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Drawing of a Caribbean sugar plantation.

Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas

A tribal collaborative project that seeks to understand settler colonialism and its legacies through the lens of Indigenous enslavement and unfreedom.

by Linford Fisher via Indigenous Slavery on October 6, 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

Explore the Early Years of Technicolor Film in 40,000 Documents

The Technicolor Online Research Archive has newly digitized documents from 1914 to 1955, chronicling the development of Technicolor film.

by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on August 29, 2017

Cover of pamphlet entitled "Defense is First at Firestone"

Patriotism and Production in World War II Corporate Publications

A Lippincott Library collection shows how, during World War II, companies highlighted their war contributions via annual reports.

by Rayna Andrews via Special Collections Cataloging at Penn on July 5, 2017

Closet Archive

A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space.”

by Shannon Mattern via Places Journal on July 1, 2017

Modern Wars Are a Nightmare for the Army's Official Historians

The researchers compiling the U.S. Army’s accounts of Iraq and Afghanistan have an unprecedented volume of material to sort.

by Adin Dobkin via The Atlantic on June 14, 2017

Screenshot of Wikipedia homepage.

40% of Wikipedia Is Under Threat from Deletionists

"Deletionists" are rapidly removing content from Wikiedpia; often, the lost material is created by those who struggle to be heard.

by Andrea James via BoingBoing on February 16, 2017

Dam from a distance

The Book of the Dead

In Fayette County, West Virginia, expanding the document of disaster.

by Catherine Venable Moore via Oxford American on December 6, 2016

Can Twitter Fit Inside the Library of Congress?

Six years ago, the world’s biggest library decided to archive every single tweet. Turns out that’s pretty hard to do.

by Andrew McGill via The Atlantic on August 4, 2016

Should Prince's Tweets Be in a Museum?

Archivists are figuring out which pieces of artists' digital lives to preserve alongside letters, sketchbooks, and scribbled-on napkins.

by Sonia Weiser via The Atlantic on July 5, 2016

A Black Power Method

A Black Power method moves to destabilize or interrogate dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source.

by N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 15, 2016

A postcard illustrating the Carnegie blast furnaces along the Monongahela River, Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1908-1909.

The Homestead Strike

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

by Franky Abbott via Digital Public Library of America on April 6, 2016

Photograph of CIA Director George Bush and President Gerald R. Ford during a Meeting in the Cabinet Room

The Art of Administration: On Greg Barnhisel’s “Cold War Modernists”

Cold War modernists of the title do not seem to be the painters, sculptors, poets, and novelists who produced the original works.

by Donal Harris via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 2, 2016

Pixelated image of ancient ruins with columns

Raiders of the Lost Web

If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.

by Adrienne LaFrance via The Atlantic on October 14, 2015

Obama standing with his official presidential portrait.

There Goes the Neighborhood

The Obama library lands on Chicago.

by Rick Perlstein via The Baffler on July 1, 2015

People standing around the aftermath of a train accident in 1926.

A Roomful of Death and Destruction

The room at One Police Plaza, jammed to the ceiling with filing cabinets and boxes, and reeking of vinegar, held about 180,000 images ranging from 1914 to 1972.

by Lucy Sante via New York Review of Books on June 22, 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

Server for the Internet Archive.

Can the Internet be Archived?

The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its past.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on January 26, 2015

1907 illustration depicting a fireman rescuing a woman from the roof of a house

The History of the Ordinary

An early 20th-century scrapbook put together by Company 62 of the New York City Fire Department.

by Laura Bang, Ruth Martin via The Public Domain Review on June 7, 2014

Here's How Memes Went Viral - In the 1800s

The Infectious Texts project is the compilation of 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from the Library of Congress.

by Greg Miller via Wired on November 4, 2013

Young boy holding the Communist sickle and hammer, in black and white

Revisions in Red

A scholar wrestles with the legacy of her grandfather, onetime leader of America’s Communist Party.

by Laura Browder via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 19, 2012

The Pirates’ Ruse, early 19th century engraving, depicting people standing on deck in view of another ship pretend everything is normal, while armed pirates hide out of view of a nearby American vessel.

The Poetics of History from Below

All good storytellers tell a big story within a little story, and so do all good historians.

by Marcus Rediker via Perspectives on History on September 1, 2010

Slave Voyages

This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them.

via Emory Libraries And Information Technology on December 15, 2008

Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture by Molly A. Schneider. University of Texas Press. 238 pages.

The Myth America Show

The anthology drama provided a venue for discourses on American national identity during the massive cultural, economic, and political changes occurring at midcentury.

by Josie Torres Barth via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 13, 2024

John Dudley Sargent standing next to Edith Sargent.

Something We Were Never Meant to See

Finding a story in the ways Robert Ray Hamilton, John Dudley Sargent, and Edith Sargent weren’t quite forgotten.

by Maura Jane Farrelly via HNN on July 9, 2024

A drilling crew in the Hawk's Nest Tunnel.

On Raymond Thompson’s “Appalachian Ghost”

Black miners were intentionally erased from the record of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster. A new book reinserts them into the narrative.

by Jody DiPerna via Belt Magazine on June 20, 2024

1905 Sanborn insurance map of San Francisco, damaged by the fires after the 1906 earthquake.

From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Created for US insurance firms during devastating fires across the 19th and 20th centuries, the Sanborn maps blaze with detail the aspects of American cities.

by Tobiah Black via The Public Domain Review on June 12, 2024

St. Basil's Cathedral spire about to pierce the world like a balloon.

Why Would Anyone Want to Run the World?

The warnings in Cold War history.

by John Lewis Gaddis via Foreign Affairs on June 7, 2024

Zdeněk Koubek running.

Human Velocity

“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” upends long-held assumptions about trans people’s participation in sports.

by Michael Waters, Frankie de la Cretaz via The Baffler on June 7, 2024

Detail from "the Book of Negroes," listing Arthur Bowler and his family, 1783.

Eight Clues

Recovering a life in fragments, Arthur Bowler in slavery and freedom.

by Jane Lancaster via Journal of the American Revolution on June 6, 2024

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