How Julia Skinner Does History
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I want to help people see themselves as a bridge between the past and the future.
Reviews
A Place for Berlinguer
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Enrico Berlinguer led the Italian Communist Party at the height of its power. A new exhibit at the Mattatoio grapples with his legacy.
Field Trip
Beyond The Gates
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As I descended into the basement I wondered if copal would ever have a chance to ascend.
Artworks Are Artifacts Too
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Art history research can occasionally fall into the trap of viewing everything through a digital screen.
Field Trip
Lost and Found in Bamberg
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For a minute I stood listening to the 9 a.m. bells, breathing deep sighs of relief.
Field Trip
No Gloves Required
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Historians are well aware that a good old map invites curiosity and connection.
How I Do History
How Sara Georgini Does History
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I learned that I like to edit in the mornings, when I’m a little less caffeinated and a lot more ruthless with the text.
Field Trip
Palace Intrigue
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Perhaps we can enjoy the Baron’s palace without having to apotheosize him.
Mailbag
Why Do Archivists Get Rid Of Things (And Enjoy It)?
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Just because something is cool doesn’t mean it belongs in an archive.
Field Trip
Edward Guimont’s “From Outer Space”
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The Hills’ aliens wore clothing and spoke English—albeit with an unspecified “foreign accent.”
Features
The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part II
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What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?
Features
The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part I
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What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?
Field Trip
Working at the NMML
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Two archivists share what it’s like at one of India’s largest archives.
Field Trip
My Trips to Vsetín
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I’m usually the first visitor to arrive, and there are never more than two others at the reading room at any time.
Postcards
A Postcard from Lubbock, TX
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I sometimes feel guilty about how much fun I have researching storm chasers.
How I Do History
How Allison Horrocks Does History
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“. . . if a wide brimmed Stetson gets us going, I’m content to start there.”
How I Do History
How Steven D. Booth Does History
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“Archival work involves building relationships.”
Shorts
A Special Memorialized State
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Facebook was assigning me a place in the past, a place for the dead.
Shorts
The Great History of Small Things
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If I’m being honest, Dan was probably my best friend all those early years in Newtown.
Shorts
The Committee to Keep Dick Tasting
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Hi, any chance you might have sent Richard Nixon a dick joke fifty years ago?
Features
The Brink of Erasure
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The impending demolition of the National Archives Annexe is a crisis, not just for the study of history, but for Indian democracy.
Features
Conspiracy to Commit Sodomy
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Within the longer history of gay spaces and gay porn, eBay’s policing of “adult materials” is nothing new.
Field Trip
The Desert Keeps Receipts
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We are immersed in a landscape of risk, a damaged place that damages in return.
Field Trip
The Magician In The Castle
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This museum riled illusionists worldwide when its exhibit dared to reveal Houdini’s secrets.
Field Trip
How Camille Bethune-Brown Does History
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A chance internship helped Camille Bethune-Brown find her career.
Features
History Now
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How is the pandemic shaping the work of history and the lives of those who do that work?
Field Trip
Catholic Library, Muslim Books
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans in Cairo collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works rarely found in other libraries.
Archives & Museums
How Jennifer Garcon Does History
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“There’s so much experimentation and innovation happening in libraries” and Jennifer Garcon is right in the thick of it.
Field Trip
When John Brown’s Body Is Wax
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What better place to think about authenticity than a wax museum?
Field Trip
How Priya Chhaya Does History
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Even after 13 years working at the National Trust for Historical Preservation, “there isn’t really a typical day of work for me.”
Field Trip
How Nick Hurley Does History
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The second in a series on how historians—especially contingent historians and those employed outside of tenure-track academia—do the work of history.
Field Trip
Archiving Danville
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The mental institution had a lot of old volumes stored in a conference room, but they were behind locked cabinet doors and no one knew exactly what was there.
Field Trip
A Most Unique Museum
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From waste containment during the Black Death to a toilet that cost $19 million, the museum is impressively comprehensive.
Reviews
The Women Who Showed Us Life
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Over its four-decade run, LIFE Magazine had 105 staff photographers. Six of them were women.
Features
All the Presidents’ Librarians
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Despite being spied on and intimidated during my time in Yorba Linda, I still think presidential libraries are too important for historians to wash their hands of them.
Field Trip
The Archive after the Revolution
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They meant to remake the world, and they left quite the paper trail.
Mailbag
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
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Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
Shorts
I Am A Historian I Make Exhibits
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Who are museum exhibits for, and what difference does that make?