History Archives

How to Protect Rare Books and Manuscripts From the Ravages of Climate Change

Almost all American archives are at risk from disasters or changing temperatures. Community history will probably be the first to go.

On how politics and fear, rather than the day-to-day risks and realities of life at the U.S.-Mexico border, have historically shaped border policies.

Is a moment of solidarity possible in an age of decentralized media?

White Americans are bound by a false past.

Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth.

For Pi Day, a mathematician breaks down a figure that goes beyond the universal.

To make sense of the current conversation on immigration, we must look to our country's difficult past.

Companies can reach into their archives to reaffirm their culture and demonstrate a differentiating legacy.

Medicine, history, and rare age disorders are reshaping the way researchers view the process of aging, and it may extend lives for decades.

The roots of the holiday, traced from its origins with pagan Celts through its various modern iterations around the world today.