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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 [...] »
Beyond the Textbook

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? [...] »
National Resources

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, 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 Photo, . . . trephining [sic]. . . , 1926, Library of Congress](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/NationalMuseumNH432x240.jpg?itok=rqsMmArM)
Don't let "natural history" scare you away! The museum covers anthropology [...] »
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A family’s oral history intersects with larger events in U.S. history.
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