What role did Brooklyn play in the War Between the States?
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More than 12,000 stereoscopic photographs depict life in New York, New [...] »
Explore 19th-century life through newspaper articles from the 1870s.
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Thanksgiving—how much do you know about the history of this popular holiday [...] »
Human history affects more than human beings.
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How do we relate to national memorials? Photographs can show us how we want [...] »
Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern [...] »
Was colonial trade really triangular? What kinds of work did colonists do, [...] »
Did Northerners all respond the same way to Brown's infamous raid? [...] »
Is your grandfather more likely to be working now than he would have been in [...] »
See our history come to life within the expansive exhibits and educational [...] »
![Photo, . . . trephining [sic]. . . , 1926, Library of Congress](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/NationalMuseumNH432x240.jpg?itok=rqsMmArM "Photo, The crude method of trephining [sic] with the sharpened edge of a stone practiced by peoples living in Peru some 500 or 600 years ago is revealed by the skulls at the National Museum, 1926, Library of Congress")
Don't let "natural history" scare you away! The museum covers anthropology [...] »
A family’s oral history intersects with larger events in U.S. history.
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