Life on America's farms in the 1920s and 1930s meant hard work and frugal habits. Farm families were used to "making do" with what they had, wasting nothing that could be recycled or reused. With feed ...

Aaron D. Crane (1804-1860) of Caldwell, New Jersey, was a clockmaker of brilliant inventiveness who worked outside the mainstream. Most of his contemporaries concentrated their energies on the mass ...

Visual descriptions are available throughout the exhibition via QR codes on raised discs, just like this one. On the floor below each QR code is a cane stop—two parallel foot-long bars. You will find ...

This exhibition and website explored Puerto Rico's history, from the 16th to the 20th centuries, through the eyes of collector Teodoro Vidal. Vidal captured the island's history by collecting ...

After slavery was abolished in the United States, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Constitutional amendments were passed to give newly freed African Americans legal status by abolishing ...