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David Bowie's 80,000-Item Archive Will Go on Display
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is building a new venue dedicated to the artist
New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion's Letters, Drafts and Notes
The archive includes 240 linear feet of papers from Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne
Toni Morrison's Rarely Seen Papers Will Go on View at Princeton
The university is planning a months-long series of exhibitions, programs and performances
National Archives Releases Thousands of Kennedy Assassination Files
Over 97 percent of documents related to the event are now publicly available
See Inside the Rarely Seen and Newly Reimagined CIA Museum
Off-limits to all but a few in-person visitors, the museum is starting to welcome the public, online at least
This Rap Documentarian's Latest Subject? Louis Armstrong
Sacha Jenkins tells the jazz musician's story through rarely-seen archival footage and letters
The Forgotten Sisters Who Pioneered the Historical Novel
Jane and Anna Maria Porter ruled Britain's literary scene—until male imitators wrote them out of the story
In Thousands of Recordings, Jim Metzner Collected Sounds From Around the World
The Library of Congress has acquired the prolific radio producer's full body of work
Archive of Ernest Hemingway Writings, Photos Opens to the Public for the First Time
Privately owned for decades, the materials include a short story featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald, personal effects and rough drafts
The Remarkable Effort to Locate America's Lost Patents
An 1836 blaze destroyed thousands of records that catalogued the young nation's ingenuity, but recent discoveries indicate that originals may still exist
Listen to a Lost Tape by a 23-Year-Old Lou Reed
A new album presents the earliest-known recordings of "Heroin," "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "Pale Blue Eyes"
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Whose Database Identified Thousands of Enslaved Laborers, Has Died at 93
Searching through forgotten records, she collected data on more than 100,000 individuals
Have Scholars Finally Identified the Mysterious Somerton Man?
New DNA analysis suggests a body found on a beach in Australia in 1948 belongs to Carl Webb, an electrical engineer from Melbourne
From Lists to Love Letters, What Do People Leave Behind in Library Books?
A California librarian assembles forgotten objects in a heartwarming digital archive
Kentucky Floods Damage Irreplaceable Appalachian Archives
Appalshop, a cultural center in Whitesburg, Kentucky, is still assessing damage from the historic floods
How One Historian Located Liberia’s Elusive Founding Document
The piece of paper went missing for nearly 200 years, leaving some scholars to question whether it even existed
Thousands of Andrew Wyeth Paintings Have Never Been Seen by the Public—Until Now
A new arrangement will make 7,000 of the American realist's works available to museums and researchers
Holocaust Survivors Ask Israel Museum to Return One-of-a-Kind Haggadah
Their lawsuit claims the Passover book was stolen, then purchased under dubious circumstances
Hear an A.I.-Generated Andy Warhol 'Read' His Diary to You in New Documentary
An new Netflix television series employs artificial intelligence to recreate the voice of the Pop Star icon
You Can Now Explore Marcel Duchamp's Personal Papers Online
A new free portal unites three archives in one virtual space, offering an unprecedented look into the artist's life and work
