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Backyard structures bespeak a separate history. Author Mike Olmert shares his study of outbuildings.

America's smallpox eradication has its roots in 18th-century Boston.

Colonial medicine is not for the faint of heart. Sharon Cotner describes the philosophies and practices.

What's lost is found, safe in a place it never left. Scott Stephenson describes a rediscovery.

Zooarchaeologist Joanne Bowen decodes 400-year-old leftovers.

Piracy is equal parts economics and adventure. Author Carson Hudson describes the lust for treasure.

Foreign tools and family treasures came to America like stowaways in immigrants' baggage. Trish Balderson retraces migration's story through museum objects.

Old sources give fresh voice to slavery's story. Manager of African American programs Tricia Brooks explains how we know what we know.

Gardener Larry Griffith and Photographer Barbara Lombardi summon botanic phantoms and capture their essence on film.

Bricks and mortar bear witness to a contest of aesthetics and evidence. Senior Architectural Historian Carl Lounsbury tells the story of the Capitol's reconstruction.

Director of Educational Program Development Bill White and his team create a television broadcast to nurture citizens for a new era.

The means have changed, but the end is the same. Interpreter Jay Templin describes the tactics of information gathering.

Colonial tradesmen learned the swordmaking craft as Virginia armed itself for war. Journeyman brass founder Suzie Dye describes the process.

Virginia's soil yielded unexpected resources. Journeyman Blacksmith Shel Browder talks about an early iron foundry at Jamestown.

The craving for liberty is a universal human trait, explains EFT author Christy Coleman.