Features

Here you can explore our archive of long form pieces, written by expert historians. In these features, they explain where they found their ideas, how they crafted their stories, what new discoveries they have made and arguments they have proposed.

Life and Death on the Eastern Front post image

Life and Death on the Eastern Front

Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Stewart Spring share rare colour photographs from the Second World War

A Very American Santa Claus post image

A Very American Santa Claus

Emily Kern traces the provenance of a modern folk hero

The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 2) – Storming Marye's Heights post image

The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 2) – Storming Marye's Heights

After the amphibious assault by the Union army two days prior, both armies, unknowing of the carnage to come, prepared for battle

The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 1) – Crossing the Rappahannock post image

The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 1) – Crossing the Rappahannock

Illustrated eyewitness accounts of the Union's amphibious assault of Fredericksburg on Thursday, December 11th, 1862

1963: TWA Flight Center post image

1963: TWA Flight Center

An iconic, innovative 1960s airport terminal hailed as a critically-acclaimed architectural masterpiece

Greene County Fair, 1941 post image

Greene County Fair, 1941

Hidden gems from the public archives of America

A Public Domain Halloween post image

A Public Domain Halloween

Hidden gems from the public archives of America

Victorians Re-Dressed post image

Victorians Re-Dressed

Emily Sharmer presents an alternative glimpse into Victorian era fashion

The [Untitled Photo] Series: Suburbia post image

The [Untitled Photo] Series: Suburbia

Hidden gems from the public archives of America

Warped Portraits of the 1930s post image

Warped Portraits of the 1930s

Weird headshots from the American Federal Theatre Project