
I discovered the truth about the photograph on a Tuesday afternoon in November, sitting alone in my late mother’s house, with a magnifying glass in…

The box arrived on a Thursday afternoon in late October, delivered by a postal worker, who seemed relieved to hand it off, as though the…

The auction house called it lot 247, a Victorian era photograph of minor historical interest. Estimated value between $2 and $400. The catalog description was…

The auction house called it lot 247, a Victorian era photograph of minor historical interest. Estimated value between $2 and $400. The catalog description was…

For 73 years, the Bellamy family portrait hung in the same spot on the same wall. First in the farmhouse outside of Deca, where it…

In the summer of 1846, a sealed ledger was placed in the Adams County Courthouse basement in NHZ, Mississippi. The ledger remained there untouched for…

When the parish doctor arrived at the Harrove plantation that August morning in 1857, the first thing he noticed was the silence. No sound came…

Georgia, 1860. Silus Harrow owned 300 acres of cotton and 42 slaves. Every morning he ate fresh eggs with bacon. Every evening, roasted meat and…

In 1890, in a small photography studio in Lancaster, England, a photograph was taken of two young sisters, one approximately 9 years old, the other…

This 1903 portrait appears calm, but the slave’s reflection in the mirror reveals a stark truth. Marcus Webb stood in his late grandmother’s attic in…




