@histhapp.bsky.social250 years ago today, Benedict Arnold’s fleet lost the Battle of Valcour Island—but delayed a British invasion from Canada. The Smithsonian is now conserving the recovered gunboat Philadelphia. #History #historynews www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...
@histhapp.bsky.socialA new Dallas museum exhibit opens today to challenge the myth of an all-white Wild West. After emancipation, Black cowboys helped drive cattle across the frontier—roughly 1 in 4 trail cowboys. #BlackHistory #history #museum #historynews #afamhistory www.dhhrm.org/press-releas...
@histhapp.bsky.socialNew image of an ancient wonder: Divers find ring showing Lighthouse of Alexandria at sunken palace www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20... #history #discovery #historynews
@histhapp.bsky.socialNearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, a new expedition is underway to test whether an object off Nikumaroro could be wreckage from her Lockheed Electra. www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202... #historynews #ameliaearhart #history #aviation #airplane
@histhapp.bsky.social@histhapp.bsky.socialArchaeologists in Greece may have found the school where Aristotle tutored a teenage Alexander the Great: mosaic-floored halls, a 200m colonnade, and four writing styluses. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... #aristotle #ancienthistory #alexanderthegreat #historynews #history
@histhapp.bsky.socialArchaeologists in Iowa are uncovering the lives behind America’s railroad boom. A dig in Sioux City is investigating camps where 350–400 laborers lived, including segregated Italian, Black & other worker camps. archaeology.org/news/2026/10... #history #railroad #archaeology #historynews #ushistory
@histhapp.bsky.socialThe Smithsonian� and Library of Congress are using AI to reconnect Revolutionary-era artifacts with newspapers, letters and pension files scattered across collections. apnews.com/article/arti... #ai #historynews #historicalresearch #history #americanrevolution
@histhapp.bsky.socialSouth Korean soldiers searching for landmines uncovered something very different: Korea’s oldest surviving gunpowder weapon. gizmodo.com/south-korean... #history #historynews #asianhistory
@histhapp.bsky.socialNorway's rapidly melting Jotunheimen ice has revealed 48 prehistoric arrows. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/arch... #climatehistory #historynews #history
@histhapp.bsky.socialA diver in Wisconsin has discovered a 1,000-year-old Indigenous dugout canoe beneath Pewaukee Lake. www.wpr.org/news/diver-d... #history #historynews #canoe #wisconsin #archaeology
@histhapp.bsky.socialA nor’easter just uncovered a piece of Nantucket’s maritime past. Wooden wreckage exposed on the beach is believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a schooner wrecked there in 1884. abcnews.com/US/shipwreck... #shipwreck #historynews #noreaster
@histhapp.bsky.socialArchaeologists have uncovered a massive wall that may be the first physical evidence of the Gaulish settlement of Lutetia described by Julius Caesar. www.culture.gouv.fr/regions/drac... #frenchhistory #historynews #discover
@histhapp.bsky.socialA major new exhibition on Shaker history opens today at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The exhibition explores a community that built its material culture around communal labor, simplicity, equality, and religious purpose. mam.org/info/pressro... #publichistory #shakers #historynews
@nabamart.bsky.socialMedieval manuscripts containing the will of Genghis Khan have been discovered in Mongolia. The Institute of History and Ethnology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences announced this exciting discovery.
#GenghisKhan #MongoliaHistory #AncientManuscripts #HistoricalDiscovery #HistoryNews
@histhapp.bsky.socialHouston’s historic Harper School has been largely demolished. Built in 1927 to educate Black children under segregation, it was one of the last physical remnants of the Black community of Chaneyville. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston... #civilrights #segregation #historynews #blackhistory
@histhapp.bsky.socialA secret draft of the U.S. Constitution—covered with George Washington’s handwritten notes—is on public display for the first time. The pages show something easy to forget: the Constitution wasn’t simply written; it was debated and revised before delegates signed it. #ushistory #historynews
@histhapp.bsky.socialArchaeologists excavating a Bronze Age kurgan, or burial mound, in the Sariyokhush area have uncovered the approximately 3,600-year-old burial of an apparently high-status warrior. #history #historynews #archaeology
@nabamart.bsky.socialProminent Israeli historian and thinker Yuval Noah Harari asserts that Israel has failed to translate its military gains in a war whose fronts are still open into diplomatic achievements....
#IsraelNews #HistoryNews #LionsAndLionesses #Donkeys #WorldNews
