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Today in History: September 2, fire engulfs dive boat off Southern California, killing 34
1+ week, 5+ day ago (359+ words) Today is Wednesday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2026. There are 120 days left in the year. On Sept. 2, 2019, a fire swept a vessel carrying recreational scuba divers that was anchored near an island off the Southern California coast; the captain and four…...
Dutch life on Long Island exhibition at New York Historical to close Sunday
2+ week, 2+ day ago (534+ words) Visitors at the "Old Master New Amsterdam" exhibition in the New York Historical on Aug. 21. The show closes on Sunday. Credit: Ed Quinn Before it was Long Island, it was Lange Eylandt. For the Dutch settlers in the 1600s who colonized…...
National Georgraphic Society
2+ week, 4+ day ago (99+ words) goSkagit - Manage Subscription (Pay Your Bill, Vacation Request, Update Account Info) Signage for the Museum of Exploration at the newly reimagined public plaza at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. There was a problem reporting this. Keep…...
Eating smoke on the lines: The Navy and the 1938 Bloedel Fire
2+ week, 5+ day ago (505+ words) Published 10:00 pm Tuesday, August 25, 2026 By Drew Bury-Clelland, Museum Staff In July 1938, Campbell River was surrounded by raging fire, isolating the town from the rest of the world. The Bloedel fire, commonly known as the Sayward fire, started on July 7 and…...
Unseen Smithsonian treasures revealed: What’s really hidden behind closed doors?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (420+ words) As the Smithsonian Institution marks its 180th anniversary, the numbers behind the scenes are staggering: roughly 155 million artifacts, artworks and specimens are held across its museums, galleries and off-site facilities. Young Democratic Socialists of America members: Unemployed, but maybe not so…...
Lubbock In The 1990s Had Cotton Fields Near Town, No Loop 88, And A Dry County
3+ week, 2+ day ago (260+ words) The 1990s in Lubbock, Texas- "what a time to be alive." Lubbock, like the rest of the world, has changed tremendously since, as the kids would say, "the nineteen hundreds". I do feel that change has been ever more steep for…...
Here's how a piece of Lancaster County Hispanic history was acquired by the Smithsonian
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1045+ words) Ramona Rivera Navedo with the framed piece of drywall before it was accessioned into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino. Ramona Rivera Navedo at Tec Central for the Latino History from Lancaster County to…...