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250th-anniversary merchandise has surged, with an expanding range of commemorative items from novelty souvenirs to widespread retail offerings.

The physical journey of the Declaration of Independence tells its own story. Its imperfections and endurance reflect those of the America it helped create.

The dominance of white for a woman's wedding attire is a relatively modern phenomenon.

The new Obama Presidential Center, in Chicago, is inspiring—but departs from other presidential libraries in a crucial, and risky, way.

With biting satire, Alan Dunn captured how 20th-century architectural trends left everyday Americans astonished, baffled, and enraged.

The explorers’ crossing of the continent is America’s most famous camping trip. What was it all for?

Civil Defense and the Deep South in the 1950s.

A post-Watergate law makes Presidential records government property. The Trump Administration has declared it unconstitutional.

In the first half of the 20th-Century, the Declaration of Independence underwent an innovative preservation process and a lengthy custody dispute.

During the American Revolution, both the British and the patriots fought to keep sensitive papers out of enemy hands.

What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn of the 20th century? Linotype machines, cheap pulp paper, and newly improved postal networks.

A collection of matchbooks from Southern California maps a vanished mid-century commercial corridor, long displaced by fire and time.

George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.

On Wolcott's trailblazing four years of photography with the Farm Security Administration.

Long a marker of gender inequality, women turned pockets into a feminist demand.

Breaking history: A key moment in the Revolution looks different through John Burgoyne’s eyes.

Created in 1897, a discovered film is over two decades older than the term "robot."

A widow's fight against the Freedmen's Bureau.

A brief history of the Belgian Friendship Building.

On the paranormal archive of SORRAT.

The 1826 Fourth of July marked America's 50th anniversary with nationwide celebrations, patriotic art, and reflection amid growing national tensions.

Bell’s and Edison’s inventions turned executives into “dictators.”

New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped his views on the battles to come.

Virtues we now aspire to were once habits people vowed to quit.

Declassified records begin to detail the U.S. negotiating strategy in the historic accord.

From aluminum to plastic, the evolution of artificial Christmas trees reveal our desires for safer, cleaner, “better” nature and modern convenience.

The story of the "battle of the bulge."

For years, one man complicated the official story of who murdered the civil-rights leader. Just before he died in October, he offered a jaw-dropping revelation.

As high school students embraced political activism, adults turned to the authorities to shield their sons and daughters from radical influences.

How a historian identified a Lakota child from a single photograph.