On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut show in Chicago.

Thirty-seven years ago, I traveled behind the Iron Curtain to document the deadly pollution in the collapsing Soviet Union ...

The "Wayback Machine," custodian of digital memory, is fighting for its survival. An increasing number of media outlets are ...

The family memoir “Inheritance” grew out of the unlikely collaboration between a child of Jewish refugees and an Austrian ...

The plan is to increase its force over the next decade to nearly 500,000 active duty and reservist soldiers, roughly twice ...

A Tale of Laminated Invoices, Empty Glasses, and the Microbes of Truth A German walks into a bar. Of course he does. Not ...

A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were ...

Aadam Jacobs has recorded more than 10,000 concerts, with increasingly sophisticated equipment, over four decades in Chicago ...

Jacobs surreptitiously recorded the performance, documenting the fledgling band in raw, fiery form more than two years before Nirvana’s global breakthrough with the album “Nevermind.” ...

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...

The Internet Archive, also known as the Wayback Machine, is generally regarded as a place to view old web pages, but its value goes far beyond reviewing old pages. There are five ways that Archive.org ...