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The bigotry is just so off the rails right now... #rfk

Bluesky has four types of users... #bluesky #history

A new Chicago History Museum exhibit includes a dress fragment kept by Elizabeth Keckly. Born enslaved, she bought her freedom, became Mary Lincoln’s dressmaker, and organized aid for newly freed people during the Civil War. #history #arthistory #historynews www.chicagohistory.org/chicago-hist...

Springfield’s 1895 George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum reopened yesterday after nine months of preservation work. springfieldmuseums.org/press-releas... #historynews #museum

Maybe it's the historian in me, but all these stories about coders leaving AI companies while everyone else keeps on trucking reminds me a little too much of the Titanic... #ai #claude

A new Milwaukee exhibition explores 180 years of mining through photography. In 1911, Lewis Hine photographed boys sorting coal in Pennsylvania, exposing child labor behind America's industrial growth. #arthistory #museumnews #history mam.org/exhibitions/...

AP reports that Acadia National Park removed a sign explaining Cadillac Mountain’s sacred meaning to the Wabanaki. Their peoples have lived in the region for 10,000+ years. #nativehistory #erasinghistory #historynews www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A Roman figurine, an ancient hunting bow, and a mountaineer's helmet—melting Swiss glaciers are revealing a remarkable historical archive. A new exhibition in Lucerne displays the discoveries. #climatechange #history apnews.com/article/swit...

A Roman coffin. An Anglo-Saxon skeleton. New research at Westminster Abbey suggests a 4th-century sarcophagus was reused for an abbot around 1020. Radiocarbon dating narrows the mystery— #Archaeology #History www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/m...

A supposed clue to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance turned out to be washed-up trees, researchers announced today. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished in 1937 while flying toward Howland Island. The island-castaway theory remains unproven. #historynews www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Egypt wasn't the Nile's only great civilization. Kushite kings ruled Egypt in the 8th–7th centuries BCE, and Nubians built their own pyramids. A new exhibition at North Carolina's Museum of Art opened yesterday—with free admission today. #History #Archaeology ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Am I the only one who was thinking about Fonzie "jumping the shark" while watching that Tesla event?!? #tesla #jumptheshark

#OtD 16 Oct 1859 abolitionists led by John Brown, including Black people recruited by Harriet Tubman, raided a federal armoury in Harpers Ferry, WV, to get weapons to arm enslaved people. Several were killed, and Brown later executed for treason stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8828...

#historymeme

A new study reveals a 13,800-year-old base camp in Alaska, complete with bone needles, stone tools, an earth oven, and traces of a possible dwelling. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42873868/

More than 20,000 historic bricks return to Houston Freedmen's Town www.chron.com/culture/arti... #blackhistory #history

#OtD 16 Oct 1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. Moving to London, he became an advocate of libertarian socialism and an early inspiration for what would become a movement for LGBT+ rights. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 16 Oct 1793 Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France before the French revolution, widely but incorrectly believed to have said about the angry and hungry masses "let them eat cake", was beheaded. Learn more about working class radicals in the rev: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

Sun Stone, National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City. January, 2025. 📷 Fujifilm X100VI 🎞 23 mm – 1/35″ – f/5.6 – ISO 2000 🏷️ #Photography

John Brown Tee in honor of the anniversary of his raid on Harpers Ferry. #johnbrown #harpersferry historyhappenings.etsy.com/listing/4315...

Laramie County Library receives $10K grant to develop oral history project. capcity.news/general/2026... #oralhistory #publichistory

A farmer in Egypt’s Nile Delta spotted an inscribed stone outside his home—and helped uncover the remains of two colossal royal statues. archaeologymag.com/2026/10/gian... #egypt #historynews #discovery

On October 9, 2026, the Driehaus Museum opened Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History, the Chicago presentation of the first museum exhibition devoted to Emma Stebbins. #arthistory #museum #historynews driehausmuseum.org/exhibition/e...

I see historical inaccuracies in media are trending. My personal favorite, William Wallace didn't wear a kilt! A few centuries off on that one... #kilt #braveheart

Egypt just unveiled the restored 2nd-century “Tondo of the Two Brothers.” In Roman Egypt, portraits could be placed over mummified faces, blending Egyptian funerary customs with Greco-Roman painting. #Arthistory #History #Archaeology egyptianmuseumcairo.eg/artefacts/po...

250 years ago today, Benedict Arnold’s fleet lost the Battle of Valcour Island—but delayed a British invasion from Canada. The Smithsonian is now conserving the recovered gunboat Philadelphia. #History #historynews www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

New poster in the shop! #civilwarbuff #historyposter historyhappenings.etsy.com/listing/4395...

Founded by free and enslaved Black Virginians in 1776, Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church reclaimed its original site yesterday. Rebuilding it restores a story long excluded from Colonial Williamsburg. #BlackHistory apnews.com/article/virg...

A new Dallas museum exhibit opens today to challenge the myth of an all-white Wild West. After emancipation, Black cowboys helped drive cattle across the frontier—roughly 1 in 4 trail cowboys. #BlackHistory #history #museum #historynews #afamhistory www.dhhrm.org/press-releas...

A little meme humor to start the weekend. #letthemeatcake #historymeme #historyhumor

New image of an ancient wonder: Divers find ring showing Lighthouse of Alexandria at sunken palace www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20... #history #discovery #historynews

Fun with memes! #history #historymeme #historyhappenings

“Staunch reformers” is a 1831 hand-coloured lithograph by John Dickinson showing a dense crowd of men at a London street-corner following the defeat of the Second Reform Bill. Men holding signs that include 'Tom Paine’s Rights of Man—one penny!!!', 'Union is Strength' and 'Reform, No Taxes'.

How I ended up here. #bluesky #history #howiendeduphere

Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, a new expedition is underway to test whether an object off Nikumaroro could be wreckage from her Lockheed Electra. www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202... #historynews #ameliaearhart #history #aviation #airplane

New museum! www.ferris.edu/news/archive... #blackhistory #history #publichistory #historynews #museum

Henrietta Lacks: The 'immortal' cells that changed the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgB1IqGp8BE #BlackHistory365 #HenriettaLacks #HeLaCells #OnThisDay #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #MedicalHistory #BlackWomenInHistory #InformedConsent #PreservingOurStory #TheEnglandManor

Part of a cross-shaft from Holy Island in Northumberland. Dating to the 9th century, the cross-shaft is part of the collections at the Lindisfarne Priory Museum. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Lindisfarne #Northumberland

Archaeology is revealing how religion, politics & civic identity overlapped in a Roman town. #History #Archaeology #italy www.initaly.it/en/articolo/...

Archaeologists in Greece may have found the school where Aristotle tutored a teenage Alexander the Great: mosaic-floored halls, a 200m colonnade, and four writing styluses. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... #aristotle #ancienthistory #alexanderthegreat #historynews #history

Cherokee Nation advocates for federal memorial in Tulsa's Greenwood District/Black Wall Street www.kosu.org/tulsa-greenw...

Archaeologists in Iowa are uncovering the lives behind America’s railroad boom. A dig in Sioux City is investigating camps where 350–400 laborers lived, including segregated Italian, Black & other worker camps. archaeology.org/news/2026/10... #history #railroad #archaeology #historynews #ushistory

The Berlin Wall opened on November 9, 1989—but Germany was still divided. Then, at midnight on October 3, 1990, the Unification Treaty took effect and Germany was formally reunited. October 3 is still celebrated as German Unity Day. #GermanReunification #BerlinWall #ColdWarHistory #OnThisDay

The Smithsonian⁠� and Library of Congress are using AI to reconnect Revolutionary-era artifacts with newspapers, letters and pension files scattered across collections. apnews.com/article/arti... #ai #historynews #historicalresearch #history #americanrevolution

Hey historians! Check out this incredible CFP and please share!🗃️ atlanticexchanges.wm.edu/home-2/2027-...

DID YOU KNOW? The Eiffel Tower was supposed to be temporary... It was built for the 1889 World's Fair with a permit of about 20 years, and it was kept partly because it turned out to be useful as a radio antenna. #history #france #frenchhistory #eiffeltower #parishistory #didyouknow

South Korean soldiers searching for landmines uncovered something very different: Korea’s oldest surviving gunpowder weapon. gizmodo.com/south-korean... #history #historynews #asianhistory

Norway's rapidly melting Jotunheimen ice has revealed 48 prehistoric arrows. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/arch... #climatehistory #historynews #history

A diver in Wisconsin has discovered a 1,000-year-old Indigenous dugout canoe beneath Pewaukee Lake. www.wpr.org/news/diver-d... #history #historynews #canoe #wisconsin #archaeology

The Milwaukee Art Museum Just Returned Two Ceramics Made by Enslaved Potter David Drake to His Descendants www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t... #blackhistory #publichistory #afamhistory