October 25, 2026 — 1:30pm Henry Ouseley Blake Lane, known as Harry, was just 18 when he helped stop Confederate forces burning Washington to the ground in 1864. That same year, he fought at the bloody Battle of Opequon in Virginia – a turning point in the…
October 23, 2026 — 5:43pm What does a 2000-year-old public notice banning the dumping of human faeces near water fountains reveal about political life in Pompeii and Herculaneum? It’s the four-mark question that had Parramatta Marist high school student Daniel Barletta grinning on Friday…
Just a couple of blocks from Kansas City, Kansas’ iconic John Brown statue — which marks the entrance to a tree- and brush-covered trail journeying into an extraordinary story of courage — history is struggling for survival. It’s been on life support…
Martin Luther King, Jr. Steven Raab’s Picks: Important Moments in History An Illustrated Guide to Buying Benjamin Franklin Autographs & Documents Attributes of the Presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt The Enduring Appeal of Ronald Reagan In the Press: “Prescient” Letter of Thomas…
October 15, 2026 — 7:01pm As details of the world’s oldest shipwreck rippled across the globe, the Australian archaeologist who played a pivotal role in cracking its secrets was digging in a dirt pit at a Sydney university. Dr Karin Sowada’s students watched on…
Thirty five names of Canadians — some from B.C. — from the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion are written on the fan, which is now on display The Museum of Vancouver recently received a rare and poignant artifact: a fan dating to the Spanish…
The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary A searing, insightful portrait of a one of the most enigmatic figures of the German Reformation Drummond shows us Müntzer as a human being. Far from the bloodthirsty devil of legend,…
October 11, 2026 — 1:38pm On a warm January day in Hawaii in early 1941, a flying boat appeared on the horizon over the sea, and landed in the water outside Honolulu. The plane - a Consolidated PBY Catalina – made its landing on January 27, it had…
LiDAR technology used by drone archaeologist Dr Jacob Bongers from the University of Sydney has successfully identified three unrecorded ancient Indigenous shelters. October 9, 2026 — 9:41am
Opal Lee celebrated her 100th birthday by kicking off the start of construction of a museum in her Texas hometown dedicated to telling the history of Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. Lee became known as the…
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