r/history • u/thenervouslistener • 20d ago

News article Researchers have found the remains of a teenager who died 7,200 years ago, revealing a group of humans previously unknown to science

r/history • u/lotta_love • Jul 23 '21

News article HIS NAME WAS EMMETT TILL In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.

r/history • u/Cultural_Grapefruit7 • 20d ago

News article Stalin-era mass grave found in Ukraine

r/history • u/KeeperMemorials • Jun 25 '21

News article Grave of First Canadian-Born Black Lawyer Finally Gets Headstone in Saint John

r/history • u/qsnoodles • Jul 24 '21

News article Emiliano and Harriet Mundrucu, Two Early Pioneers of Civil-Rights Litigation, Were Famous in the 1830s but Have Been Almost Entirely Forgotten by History

r/history • u/Ethereal1111 • Aug 09 '21

News article Cucuteni-Trypillia: Eastern Europe's lost civilisation

r/history • u/Maxcactus • Apr 13 '21

News article George Washington’s historic River Farm is worth saving for reasons beyond the president, historians say

r/history • u/whothefuckeven • 29d ago

News article Hitler Was Once Friends With A Little Jewish Girl

r/history • u/0_percent_wrong • 2d ago

News article 4000 year old warrior skeleton holding axe found buried 4 meters underground at a golf course.

r/history • u/rainbowarriorhere • Mar 16 '21

News article The entrance to the Winterberg tunnel on the Chemin des Dames battlefront has been found.In woods on a ridge not far from the city of Reims, the bodies of more than 270 German soldiers have lain for more than a century - after they died the most agonising deaths imaginable.

r/history • u/looking4euterpe • Aug 04 '21

News article Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet | Archaeology

r/history • u/Rectospasmologist • Jul 05 '21

News article Man from Wales builds ancient machine that could explain how pyramids and Stonehenge were constructed - BBC News

r/history • u/idders • Mar 02 '21

News article Scientists find way to read priceless letters sealed 300 years ago and never opened

r/history • u/wawaboy • May 07 '21

News article 2,000-year-old marble head of Rome's first emperor discovered

r/history • u/manicbassman • May 06 '21

News article Ruby Bridges: the six-year-old who defied a mob and desegregated her school | Race

r/history • u/BabyChloeXO • Jul 23 '21

News article Ancient Roman artifacts discovered by police in seafood store

r/history • u/rubes___ • May 27 '21

News article Casimir Pulaski known as “the father of American Cavalry” and Brigadier General for George Washington’s army against the British was actually a women or intersex. 

r/history • u/DaddaMongo • Feb 21 '21

News article Violet Gibson - The Irish woman who shot Benito Mussolini

r/history • u/Feyangel0124 • Apr 21 '21

News article Archaeologists have found the Maryland cabin of Benjamin Ross, father of Harriet Tubman....

r/history • u/jepnet72 • Jun 20 '21

News article Gold coins lost in Black Death confusion found in Reepham

r/history • u/DaddaMongo • Jan 23 '21

News article Mary Ann McCracken: Belfast woman who fought slavery remembered

r/history • u/gobforsaken • Apr 09 '21

News article 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ of ancient Egypt discovered

r/history • u/wiscowall • May 24 '21

News article Leaked documents show US military considered using nuclear weapons against China in 1958

r/history • u/tta2013 • Feb 23 '21

News article Malcolm X family says letter shows NYPD and FBI conspired in his murder

r/history • u/allanwritesao • Aug 17 '20

News article Canada's delegate nearly derailed the WWII surrender ceremony by signing the document on the wrong line. Are there any other (in)famous historical examples of major (or amusing) consequences arising from minor clerical/documentary errors?