History isn’t just written in books — it’s buried in the artifacts we’ve lost. Across centuries, priceless treasures, sacred relics, and scientific wonders have vanished without a trace, swallowed by ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative expands with three-dimensional renderings of significant pieces—most of which are free to download.

An umbrella from early 20 th century Japan. A wine glass from Belgium, circa 1825. Three teapots: one from early 20 th century China, one from late 19 th century England and one from late 19 th ...

We often learn about the past visually — through oil paintings and sepia photographs, books and buildings, artifacts displayed behind glass. And sometimes we get to touch historical objects or listen ...

History is written with great deeds, but sometimes also with small, everyday objects. The latter, once involved in the accomplishment of historic deeds, become historic themselves and are erected as ...

Letters in cursive Catalan, colorful cartoons, feminist magazines, propaganda posters that call for women to “smash” fascism. These objects, all nearly a century old, are part of the Beinecke Rare ...

Using the Mbari architecture of the Owerri-Igbo of eastern Nigeria as a starting point, this article addresses the different forms and meaning the objects take on in different historical periods and ...

Type into your search engine the words “Sarasota County History Center Archives Catalog,” and you’ll get more than 15,000 results. Among all the items the archives houses are hundreds of documents ...

While hundreds of Texans gathered in November to celebrate the much-anticipated reopening of the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site after a two-year, $54 million renovation, Amanda Cagle was ...

From the towering presence of a Quebec diamond point armoire to the delicate beauty of a Grenfell rug, the scale of this collection reflects a lifetime of passionate hunting for the soul of Canada” — ...