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

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

Historians, archaeologists and librarians scramble to save precious cultural capital before it can be sold or destroyed by militants

August 7, 2015

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The International Olympic Committee Just Rescued Its Priceless Video Archive

Seven years and 100,000 hours of work later, the IOC’s archive has been digitized and preserved

July 23, 2015

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Archivists Uncover an Unfinished Memoir By Orson Welles

Fragments of “Confessions of a One-Man Band” discovered in a newly-acquired trove of documents

May 29, 2015

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Archivists Are Uncovering Lost Mark Twain Stories

Digital archives reveal Samuel Clemens, struggling journalist

May 11, 2015

Etude 1, 1967- 1968, is a piece of Thermo fax paper with an image that looks like a four-leaf-clover, with four overlapping circles. Each circle has concentric inner circles composed of individual letters of the alphabet.

New Works by Nam June Paik Are Discovered at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

While inventorying the massive archival materials left by the artist, a researcher comes across forgotten works of art

March 23, 2015