Articles by Matthew Taub

There's lots to intrigue West Coasters, too.

The legendary athlete wanted to be remembered as a great baseball player, regardless of race, but history has its demands.

Architect Ronald Rael is documenting this aerial perspective.

In 1968, thousands of protesters camped on the National Mall as part of the Poor People's Campaign.

This isn't the first time they've come in handy during a pandemic.

Winning bidder take note: It is not safe to drink.

Loftus Hall holds tales of Satan, colonialism, and getting stood up by the Queen.

Woods was prolific, but was largely forgotten for many years after his death.

In 1901, a traveling researcher recorded some Chinese opera, and accidentally made music history.

It was discovered "forensically," thanks to Douglass's distinctive usage of an unusual word.

Letters and trinkets show off the personal sides of Einstein, Hawking, and Schrödinger.

A chronicle of lives lived from before the Civil War to today.

The series joins a growing list of real-time archival initiatives.

But not for much longer.

An image of a brave doctor, large enough to be seen from space.

A celebration of freedom, published next to advertisements for the slave trade.

Your awkward, rebellious stage, it turns out, is history.

The writer was concerned about the rise of binge-drinking bros.

All you need is an idea, an envelope, and a stamp.

Its dedicated, sagelike maker isn't at all upset.

Cerro Gordo has been abandoned since 1957. Now one man is social distancing there by himself.

It's a ghost town, but it's got a pool.

10 were discovered over just the last few months.

It waited 1,000 years in the desert, just for you.