Latest from Michael E. Ruane
Human remains found at Williamsburg archaeology dig
Human remains found at Williamsburg church dig. Archaeologists find bone and tooth at site of vanished historic Black church.
- Feb 22, 2021
West Point football was all-White until 1966. So why does this 1920s photo show an all-Black squad?
West Point’s all black football team emerges from forgotten 1920s photos. National Archives scans reveal rare images of a black squad at the Army's elite academy.
- Feb 22, 2021
National Zoo to split with longtime partner FONZ
The pressure of the pandemic has forced a financial reckoning.
- Feb 4, 2021
Eight years after JFK’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy slipped into the White House for one last visit
Her visit came with secret help from Pat Nixon.
- Feb 3, 2021
Hundreds died on World War II ‘hell ships’. Now there’s an effort to identify the dead.
Pentagon experts seek to exhume remains of World War II Japanese “Hell Ships” victims. One daughter, now 82, hopes the father she never knew will be among them.
- Jan 29, 2021
This is how D.C. looks like the day before Biden’s inauguration
On the eve of the presidential inauguration, downtown Washington, D.C., looked nearly barren with the exception of a few protestors and military security.
- Jan 19, 2021
Watch the U.S. Marine Band rehearse for Biden's inauguration
The United States Marine Band held its last rehearsal on Jan. 19 before taking stage at the presidential inauguration.
- Jan 19, 2021
The Marine Band has played at every inauguration since Jefferson. It’s one tradition that will carry on this year.
After fear, violence and shattered traditions, the Marine Band hopes to lift the nation’s spirits.
- Jan 19, 2021
Lincoln’s first inauguration met with threats of kidnapping, killing and militias
Threats of murder, marches to DC by militia, and kidnapping plots greeted Lincoln’s first inauguration. The tense ceremony, on the eve of Civil War, was held on the east front of the Capitol in 1861, where earlier this month Trump mobs terrorized Congress, breached the building and attacked police.
- Jan 15, 2021
Pandemic forces Holocaust survivor interviews onto Zoom
With in-person meetings cancelled, time and covid have pushed voices of the Holocaust online.
- Dec 20, 2020