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

Photographer Peter Campbell captured many scenes from the 1939 New York World's Fair in full color, both during the day and at night.

Looking for traces of sexual fantasy in soldiers' letters home.

Piecing back together the forgotten history of Herman Melville's second son.

The U.S. divided into Pacific, Atlantic, Interior and Confederate States.

Private Charles F. Johnson of the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry ponders an unusual celestial phenomenon.

What's still under wraps, and what it might tell us about Lee Harvey Oswald.

Kristine K. Ronan describes her discovery of two Native American statues at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.

A CIA memo shows that US officials considered his execution a crucial victory—but they were mistaken in believing Che’s ideas could be buried along with his body.

Newly discovered footage of the time 20,000 American Nazis descended upon midtown Manhattan.

Claude Lévi-Strauss and the burden of our personal archives.

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

Following WWII, the birth control organization published illustrated pamphlets with authoritative guidance on family planning.

Evidence that the idiom could be 100 years older than was previously thought.

Immigrants eagerly joined the war cause both by joining the military and working in important industry at home.

The shocking power of immersing oneself in another world was all the buzz once before—about 150 years ago.

Is there a special value in archives that are not digitized?

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is taking steps to commemorate enslaved people who worked for his predecessor nearly 200 years ago.

We used to fill our time capsules with fancy stuff. Now we put in junk.

John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.

In the 1930s, park planning was pretty.

Enslaved wet nurses were a valued purchase in the antebellum South.

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

She used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.

In 1097, a Pueblo artist may have etched a rare celestial event into the rock for all of posterity

A Barthesian bristle and the curious power of Walt Whitman’s posthumous eyelids.

Called Art War Relief, members from a group of art societies formed a coalition under the auspices of the American Red Cross.

One famous image of the president features a body that isn't his.

On the occasion of his 250th birthday, the making of our sixth president in his own words.