Postcards
A Postcard from Getaria
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The birthplace of Cristóbal Balenciaga
Mailbag
You Can Study That?
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What could be more satisfying than immersing yourself in the history of something you love?
Field Trip
The Shamrock and the Sham
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though in an idyllic setting, I was poised above a mass grave.
Shorts
Good Queers and Bad Queers
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myths fed back as stereotypes and strawmen to divine some boundary for acceptability
Revive Your Darlings
The Great Leg Show!
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Hot pants served as a sartorial riposte to the fashion industry’s relentless campaign for the midi.
History & Mystery
The Clue in the Old Lace
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Fashion history is rarely as straightforward as Nancy Drew led me to believe.
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.
A Thing Of The Past
The Papier-Mâché Mask
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We can intuitively interact with the history of an artform even when we aren’t explicitly aware of that history.
A Thing Of The Past
The Government Pen
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As a child, I thought it was extremely cool that working for the U.S. government meant that you could get a pen that said “U.S. Government.”
Shorts
This Is The Night
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Performed once a year, the Exsultet features rich descriptions of sights, sounds, scents—and bees.
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.
Features
Sacred Objects
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A medieval relic economy operates in the Star Wars universe—and in the universe of its fans.
Postcards
A Postcard From Washington, D.C.
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Seeing Railway Mail Service badges makes the postal carriers and clerks that I read about in other archives seem more real.
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.
Features
From #TakeEmDown to #TakeEmOn
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She led the movement against Memphis’s Confederate monuments, and now she’s running for mayor. An interview with Tami Sawyer.