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📜Wow, breaking news: archaeologists discover ancient library in Turkey! Who knew history blogs could be about, you know, history? 🤯 Next up: water is wet! 💧
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107 #ancientlibrary #Turkey #archaeology #historynews #discovery #HackerNews #ngated

DATE: September 30, 2026 at 03:25AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: DNA From Thomas Jefferson's Hair Reveals Truth About Sally Hemings

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=191678&url=https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/science/thomas-jefferson-hair-dna-sally-hemings-children

Source: Yahoo News - Top Headlines

Scientists working with DNA fragments have revealed the strongest evidence to date that Thomas Jefferson, a founding father of the United States, also fathered children with Sally Hemings, who was one of his many slaves. The discovery is documented in the book "History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery," written by Richard Kurin, a distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian Institution, and published on...

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=191678&url=https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/science/thomas-jefferson-hair-dna-sally-hemings-children

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #ThomasJefferson #SallyHemings #DNAevidence #HistoricalDNA #JeffersonHemingsMystery #HistoryNews #SmithsonianResearch #HistoricalBiography #AmericanHistory #DNASequencing

UTC History Majors Explore Germany

This summer, UTC History students spent several weeks in Germany, primarily collaborating with the ongoing work at the…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #DepartmentNews #HistoryNews #StudentNews #WhatHistoryTeachesYou #WhatYouCanDowithaHistoryDegree #WhyHistoryMatters
https://www.europesays.com/germany/80299/

Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-monumental-ship-burial-beneath-ancient.html

#HackerNews #monumentalshipburial #ancientnorway #vikingage #archaeology #historynews

DISRUPTED GRAVES, FRAYED FEASTS: MONGOLIAN BURIAL MOUNDS REWRITE HISTORY

New studies on Mongolian khirigsuurs reveal why ancient horse remains are missing and how Bronze Age genetic data changes our history of nomadic groups.

#archaeology, #mongolia, #bronzeage, #historynews, #ancientrituals

https://newsletter.tf/mongolian-burial-mound-research-updates/

Archaeologists in Mongolia are finding that ancient burial mounds contain only horse skulls, not full skeletons. This suggests rituals were different than the mass feasts experts previously thought.

#archaeology, #mongolia, #bronzeage, #historynews, #ancientrituals
https://newsletter.tf/mongolian-burial-mound-research-updates/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/378807/ Were the French the ‘good colonisers’ in India? #EU #Europe #France #FranceHistory #FrenchHistory #History #HistoryNews #IndianExpress #Pondicherry #RobertIvermee

🚨Breaking News: Archaeologists discover earth-shattering artifact — a 9,000-year-old mask! Because clearly, ancient humans were just dying to attend the first prehistoric masquerade ball. 🎭🦖 Meanwhile, modern society's mask-wearing skills remain questionable at best. 😷👏
https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/334459-0 #Archaeology #Discoveries #AncientHistory #PrehistoricMasks #HistoryNews #MaskWearing #HackerNews #ngated

History News Network thinks they're the first to put current events into a historical lens, as if no one ever considered that before. 🙄 Subscribe for "new perspectives" that are just #rehashed old ones with a fresh coat of academic jargon. 🎹⚔️
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/blood-on-the-keyboard #HistoryNews #Perspectives #AcademicJargon #CurrentEvents #FreshTake #HackerNews #ngated

🆕 Congratulations to Aurora Almada e Santos, selected by Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) to be Visiting Professor at Brown University next Fall semestre.

Another international recognition of IHC researchers! 👏👏👏

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/aurora-almada-santos-teach-brown/

@histodons
#histodons #IHCnews #HistoryNews #AntiColonialism #BrownUniversity #AcademyNews

The Smithsonian just put 4.5 million historic images into the public domain via Smithsonian Open Access -- just an amazing selection of art, photographs and scans. Some examples are below. Check out the full repository here:

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

#photos #photography #history #art #Smithsonian #publicdomain #artnews #historynews #SmithsonianOpenAccess