Seventeenth-century scholars were horrified by how much ancient knowledge had been lost when the monasteries dispersed.

Deaccessioning old works can be a complicated and fraught process. But even museums have to spring-clean now and then.

In the 1960s, over seventy scientists and graduate students traveled to U.S. outlying islands as part of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program.

Scholarship traces the birth of the archive to natural philosophers like John Aubrey.

Collective memory can be a useful addition to the documentation of history. 

We need a visual literacy to help us negotiate new ways of seeing, but also new ways of accessing, manipulating, and reusing visual content.

Megan Kate Nelson, a historian of Civil War and the American Southwest, is behind the (Un)Catalogued Column for JSTOR Daily.