Material Culture

history-artifacts

The Liberty Bell was ordered in 1751 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of William Penn’s Charter of Privileges. It was cast that y...

New England History

New England artifacts encompass tools, domestic objects, trade items, and artworks made and used in the region from early Indigenous communities through European settlement and...

Guides And Explainers

Dolls function as concentrated symbols of memory, identity, and social possibility, their meaning shaped across childhood play, spiritual practice, artistic criticism, and every...

history-culture

Bone tomahawks are compact, high-information artifacts of Indigenous material culture that combine function, symbolism, and trade history in a single handheld tool. This evergre...