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Jefferson’s link to Sally Hemings’s children may have been settled by a hair
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (141+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. A strand stuck in glue that Thomas Jefferson used to make a…...
What’s next for Boston’s Museum of African American History? A Q&A with Noelle Trent
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1234+ words) Add Boston.com as your preferred source on Google to see more of our stories. For more than 60 years, the Museum of African American History has preserved and shared Black history in Boston and Nantucket, including through historic sites such…...
New light shone on how notorious warlord Genghis Khan changed the world
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (485+ words) Curator Dr Marie Favereau said: "The Mongolians created new maps, science was very developed, they loved astronomy, they loved art. "Paintings were important, ceramics. So the idea is to recreate this world that you can now touch." Ongoing archaeology efforts…...
How likely is it that a shipwreck washes ashore in Massachusetts?
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (419+ words) Add Boston.com as your preferred source on Google to see more of our stories. On Monday, parts of a possible 19th-century shipwreck washed up on a Nantucket beach following last weekend’s nor’easter. In July, a vessel and human remains…...
Brits bury time capsule in America’s yard in show of solidarity
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (93+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Another time capsule, a twin to the one now near the Washington…...
Haifa — a century-old battle, the politics of memory - Shashi Tharoor writes
1+ week, 1+ day ago (127+ words) In this video, Congress MP and author Dr. Shashi Tharoor breaks down the historical legacy, colonial complexities, and modern diplomacy behind the Battle of Haifa (1918), expanding on his lead article in The Hindu. You are logged in You donât…...
Nor'easter reveals 19th-century shipwreck in Nantucket. See the video.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (30+ words) A powerful nor’easter that swept across the Northeast over the weekend exposed part of a shipwreck buried beneath Nantucket’s south shore. Nor'easter reveals 19th-century shipwreck in Nantucket. See the video....
Maritime experts travel to Nantucket to investigate shipwreck remains exposed by nor’easter
1+ week, 1+ day ago (563+ words) By LEAH WILLINGHAM, Associated Press The Egan Maritime Institute said its exhibits and collections manager would survey the site and send a report to state underwater archaeologists, who then will work with the institute to determine which vessel the wreckage…...
Poison umbrellas, exploding telephones: Inside the epicentre of Cold War spying
1+ week, 5+ day ago (688+ words) September 26, 2026 — 5:00am I dare say I’ve learned a lot in my decades of travel but, until now, never how to crack a safe, fool a lie-detector machine, or conceal a recording device in the heel of a shoe. While I doubt these…...
Meet Doc, a World War II-era B-29 bomber on display in Wilmington
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (26+ words) Wilmington Star-News Meet Doc, a World War II-era B-29 bomber on display in Wilmington...