#united-states-history — Public Fediverse posts

KNSI: The controversies surrounding the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. “In case you haven’t heard the very bully news, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library—which opens on July 4 in the tiny town of Medora, North Dakota—is a stunning architectural, archival, and multimedia achievement, a world-class memorial to a president who became the first great champion of […]

Watermark Out News: Stonewall National Monument, sites tied to equality join list of America’s most endangered historic places. “The Stonewall National Monument, the President’s House Site and the Women’s Rights National Historic Park are among 11 sites on this year’s annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States compiled by the National Trust for Historic […]

Library of Congress Blog: New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2026. “Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights.” To me the highlight of the new […]

Mississippi Today: KKK cache is available to the public at Archives and History. “The public can now get a glimpse of 1960s Ku Klux Klan materials, including charters and lists of dues-paying Mississippi Klansmen, through collections housed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The department announced Wednesday that the materials can be seen in its research library in downtown […]

National Security Archive: Cuba: Declassified Records on the Brothers to the Rescue Shootdown. “On Eve of Raul Castro Indictment, Archive Posts Declassified FAA Documents

on Events Leading to Shootdown of Cuban Exile Planes”

Library of Congress: By the People Webinar: Volunteer to Transcribe the American Revolution in Context. “Commemorate the 250th birthday of the United States through service! Join us for a webinar on Thursday, June 4, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT to learn about The American Revolution in Context, a project of the Library of Congress volunteer transcription program, By the People. Registration is […]

Harvard: Harvard releases information on 1,613 enslaved individuals. “Harvard has published a database identifying 1,613 people who were enslaved by University leaders, faculty, or staff or who labored on campus as enslaved individuals between 1636 and 1865.”

Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]

UCLA: ‘Our history is your history’: Multimedia textbook brings Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences to the forefront. “Written by more than 100 leading scholars, journalists, organizers and community historians, and featuring an extensive archive of videos, photographs, audio clips, poems and interviews, plus ready-to-use lesson plans for students in high school and college, it […]

Library of Congress: Travel America: Mapping the Highsmith Photograph Archive. “A new interactive web map is opening the door to fascinating travels across America with the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. After driving along America’s highways and byways for some 50 years, Carol has reached her goal of documenting each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. More than 70,000 […]

Library of Congress: Preserving the 175,000 FSA photographs, one at a time. “Here we are in the digital darkroom of the Prints and Photographs Division, where a 16-year-long effort to digitize in high resolution the 175,000 or so Farm Security Administration photographs of the country in the 1930s and ’40s is coming to an end, perhaps by the end of this year. It’s kind of a big deal.”

Google Blog: Celebrating America’s 250th on Google Arts & Culture. “As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, we are announcing a unique collaboration between the White House Task Force 250, the National Archives, the National Park Service and Google Arts & Culture…. With the launch of Making of the Nation – America at 250, we are surfacing the archives of our […]

Google Blog: Check out the new ways to explore Route 66 on Google Maps.. “Route 66 is one of the most iconic highways in the U.S., stretching 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica. In celebration of its 100th anniversary, we’re rolling out two new ways to help you explore it, virtually or IRL.”

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’. “Seventy years ago, residents of Monticello gathered to mark their last Memorial Day in their small, agricultural town. The spring gathering was always a chance for families and old friends to gather in community. By the time rains came the following year, 1957, Monticello was gone.”

Smithsonian: New Smithsonian Online Exhibition Celebrates the Art and Skill of Traditional Trades. “The Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage today launched ‘Built by Hand: Skilled Artisans in the Traditional Trades,’ a new online exhibition that highlights the creativity, knowledge and experiences of skilled artisans and building trades. The exhibition features in depth […]

National Security Archive: Cuba: The Bay of Pigs Invasion 65 Years Later. “In the wake of the failed CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion, President John F. Kennedy considered reconfiguring and even dismantling the intelligence agency, according to documents posted by the National Security Archive on the 65th anniversary of the paramilitary assault on Cuba.”

Ms. Magazine: A Public Syllabus on Feminist Resistance Across U.S. History: Books, Films, Archives and Tools to Rethink America’s Origins. “The multimedia syllabus curated below spans the Revolutionary era and the long afterlife of feminist resistance—from the 19th century to the present. It includes works by series authors, books and articles, podcasts, films and television, primary-source […]

New-to-me, from Maps Mania: The Ancestry Dot Map of America. “Like its predecessor, the Ancestry Dot Map uses colored dots scattered across the landscape of the United States. But instead of visualizing race at the individual level, each dot here represents reported ancestries, drawn from the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates (2024).”

North Carolina Department of Natural & Cultural Resources: State Archives to Host virtual program on New Americans in North Carolina. “As part of America 250 NC’s ‘When Are We US?’ theme, State Archives’ staff will explore records detailing various ethnic groups coming to North Carolina from the late 19th century to the present. The State Archives is part of the N.C. Department of Natural and […]

Amistad Research Center: Center Launches Digital Collection on Amistad Case. “This digital collection is comprised of correspondence, dating from 1839-1841, by abolitionists, pro-slavery advocates, government officials, and the Amistad Africans themselves, related to the development of efforts to provide legal assistance to the Africans.”

Military.com: American Battle Monuments Commission Opens Online Archive of America’s First Combat Aviators. “The American Battle Monuments Commission last week launched its Online Catalog, a searchable digital collection that includes historic photographs, architectural blueprints, furniture, fine art and architectural molds drawn from the agency’s holdings. The date marked the anniversary of […]

William & Mary: Students digitize Black women’s history, one diary at a time. “[Mia] Hunt is one of a dozen W&M students contributing to the Black Women’s Diaries Project (BWDP), a multi‑year effort led by [Professor Jennifer] Putzi to transcribe, annotate and digitally encode the diaries of 19th‑ and early 20th‑century African American women. The project will debut online in October […]

Densho: Building the Densho Digital Repository: Three Decades of Digital Preservation. “How did Densho’s digital archives begin, and how have they evolved over nearly three decades? Densho Archives Director Caitlin Oiye Coon traces the journey from the creation of Densho’s first ‘Digital Archive’ in 1998 to today’s ‘Densho Digital Repository,’ highlighting the people, technologies, and […]

The American Revolution Institute: Introducing Our New Digital Archives and Library Catalog. “In February, we reached a major milestone: the American Revolution Institute’s new digital archive and library collections platform is now live. This launch matters because the Institute’s headquarters is home to one of the world’s greatest collections of books and manuscripts on the history of […]

Smithsonian: Smithsonian Launches Regional Collaboratives, a National Initiative To Strengthen Community Partnerships Across the Country. “The Smithsonian will work alongside local partners to align expertise, collections, research and educational resources to create projects that span from traveling exhibitions, conservation training and research partnerships, to civic education and youth […]

Reuters: Leaked Interior Department database reveals US plans to revise historical information. “An internal government database first reported ​by the Washington Post and posted on two public websites on Monday revealed the scope of the Trump administration’s effort to revise or remove information on African-American history, LGBT rights, climate change and other topics at hundreds of […]

Flager College: Flagler College’s Ottoman Greeks of the US Digital History Project Launches Interactive Map of Early 20th Century Migration . “The interactive map includes five dynamic renders and a statistical analysis of migrants’ places of birth, last residence in the Ottoman Empire, port of embarkation, and destination in the United States. The fifth render, titled The Journey, […]

Columbia University: Complete Obama Presidency Oral History Archive Is Now Available. “Today, just 10 years after President Barack Obama left office, Columbia University’s Incite Institute opens the full Obama Presidency Oral History archive to the public. This groundbreaking digital archive offers everyone—students, researchers, journalists, and simply the curious—a trove of material for […]

Lafayette College: Largest known collection of Lafayette/Washington letters now available digitally . “After years of meticulous work, Special Collections & College Archives has completed the digitization of 201 letters written by the Marquis de Lafayette to George Washington between 1777 and 1792, one of the most important quill-pal relationships from early America. The digital collection can […]