WW2 found in Tennessee

Museum says missing Nazi submarine mystery solved

A Danish war museum says it found German U-boat U-3523 embedded on the sea floor, quashing years of speculation.

York County Historical Society

Are You Smarter Than a Curator?

Mother’s Day At York County History Center

York Civil War Round Table Meeting: The Battle of Trevilian Station

York County History Center Hosts ALLVETS Group For Oral Histories

York County History Center To Present Estate Planning Seminar

The Face of a Monster: America's Frankenstein

The Paperback of the The Face of a Monster: America's Frankenstein by Patricia Earnest Suter at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $25 or more!

USS Indianapolis wreckage found 72 years later - CNN Video

The remains of the USS Indianapolis, which delivered parts of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and was later sunk by a Japanese submarine, have been found.

Gaming etc.

Top 5 Mistakes Made by Game Company Executives

Modern Tabletop Arcades

Ahead of Their Time: Discontinued Game Consoles

Andrew Kamal is an app developer, programmer, and inventor who loves writing about historical technology and old games. He can be found in his free time hugging pugs and debating people about which pizza topics are better.

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Siberia: Medieval Mummies From Mystery Arctic Civilization Discovered in Zelenyy Yar Necropolis

Two medieval mummies from a mystery Arctic civilization have been discovered at the edge of Siberia. The remains of an adult and baby were found in the Zelenyy Yar necropolis, an archaeological complex first discovered in 1997, and were covered in copper-with the adult having been plated from head to

Civil War Coloring Pages

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Library Company of Philadelphia

A New Looking-Glass for the 1764 Pamphlet War

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BibleRescue - Reuniting famly bibles with family

The family bible is a family's connection to the past and future. It connects an entire family across generations to their history, to their faith and provides an understanding of who their ancestors were. Family bibles often contain locks of hair, photographs, newspaper articles in addition to names, dates of birth, death and marriages.

Museum News: February 2017

Museum News: November 2016

Building Dedication Thursday September 15, 2016

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Presidents Day celebrated with Wheatland Living History tours

February 2018 Story Ideas

The Historian July 26, 2017

The Historian May 31, 2017

100 Years After US Entry Into World War I, Motivations Revisited

April Living History: Precocious, Passionate, & Plodding Buchanan

April 2017 Story Ideas from LancasterHistory.org

The Friends of the Tanger Arboretum Annual Dinner

LancasterHistory.org Honors National Black History Month With Program Set

Lancaster Legend Who Immortalized Christmas Music is the Focus of Free Colloquium

December 2016 Story Ideas

A Salute to Pearl Harbor

Welcome to LancasterHistory.org

FREEDOM: "to secure the Blessings of Liberty" explores the stories of Lancastrians who sought, fought for, lived in, and were denied freedom over the course of 300 years. They are stories of hope, joy, struggle, and survival from Penn's Holy Experiment through the 21st century.

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25^rd Annual Art & Leisure Auction

Features “Flashback Friday” Theme

Fastnacht Day: February 28 at

York County History Center

Fastnacht Day will be celebrated at the York County History Center’s Historical Society Museum on Tuesday, February 28, 2017, from 9:30 a.m. – noon. The Friends of the History Center will serve fastnachts, coffee, tea and hot chocolate at the Museum, located at 250 E. Market Street, York.

This free event is held each year as the Friends’ “thank you” to the community for their support throughout the year. Fastnacht Day originated with Pennsylvania Germans on Shrove Tuesday, when all fat had to be removed from the home before Lent.

The Friends hold fundraising events all year to benefit the programs and exhibits of the History Center.

York County History Center Closed January 26-27, 2017

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Universal York Blog

Did colonial courthouse windows end up in the Dover area?

Jonathan Mifflin turns down York County post

York, Pa., really is the center of the universe, especially when you consider its place in historical events. Local historian June Lloyd looks at how things have converged on our hometown, past and present.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Pearl Harbor and the Erosion of Citizenship

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Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society | Preserving the culture of Mennonite-related faith communities in Lancaster County

Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society has added a new field trip to the 2016 schedule of events. Get a new view of historic sights in Lancaster and Lebanon with the upcoming field trip, "The Trail of Greenywalt's Boys."

Swann winter/spring 2018 auction schedule

Printed & Manuscript Americana

PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF SALE 2450, June 7, 2017:

Printed & Manuscript African Americana

L.A. Assemblage Artists Featured in Swann African-American Fine Art Auction

Early East Indies Trade Maps Go Far

Swann Auction Galleries November Printed & Manuscript Auction November 17, 2016

Revolutionary Americana & Early Mormon Materials See Historic Prices

American Political Signatures Steal the Show

Travel Posters Take Off: Ten Record Prices Achieved

Swan Auction: Preliminary results of Sale 2413, November 1, 2016

Illustration Art
Draws A Crowd

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Half-century of history at Dover AFB

Air defense in Dover

Thunderbirds return

State-of-the-art at the time

The 'Proud Pelicans' of the 9th Airlift Squadron just keep on flying

VIDEO: Proud Pelicans keep on flying

 Headquarters, as it was

Cold War expansion

436th Airlift Wing commanders look back on a half-century of history at Dover AFB

Cargomasters on the flight line, 1960

Helicopters hard at work

436th Operations Group is the heartbeat of Dover Air Force Base

Windsor Historical Society

Windsor Historical Society - The museum, library, and historic houses explore 370 years of history in Connecticut's oldest English town

American Antiquarian Society

About AAS The American Antiquarian Society is a national research library of American history and culture through 1876.more

Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs

African American History Month programs among 18 special events at the museums of the State of Delaware during February 2018

Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs to sponsor eight free programs during January 2018

Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs to sponsor 21 special programs during the 2017 winter-holiday season

“Doctor Who and William Penn” to be presented at Dover, Del.’s Old State House on Aug. 19, 2017

Newsletter of the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs July 28, 2017 * Volume 10, Issue 7

Newsletter of the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs June 29, 2017 * Volume 10, Issue 6

Online survey seeks public input regarding the preservation of historic places in Delaware

Newsletter of the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs June 1, 2017 * Volume 10, Issue 5

Zwaanendael Maritime Celebration: “A Sailor’s Life for Me” in Lewes, Del. on May 27 and 28, 2017

Newsletter of the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs March 27, 2017 * Volume 10, Issue 3

Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs to sponsor 14 free programs during March 2017

New exhibit now open at Lewes, Del.’s Zwaanendael Museum

“Listen Up! African-American History” program Rescheduled

Newsletter of the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs Jan. 31, 2017 * Volume 10, Issue 1

  African American History Month programs among 17 special events at the museums of the State of Delaware during February 2017

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Virginia Tech was not the worst school massacre in U.S. history. This was.

That spring morning in 1927 could not have been more beautiful, one of the students would later recall. The Bath Consolidated School just outside East Lansing, Mich., was holding final exams, but before the morning bell rang on May 18, 1927, children ran and played outside. Peals of laughter could be heard.

WWII veteran's remains return home after missing 74 years

ATLANTA (AP) - More than 70 years ago, a U.S. Army plane dubbed "Hot as Hell" was headed for India on a supply mission. It never arrived, and no one went looking for the doomed aircraft or the eight men on board because military officials had no way of pinpointing where it went down.

Sword belonging to commander of black Civil War unit found

BOSTON (AP) - The sword that belonged to the commanding officer of the first all-black regiment raised in the North during the U.S. Civil War has been recovered after being lost to history for more than 150 years. The British-made sword carried into battle by Col.

'America's Frankenstein': Book to examine Philly's 'first mass murderer'

An upcoming book seeks to find the links between the fable of Frankenstein and a brutal Philadelphia mass murder that occurred nearly 50 years after the release of the famous novel. In "The Face of a Monster: America's Frankenstein," Delaware author Patricia Earnest Suter revisits the gruesome killings of eight people at the hands of Anton Probst in 1866.

Jaw-dropping discovery: Soldier's diary retells WWI horrors

Norman Gray, a fresh-faced 19-year-old was shipped off to France in 1914 to fight in World War I. Now his diary resurfaced, documenting the horrors of war.

Maria Tesch, 1850-1936 * - Kulturarv Östergötland

Östgötsk kulturhistoria. Uppgifter om arkiv, bibliotek, museer, hembygdsföreningar m.m.