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From the rarest of the rare to everybody's favorite cartoon beagle, pin-back button experts and authors Ted Hake and Christen Carter share some of their favorite buttons.

Long before social media became the most popular platform for self-expression, there was the humble pin-back button. After 125 years the button – as political statement, punch line, conversation piece and souvenir – remains a pint-sized dynamo.

A bright and visually captivating new book, with the help of more than 1,500 images of pin-back buttons, captures the big and small moments that define us as a country.

Election posters have evolved into slick marketing tools. But if you look at the evolution of campaign posters you'll see early efforts were far more clunky than clever.

Ernest Warther’s hand carvings of steam locomotives a legacy of hobby.

David Pilgrim and the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia use objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social justice

At the beginning of the 20th century, lawn sprinklers were developed to keep emerging green spaces healthy. Today vintage sprinklers offer splendor in the grass.

Legendary collection of vintage shooting gallery targets takes center stage at Soulis Auctions in September. Early collectors Richard and Valerie Tucker embraced the targets, calling them 'iron as art.'

Innovation takes flight at The Henry Ford Museum, the brainchild of American industrialist and Michigan native Henry Ford, who founded Ford Motor Company in 1901. Ford started his museum largely based on the idea of learning by doing.