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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 book about black power lies next to a pair of running shoes, 1969.

A Black Power Method

Interrogating 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
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
John F. Kennedy

Why Is the Establishment Ignoring the Recently Declassified JFK Files?

The documents show how CIA spymaster James Angleton hid Oswald’s movements, hid a secret Israeli liaison, and lied to Congress for decades.
by Harrison Berger via The American Conservative on November 28, 2025
Collage art featuring Dorothy Martin

It’s One of the Most Influential Social Psychology Studies Ever. Was It All a Lie?

A classic book on UFO believers and their “cognitive dissonance” after aliens failed to land is called into question.
by Anna Merlan via Mother Jones on November 25, 2025
President John F. Kennedy with his brother Robert F. Kennedy

What RFK Jr. Didn’t Tell You About the False Flag Operation He Loves to Denounce

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leaves out his father's role in pushing false flag plans for a war with Cuba.
by Ken Hughes via The Conversation on November 24, 2025
Display of "our famous people" at a local museum.

Long Before the Field: Community, Memory, and the Making of Public History

What the institutionalization of "public history" means.
by Raquel Torúa Padilla via Not Even Past on October 20, 2025
Native American activists protesting the former mascot and name of the Washington Commanders.

The Annotated History of a Slur

Digging through dictionary archives to uncover the slowly changing meaning of “redskin.”
by Stefan Fatsis via Defector on October 13, 2025
Efka Pyramiden cigarette papers in a green packaging sleeve made in Nazi Germany.
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Papering Over History

Efka—the German rolling paper company—was a Nazi regime favorite. After World War II, it was refashioned as a darling of the pot-infused counterculture.
by Alexandra M. Lord, Robert M. Ehrenreich via JSTOR Daily on September 24, 2025
A Mr. Nelson collage deisgn, of orange and black and white designs.

The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically

We must see the world as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.
by Francis J. Gavin via Noema on September 11, 2025
Book cover with the title "A Blacklist Education" written on a black and red background.

Legacies of Teacher Persecution and Resistance

Historian Jane Smith understands her childhood differently after discovering that her father had been pushed out of his profession during the Red Scare.
by Joan Wallach Scott via Academe on September 9, 2025
Frank Meyer testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1959.

Frank Meyer’s Path from Devoted Communist to Promoter of Conservative ‘Fusionism’

A detailed, exhausting, and ultimately too-gentle treatment of the midcentury writer and editor, Frank Meyer.
by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on August 26, 2025
An astrology chart by Joan Quiqley.

Hoover Makes Available the Newly Processed Papers of Nancy’s Reagan’s White House Astrologer

How an astrologer's direction steered presidential travel, public appearances, and meetings.
by Jean McElwee Cannon via Hoover Institution on August 1, 2025
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