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An Ancient Body Found in the Ice in 1859 Has Finally Been Identified Using DNA From a Living BBC Journalist
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (483+ words) A body pulled from the Arctic ice in 1859 has finally been given a name. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have used DNA from living descendants to identify four more sailors from Sir John Franklin‘s doomed 1845 expedition, among them…...
A Union soldier aged just 16 to 19 was buried after the 1862 Battle of Manassas; 162 years later archaeologists found him beside four amputated limbs, and he is now set to be buried at Arlington
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (413+ words) More than 160 years after the Second Battle of Manassas, the remains of a young Union soldier are set to receive a final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery. According to the National Park Service, archaeologists uncovered the nearly complete burial…...
New marker honors 4 unknown soldiers killed in Battle of Lake George
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (302+ words) LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) —The Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance honored four unknown soldiers who were killed 271 years ago during the Battle of Lake George. The soldiers were buried at the site, but their identities were never discovered. The Battle of Lake…...
The incredible story of Jimmy Durham, the first black soldier to enlist in the British army
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (1779+ words) The cross in the old Fermoy military cemetery erected to the memory of Jimmy Durham, the first black soldier in the British army. Picture: Donal O'Keeffe In Fermoy’s old military cemetery, on the northern side of the town, a simple…...
HOLY COW! HISTORY: The loss that saved countless lives
1+ week, 1+ day ago (539+ words) L. Straus & Sons followed, quickly becoming a leading importer and wholesaler of glassware and crockery. At long last, fortune was finally smiling on the Straus family. Nathan married in 1875 and soon had six children. Straus and his brother Isidor soon sensed…...
Remembering Daniel Nimham in Putnam County
1+ week, 2+ day ago (394+ words) COLD SPRING- The Putnam History Museum in Cold Spring welcomed dozens of guests Friday evening for a talk with Michael Keropian tabbed “Revisiting Daniel Nimham.” Keropian, a resident of Kent and world-renowned sculpture, created an 8-foot-tall statue, cast in bronze…...
Revolutionary War battlefields often romanticize combat, but this mass grave just outside Philadelphia shows the violence soldiers actually experienced
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1137+ words) Jennifer Janofsky, Rowan University and Wade Catts, Rowan University (THE CONVERSATION) “I think I found a bone.” A volunteer whispered that to us on the last day of a public archaeology project at the Red Bank Battlefield Park in southern…...
Vietnam Veteran discovers ancestor who served in Revolutionary War
1+ week, 5+ day ago (261+ words) Nathan Bryan’s father was Hardy Bryan’s grandfather five times removed. Hardy Bryan, who attainted the rank of lieutenant colonel, is a Vietnam Veteran who served two tours, including one with the Army’s 262nd Quartermaster Battalion and later as commander of the…...
Historic Camden observes 246th Battle of Camden anniversary
1+ week, 6+ day ago (45+ words) The Lancaster News Despite hot, humid conditions, more than 80 people gathered on Saturday, Aug. 15, to commemorate the 246th anniversary of the Battle of Camden, one of the Revolutionary War's most significant engagements in South Carolina....
Researchers reconstruct face of man who lived through Norman Conquest
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (457+ words) English Heritage head curator of collections Kevin Booth lays out the skeleton of ‘Conquest Man’ at St Peter’s Church in Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, where he was originally buried in c1079 (Dominic Lipinski/English Heritage/PA) New research has revealed what a…...