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Jamestown mystery: Whose bones have been uncovered?

JAMESTOWN, Va. – The skeleton was beautifully laid out in a formal English-style burial, hands at the sides, palms down, the body probably pinned up in a shroud. The arms, legs an...

DATE: Jul 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

The Harlem Hellfighters were captured in a famous photo. Now a retired archivist has uncovered their stories.

WASHINGTON – The nine African American soldiers were just home from the war. It was Feb. 12, 1919, and most were bundled in heavy coats as they posed for the photographer on the deck of the ...

DATE: Nov 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Marked dead in Vietnam, a long journey back to life

HALLETTSVILLE, Texas – Ronald Ridgeway was “killed” in Vietnam on Feb. 25, 1968. The 18-year-old Marine Corps private first class fell with a bullet to the shoulder during a savag...

DATE: Jul 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New center will celebrate life of Harriet Tubman

CHURCH CREEK, Md. – She preferred moving in the darkness of long winter nights. She didn’t wait for late passengers: The “train” for Zion always left on time. And she carried a pistol, in ca...

DATE: Mar 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Archivist gets Wright answer Missing patent papers for brothers’ ‘Flying Machine’ found

The beat-up manila envelope sat on a table in the National Archives office in Kansas City, Missouri. It had just been fetched from a limestone cave outside of town, and conservator Lauren Va...

DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Enterprise hits space dock

Smithsonian museum repairing model from TV show

DATE: Feb 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Agency wants to protect Outer Banks ‘battlefield’

Allied ships sunk off North Carolina coast

DATE: Feb 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Lincoln Memorial to get multimillion-dollar overhaul

WASHINGTON - The National Park Service announced Monday that the Lincoln Memorial will undergo a major renovation over the next four years, thanks largely to an $18.5 million donation by bil...

DATE: Feb 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trumpet from sunken ship holds WWII secrets

Broken instrument could contain DNA from the sailor who played it

DATE: Feb 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Navy works to ID USS Oklahoma’s lost crew on anniversary of Pearl Harbor

Science may aid identification of bones from Pearl Harbor tomb ship

DATE: Dec 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

WWII Monuments Men group facing demise

The Monuments Men Foundation, created to honor and further the work of the World War II art experts who saved cultural treasures looted by the Nazis, will probably cease ongoing operations t...

DATE: Oct 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

CSS Hunley gets restored

For more than a century, the CSS Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations. ...

DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World