What Came Before the American Suburb?

Hofstra University’s historic photographs capture Hempstead’s shops and streets before postwar development transformed Long Island.
Blue Embroidered Panties from the 1930s courtesy University of Wyoming

A Brief History of Women’s Underwear

The University of Wyoming’s Historic Clothing Collection offers a revealing look beneath the fashions of the past.
Wharf District Parks: Aerial view of the section running longways from East India Row to High Street. Click on the image to take a closer look.

How the Big Dig Changed Boston’s Landscape

Created after the Big Dig, the Rose Kennedy Greenway shows how cities attempt to heal the scars of highway construction.

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration

An archive of recorded interviews captures how ordinary people experienced one of the defining chapters of American history.

Rediscovering The Jewish Gazette

A rare archive reveals how Ireland’s Jewish community navigated identity, culture, and rising antisemitism in the 1930s.
Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.42478893

Rollerena: New York’s Fairy Godmother

A newly digitized archive traces a roller-skating queer icon from Pride marches and discos to AIDS activism.

Inside the Newspapers of Iran’s Revolution

An expansive digital archive captures how journalists, satirists, and tabloids documented revolutionary Iran in real time.

Preserving the Art of Ed Aulerich-Sugai

An artist’s work is traced through memory, stewardship, and decades of care.
The Ladies Literary Club in 1951

The Intimate Memorials of a Ladies Literary Club

These remembrances reveal a century of women’s friendships in one Midwestern literary club.

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.