“African Venice,” originally published by the Venetian publishing house Wetlands and republished in April this year by ...

New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

A 176-year-old plantation and slave cemetery has been uncovered, revealing a hidden chapter of history. This site offers a ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life ...

After we reported on the lost Haile Field in this column, we found evidence of many other abandoned airports in the Austin ...

Author and Grand Rapids archivist, Matthew Ellis, talks about the inspiration and stories featured in his brand new book, "Hidden History of Grand Rapids." ...

This spring, the Library launched Uncovering Hidden Narratives, an online learning module that makes the Institute’s history more accessible. It originated from one student’s question about her family ...

A Virtual Tour Uncovers the Hidden History of Black Disenfranchisement Virtual reality is helping to unearth stories of the Black experience that have been paved over through the years.

One of the great dilemmas of contemporary historians is how to recover the history of people who left no written history of their own. How do we find out what women in second-century Edessa or Antioch ...

A 250-year-old discovery in the heart of Philadelphia is revealing a food staple that also helped pave the city's streets.

Genomic studies show Papua New Guineans are closely related to Asians, shaped by isolation, adaptation, and Denisovan ...

WRAL's Hidden History reporter Heather Leah takes you on a live walkthrough inside and out a vacant 1800s village that's for sale for less than the cost of a house in Raleigh.