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Basta Ya! (Enough!) was a community bilingual newspaper published in San Francisco, California from 1969 to about 1973.

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Read Almost 150 Years’ Worth of Mexican-American Journalism

History is in the headlines at the Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press Collection

April 19, 2016

During World War II, Anne O’Hare McCormick wrote an editorial in the New York Times that urged people to pay attention to Hungary's Jews.

You can help historians learn how newspapers in the U.S. documented the persecution of European Jews

April 11, 2016

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Three Surprising Finds from the New Alan Lomax Archive

A new online database shares more than 17,000 recordings from the folk music archivist

April 5, 2016

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This Transgender Archive’s Oldest Artifacts Tell a Story of Courage and Community

The Digital Transgender Archive was born out of two researchers’ frustration with finding materials by and about transgender people

March 29, 2016

Walt Whitman spent much of the Civil War in hospitals, cheering up wounded soldiers and writing letters on their behalf.

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A Rare Walt Whitman Letter Was Found in the National Archives

The poet wrote the letter on behalf of a dying soldier

March 11, 2016

This 1956 poster is just one of thousands of items of Rosa Parks' personal collection now digitized by the Library of Congress.

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Rosa Parks’ Papers Are Now Online

Read about everything from her meditations on the Civil Rights Movement to her recipe for “featherlite” peanut butter pancakes

February 26, 2016

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A German Composer Uncovered a Collaboration Between Mozart and Salieri

Their epic rivalry might not have been all that

February 16, 2016

The mausoleum of Cyrus in a cyanotype from a glass plate negative from the papers of Ernst Herzfeld.

How a German Archaeologist Rediscovered in Iran the Tomb of Cyrus

Lost for centuries, the royal capital of the Achaemenid Empire was finally confirmed by Ernst Herzfeld

February 16, 2016

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This Unfinished Film Highlights the Daily Lives of Black Americans in the 1960s

‘The American Negro’ shares stories of black surgeons, mothers and workers

February 15, 2016

Students pledged to speak only Latin, Greek or Hebrew in each other's company in this 1712 note.

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Read About Drama, Politics, Breakfast in These Newly Digitized Colonial Documents

An ambitious Harvard University project brings history to life, archiving nearly half a million documents online

February 3, 2016

Chuck Brown, known as the grandfather of go-go, died in 2012. Now, a go-go archive is being assembled in his honor.

Librarians are calling for the preservation of Washington, D.C.’s iconic musical genre

January 22, 2016

"Take care of your book — it is the true companion in campaigns and in peaceful work," urges one poster found in the New York Public Library's Russian Civil War poster collection.

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The New York Public Library Just Made More Than 180,000 Items Available Online

Instant gratification for curious minds

January 7, 2016

Future generations will know how Parisians responded to attacks in their city

December 23, 2015

Logs like this one are being digitized in museums all over New England and used to help scientists understand climate change.

A new crowdsourcing project lets amateur enthusiasts contribute, too

December 17, 2015

"History will be kind to me," wrote Winston Churchill, "for I intend to write it myself."

Churchill’s papers join the ranks of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Anne Frank’s diary and the Magna Carta

November 30, 2015

Detail from the cover of the 1948 Green Book, a guidebook for black travelers.

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A Black American’s Guide to Travel In the Jim Crow Era

For decades, The Green Book was the black traveler’s lifeline

November 3, 2015

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The Origins of the King James Bible

A handwritten draft of the world’s most famous bible has been discovered in England

October 16, 2015

As spores are found in the stacks, it’s time to battle a fuzzy foe

September 29, 2015

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Preserving Old Computer Games Is Harder Than it Seems

There’s an art and a science to resurrecting now-defunct PC games

September 21, 2015

Don Herbert was "Mr. Wizard," an educator who loved spectacle as much as he loved science.

Meet Mr. Wizard, Television’s Original Science Guy

In the 1950s and 1960s, Don Herbert broadcast some of the most mesmerizing, and kooky, science experiments from his garage

August 26, 2015