“A picture is worth a thousand words”—a phrase most of us have heard before. And for a reason. Photographs can capture loads of information in just a split second and immortalize it for years to come.

Too many people don’t know or care about our history. This isn’t a particularly new issue, as even in 1943, The New York Times reported that college students showed “a striking ignorance of even the ...

This text explores a collection of unusual and fascinating historical photographs, each with an incredible story hidden ...

Volunteer John Pierce compares original images to Google Earth using a light table to identify the coordinates for the centerpoint of each historical image. (Photo courtesy UM News Service) This 1937 ...

Image credits: historicalpics1 Levenick tells us her passion for old photos, heirlooms and keepsakes was sparked as a child, and runs deep. "I was captivated by family history as a young girl when my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. photos from the Arresting Images collection presented by Fugitive Materials In the 1980s and early ’90s, New York served as an ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than two dozen historic prints that depict a slice of Native American life and culture on the Upper Missouri River nearly 200 years ago will soon be more accessible to the ...

In the 1860s and 1870s, only a handful of Black residents lived in Oregon. Now, newly digitized photographs provide a rare and unique view into some of their lives. The two collections feature ...

Jamel Shabazz, “East Flatbush 1982” (1982) (all images via Brooklyn Visual Heritage) History nerds and Brooklynophiles, rejoice! The Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Brooklyn ...

For New York-based photography collector Patrick Montgomery, vacationing in the Caribbean always included a stop at the local historical societies and museums, but he was surprised by how very few of ...