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2 steamfitters used welding skills to search for 9/11 survivors at Ground Zero – WTOP News
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (765+ words) anniversary of 9/11, the NBC Washington reporter talked to WTOP about his film, “Five Days on the Pile.” It’s the...9/11 attacks by waving off any discussion. He told WTOP how making the film revealed the horror of what...grabbed it. It…...
Today in History: September 9, Attica prison uprising begins – WTOP News
5+ day, 57+ 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…...
fresco and mosaic featuring maritime city unveiled at newly restored Baths of Trajan – WTOP News
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (356+ words) Mayor Robert Gualtieri presented the recently restored “Painted City” fresco and “Great Mosaic” that were discovered in an underground gallery during excavations in the 1990s of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppio hill near the Colosseum. The works are opening…...
The Maryland 400’s last stand became a defining moment in American history – WTOP News
1+ week, 4+ 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???
2+ week, 6+ day 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, 4+ day ago (305+ words) Maryland’s Master of Library Sciences program, told WTOP. “I instantly recognized it as the ‘Letter From...
African American history museum on National Mall marks a decade with anniversary events
3+ week, 5+ 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, 6+ hour 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…...