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There are many things that pass through our hands every day that are intended to be thrown away. Individually, these items have relatively little value, but if one assembles a comprehensive collection, then they can suddenly take on significant importance as documentation of a given time, place, or community.

Posted: 1 week 2 days ago

Ukrainian Orthodoxy and the US labor movement?

Seemingly dry and boring parish records such as ledger books and meeting minutes can sometimes hide surprising historical facts.

Posted: 2 months 4 weeks ago

The Holodomor letters

Two letters sent to an Ukrainian exile in 1933 provide a first-hand account of the artificial famine in Kuban'.

Posted: 6 months 2 days ago

Multi-purpose village house

We in the West have gotten used to the idea that farmhouses are physically separate from the "barn", where livestock and grain are kept. This was not the case for traditional village houses in Ukraine.

Posted: 7 months 2 weeks ago

18th century embroidery

This 200+ year old textile fragment shows the ancient origins of a common Ukrainian embroidery pattern.

Posted: 9 months 2 days ago

Medieval cross

By far the oldest item in our permanent collection is this Kyivan Rus' cross-enkolpion.

Posted: 9 months 2 weeks ago

Architectural destruction past and present

In the 1930s, the anti-religious zeal of the Communist government resulted in the destruction of architectural masterpieces. Today, it is capitalist development.

Posted: 11 months 4 days ago

Legal document from 1731

One of the oldest written records in our collections is this legal document from 1731. It is written in Polish (not surprisingly, since much of Ukraine was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonweath at the time), and concerns the raising of funds for the monastery in Mezhyrichia, Ukraine.

Posted: 1 year 1 week ago

Voice of America radio script

Our archival collections include a substantial number of radio scripts used for broadcasts to Ukraine during the Cold War.

Posted: 1 year 4 weeks ago

Fearsome Easter egg birds

The birds on this pysanka (Ukrainian decorated Easter egg) are strong and serious animals, not "tweety-birds" or baby chicks. They have no-nonsense beaks and big claws. In fact, they're almost scary-looking.

Posted: 1 year 1 month ago

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