Rediscovering The Jewish Gazette
A rare archive reveals how Ireland’s Jewish community navigated identity, culture, and rising antisemitism in the 1930s.
The Atlas Behind the Revolution
While George Washington struggled to obtain reliable maps, British readers could consult this remarkable 1776 atlas.
Inside the Newspapers of Iran’s Revolution
An expansive digital archive captures how journalists, satirists, and tabloids documented revolutionary Iran in real time.
The Intimate Memorials of a Ladies Literary Club
These remembrances reveal a century of women’s friendships in one Midwestern literary club.
William Hodges and the Art of Empire
How a traveling landscape painter helped create a homogeneous vision of the British Empire.
Malibu in Matchbooks: Clues to a Lost Coast
A collection of matchbooks from Southern California maps a vanished mid-century commercial corridor, long displaced by fire and time.
Building Brasília
A twentieth-century experiment in urban planning promised progress—but carried immense financial and human costs.
How America’s Industrial Elite Built Their Own Palaces
Historic photographs capture Cleveland’s Millionaires’ Row, where Gilded Age wealth met revival-style splendor.
H. H. Richardson and the Making of an American Romanesque
Historical photographs help trace the emergence of Richardsonian Romanesque and its lasting influence on American architecture.
The Space Race’s Forgotten Theme Park
Preserved documents and photographs trace the rise and fall of an ambitious space-themed park born of 1960s Space Race optimism.