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Photo of a man lying face down on a bed under a coat, and a sad woman sitting in a chair next to him. There is a hole punched out of the center of the photo.

The Kept and the Killed

Of the 270,000 photos commissioned to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed.” Explore the hole-punched archive and the void at its center.

by Erica X. Eisen via The Public Domain Review on January 26, 2022

Alabama’s Capitol Is a Crime Scene. The Cover-up Has Lasted 120 Years.

How more than a century of whitewashed history poisons Alabama today.

by Kyle Whitmire via al.com on January 12, 2022

Front page of the Saturday Evening Post

The Persistence of the Saturday Evening Post

When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of communities. There was no sense of nation or unity.

by Amanda Darrach via CJR on November 9, 2021

Painting of British soldiers surrendering their arms to George Washington.

The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington's Slave Roundup

History books remember Yorktown as a "victory for the right of self-determination." But the battle guaranteed slavery for nearly another century.

by Gregory Urwin via Journal of the American Revolution on October 19, 2021

Mapping the Movimiento

Places and people in the struggle for Mexican American Civil Rights in San Antonio.

via ArcGIS StoryMaps on October 15, 2021

Viking statues with a map background

Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery

New technical analysis dates Yale's Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested.

by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry via Smithsonian on September 27, 2021

Portrait of Robert Carter III

Like Washington and Jefferson, He Championed Liberty. Unlike the Founders, He Freed his Slaves

The little-known story of Robert Carter III.

by Eliot C. McLaughlin via CNN on September 5, 2021

'Get Out Now' – Inside the White House on 9/11, According to the Staffers Who Were There

A top White House aide recounts her experiences that day.

by Anita McBride via The Conversation on September 2, 2021

Newspaper and a black background and the words "Printing Hate"

Printing Hate

How white-owned newspapers incited racial terror in America.

via Howard Center For Investigative Journalism on September 1, 2021

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting on shipboard in 1941 with officers in the background.

Revisiting Roosevelt and Churchill's 'Atlantic Charter'

Can the partnership born on a maritime U.S.-U.K. summit still protect democracy?

by Paul Kennedy via The Wall Street Journal on August 27, 2021

Red binder pulled from row of blue binders

Serendipity in the Archives

Or, a lost freedom story I found while looking for something else.

by Marcus Rediker via Public Seminar on August 25, 2021

President Obama in the Oval Office.

Pictures at a Restoration

On Pete Souza’s Obama.

by Blair McClendon via n+1 on August 10, 2021

Soldier walking through barracks

Army to Memorialize Black Soldier Lynched on Georgia Base 80 Years Ago

Pvt. Felix Hall’s killers were never brought to justice.

by Alexa Mills via Washington Post on August 1, 2021

A woman posing for a picture with a dead animal

A Woman’s Intimate Record of Wyoming in the Early Twentieth Century

Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some twenty-four thousand negatives documenting life in her small town.

by Sarah Blackwood via The New Yorker on July 18, 2021

A newspaper drawing of the Nat Turner Rebellion.

Looking for Nat Turner

A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.

by Alberto Toscano via Boston Review on June 29, 2021

The Borden family in 1923

The Dust of Previous Travel

After inheriting a box of documents from her grandfather, Marta Olmos learns more about her family's history.

by Marta Olmos via Contingent on June 27, 2021

107th U.S. Colored Troops posing for a picture

People, Not “Voices” or “Bodies,” Make History

We need to do far more than “give voice to the voiceless" to win justice.

by Dale Kretz via Jacobin on June 18, 2021

An embroidered sack that says "My great grandmother Rose, mother of Ashley gave her this sack when, she was sold at age 9 in South Carolina, it held a tattered dress 3 handfulls of pecans a braid of Rose's hair. Told her it be filled with my Love always, she never saw her again, Ashley is my grandmother, Ruth Middleton 1921

To Find the History of African American Women, Look to Their Handiwork

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic on June 8, 2021

Photograph of Mabel Loomis Todd with a child

Bitchy Little Spinster

Emily Dickinson and the woman in her orbit.

by Joanne O'Leary via London Review of Books on June 3, 2021

Greenwood in ruins after the Tulsa Race Massacre

The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre

Two pioneering Black writers have not received the recognition they deserve for chronicling one of the country’s gravest crimes.

by Victor Luckerson via The New Yorker on May 28, 2021

Newspapers

Skewed View of Tulsa Race Massacre Started on Day 1 With 'The Story That Set Tulsa Ablaze'

A Tulsa Tribune newspaper story of an alleged assault attempt helped instigate the Tulsa Race Massacre, leaving hundreds dead along Black Wall Street.

by Dave Cathey via The Oklahoman on May 26, 2021

The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater, Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized

An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.

by Jane Mayer via The New Yorker on May 6, 2021

A Slavers of New York sticker pasted over a Bergen Street subway sign.

Mapping the History of Slavery in New York

A group of activists is calling attention to the legacy of slavery encoded in the names of New York City’s streets and neighborhoods.

by Ada Reso, Maria Robles, Elsa Eli Waithe, Francesca Johanson via Guernica on April 21, 2021

A Black family in Savannah, GA.

The “Families’ Cause” in the Post-Civil War Era

While focusing on refuting the Lost Cause narrative, many historians forget to memorialize Black Americans in the post Civil War period.

by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. via Black Perspectives on March 24, 2021

Lady Bird Johnson looking through stack of papers at a desk

The Lost Story of Lady Bird

Why do most chroniclers of LBJ’s presidency miss the centrality and influence of the first lady?

by Julia E. Sweig via The Atlantic on March 15, 2021

Mary Beard and the Beginning of Women's History

She was one half of a powerhouse academic couple and an influential historian in her own right. But she's still often overlooked.

by Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on March 15, 2021

Collage of a photograph of a boy over a photo of Castro and his entourage.

My Brother’s Keeper

Early in the Cuban Revolution, my mother made a consequential decision.

by Ada Ferrer via The New Yorker on February 18, 2021

Indian Congress installation

The Historic Indian Congress is Reunited in Omaha by Artist Wendy Red Star

The Apsáalooke artist has created a major new installation for her solo show at the Joslyn Art Museum using photographs of the 500 delegates taken in 1898.

by Karen Chernick via The Art Newspaper on February 1, 2021

Piles of boxes.

Historians Having to Tape Together Records That Trump Tore Up

Implications for public record and legal proceedings after administration seized or destroyed papers, notes and other information.

via The Guardian on January 17, 2021

Lithograph of William Costin.

The Mount Vernon Slave Who Made Good: The Mystery of William Costin

David O. Stewart discusses the relationship between William Costin and the Washington bloodline.

by David O. Stewart via Journal of the American Revolution on December 22, 2020

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