
It was just a portrait of a noble family, but one hidden detail exposed their dark secret. The photograph had been stored in a climate…

Why researchers were shocked when they zoomed into the oldest sister’s hand in this 1895 portrait. The conservation lab at the Boston Museum of Social…

It was just a photo of a girl with flowers, but what she’s holding in her hand tells a different story. The afternoon sun filtered…

The air hung thick and wet, clinging to skin, filling lungs with moisture that felt more like drowning than breathing. In the fields, cotton plants…

An old freed slave hid in an abandoned house. Masters found him but did not see his giant son. When the overseers broke into the…

It seemed like just another artifact from the reconstruction era. Two boys standing side by side, books in hand, posed before a painted backdrop of…

A happy family portrait from 1863, concealed a deadly secret. Sarah Chun, a forensic historian specializing in civil warrior photography, sat in her Boston office,…

What if I told you that one of the most feared plantations in Louisiana was brought to its knees by the sickest, weakest looking man…

The photograph had been sitting in a cardboard box for over a century, wrapped in yellowed newspaper and forgotten in the basement of the Philadelphia…

The legend of Blackwood Plantation does not begin with a scream, nor does it begin with the thunder of a summer storm, but rather with…




