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‘It’s still echoing — what happened that day’: 2 steamfitters used welding skills to search for 9/11 survivors at Ground Zero – WTOP News
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (765+ words) Paul Wagner has been telling stories on radio and television in the D.C. region for decades. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the NBC Washington reporter talked to WTOP about his film, “Five Days on the Pile.” It’s the story he felt was…...
Today in History: September 9, Attica prison uprising begins – WTOP News
6+ day, 58+ min ago (291+ words) Today is Wednesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2026. There are 113 days left in the year. On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, taking 42 staff members hostage and demanding improvements to inmate treatment and…...
The Maryland 400’s last stand became a defining moment in American history – WTOP News
1+ week, 5+ day ago (508+ words) Two hundred fifty years ago, as American forces faced one of their darkest moments in the Revolutionary War, a group of Maryland soldiers helped prevent a battlefield defeat from becoming a catastrophe. Their sacrifice during the Battle of Long Island…...
Preservationists are working to extend the life of a rare Revolutionary War???witness tree???
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (755+ words) August 24, 2026, 7:06 AM Did one of the British soldiers encamped at this South Carolina crossroad near the end of the Revolutionary War sit in the oak’s shade to recuperate from the series of attacks in American Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene’s “war…...
Intern at Virginia seminary finds original draft of letter by Martin Luther King Jr.
3+ week, 5+ day ago (305+ words) August 19, 2026, 11:52 AM While sifting through material at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria earlier this year, Nick Gentry made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery. There, among the collection belonging to John Melville Burgess, the first African American to lead an Episcopal diocese,…...
African American history museum on National Mall marks a decade with anniversary events
3+ week, 6+ day ago (512+ words) August 18, 2026, 6:22 AM The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is preparing to celebrate its 10th anniversary next month, marking a milestone for a museum whose first donor plans to be there for the occasion. Donnette Cooper became involved…...
Ben Franklin chose America. Son William chose the crown. This civil war is a microcosm of revolution
4+ week, 1+ day ago (924+ words) WEATHER ALERT: Multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected across the D.C. region through Sunday night August 16, 2026, 7:42 AM William Franklin was buried at the graveyard of St. Pancras Old Church following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he…...