In recognition of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding and a collection abounding in cloth, The Henry Ford opens Fabric of America: Our Fashions, Textiles, and Technologies on June 7, 2026.

Have you ever wondered what happens when an archivist has a research question? Read on to learn about an archival mystery involving the evolution of the “Indy 500 Queen” crown.

The mycelia or root-like systems from which mushrooms emerge affect life broadly, stimulating decay as well as regeneration as this survey of collections and ongoing projects at The Henry Ford demonstrates.

With the opening of Greenfield Village in spring 2026, visitors to the Mattox Family Home will see a freshly—and even more advantageously—repapered interior. The Georgia Newspaper Project helped make it possible.

The Jackson Home was known as “The House by the Side of the Road” for the way it welcomed everyone who came by. It was this welcoming spirit that would place the home at the center of history, as the struggle for Civil Rights came to Selma in 1965.

“LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.”

Leonardo da Vinci, born in the 15th century, described and drew many ideas in his notebooks that bear a remarkable resemblance to real inventions of the 20th century.

In the mid-1980s, the multi-hyphenate artist and filmmaker Lillian Schwartz began to promote the computer as a tool capable of solving age-old mysteries in art history, architecture, and archeology.

A new exhibition in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation’s Collections Gallery – Handmade: The Crafting of America – opens to the public on March 21, 2026. This exhibit features stories from the rich 250 years of craft in America. As March is Women’s History Month, here are some highlights of the contributions of women in craft in our collections and in the exhibition.

Farm families in Alabama knew well the association between the countryside and lawlessness. Actions during February and March 1965 indicated the raw courage required within and beyond the countryside to effect change.