillos via Columbia Journalism Review on February 20, 2018

White Americans Fail to Address Their Family Histories

There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine.

by William Horne via The Activist History Review on February 9, 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

The Sugar Tramp

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

by David Singerman on January 10, 2018

Natural History in Two Dimensions

What can making now tell us about the past? Or should the past remain untouched?

by Whitney Barlow Robles via Commonplace on January 1, 2018

How Science May Help Us Smell the Past

Characterizing artifacts’ odors provides insight on history and conservation.

by Carrie Arnold via Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) on December 21, 2017

Snails, Hedgehog Heads and Stale Beer

A peek inside premodern cookbooks.

by Benjamin Breen on December 15, 2017

Illustration of a scene from "As You Like It," from one of the Folger Shakespeare Library's "Elephant Folios."

The Most Amazing Archival Treasures That Were Digitized This Year

Thousands of priceless images, books, documents, and more are now at your fingertips.

by Anika Burgess via Atlas Obscura on December 15, 2017

Future Historians Probably Won't Understand Our Internet, and That's Okay

Archivists are working to document our chaotic, opaque, algorithmically complex world—and in many cases, they simply can’t.

by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on December 6, 2017

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg Is Still Thinking About the Papers He Didn’t Get to Leak

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

by Andrew Rice via Intelligencer on November 28, 2017

Remembering the Freedom Train

In an effort to awaken Americans to their own history, the Truman Administration conceived of a moving museum.

by Ted Widmer via The New Yorker on November 26, 2017

A World in a Box

Harvard digitizes two centuries of colonial history.

by Benjamin Breen on November 15, 2017

Head netting for desert camouflage, 1973.

These Striking Photos Show the Secret, Strange World of Military Research and Development

An obscure archive reveals the science—and art—behind combat culture.

by Rian Dundon via Timeline on November 15, 2017

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