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This Day in History

Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe
Shannon Lucid returns to Earth
“West Side Story” opens on Broadway
Kennedy and Nixon square off in first televised presidential debate
Meuse-Argonne offensive opens
First American soldier killed in American Phase of Vietnam War
Four 20-game winners
The famous frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri
T.S. Eliot is born
“The Brady Bunch” premieres

BBC News

Coronavirus: Madrid at serious risk without tougher rules, minister warns
Lebanon's PM-designate Adib fails to form new government after blast
Charlie Hebdo: Stabbings suspect 'was trying to target magazine'
Amy Coney Barrett 'to be picked by Trump for Supreme Court'
Deepika Padukone: Bollywood star questioned in Sushant Singh Rajput investigation
Ukraine military plane crash: Cadets among 26 people killed
Sparks fly during Los Angeles police chase
Switzerland gets ready to vote on ending free movement with EU
Cardinal Becciu: Vatican official forced out in rare resignation
Tasmania pilot whales: Rescuers release 108 surviving animals

New York Times

Trump Selects Judge Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court Nominee
What to Know About Amy Coney Barrett's Views
Barrett Clerked for Scalia. Conservatives Hope She’ll Follow His Path.
The Judicial Wars Started on Biden’s Watch. Can He End Them?
Mail-In Voting Fact-Check: What Is True and False?
In Colorado, Fiery Political Novice Aims for a Seat in the House
Portland Fears Violence as ‘Proud Boys’ Group Descends on City
How a Pledge to Dismantle the Minneapolis Police Collapsed
Police, Protests and Violence: How Times Video Experts Examine a Scene
The Virus Sent Droves to a Small Town. Suddenly, It’s Not So Small.

Time Magazine

CDC Calls Off Minnesota COVID-19 Study After Reports of Racism and Intimidation Against Surveyors of Color
Scores of Protesters Arrested in Belarus as Large Demonstrations Against the Authoritarian President Continue
New York Reports More Than 1,000 COVID-19 Cases in a Single Day
Thousands Protest COVID-19 Restrictions in London as U.K. Battles Second Virus Wave
Lebanon’s Prime Minister-Designate Resigns as Political Impasse Stalls Government Formation
TikTok or Not, Gen-Z Voters are Mobilizing to Show up on Election Day
Citing ‘Political Agenda’ and Closed Door Testimonies, Lawyers and Activists Grapple With Grand Jury’s Breonna Taylor Verdict
Keeping It Eel: How One Historian Is Using Twitter and Medieval Factoids to Help Endangered Animals
‘Plan for the Worst and Hope for the Best.’ Why Law Enforcement Officials Are Worried About Post-Election Violence
If Kajillionaire Is Weighed Down by Stylistic Quirks, Gina Rodriguez Brings It Back Into the Realm of the Human

Memorial Fund

Memorial Fund

Reuters News

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WSJ World News

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The World Next Week

Screening and Discussion of "Blood on the Wall"
The Future of U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
What Is Next for the WTO?
A Conversation With Abdullah Abdullah
Lessons on Reopening in a Pandemic From Around the World
A Conversation With Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran
Trust and Distrust in the American Political System
Distinguished Voices Series With Robert B. Zoellick
Reopening U.S. Schools During a Pandemic
Foreign Affairs September/October Issue Launch: What Happens When We Have the Vaccine?

AbeBooks Blog

Spend the night in Gladstone’s Library
Gustave Dore’s London
The Book of Black Magic
Arsons, forgeries & poker: how Johnny Jenkins blazed a trail through antiquarian bookselling
Italy in Bocca – how rare cookbooks with cardboard covers inspired a food film

Smithsonian History Feed

How Geraldine Ferraro's 1984 Campaign Broke the Vice-Presidential Glass Ceiling
The Real Aerial Battles That Inspired 'Star Wars'
Charlotte's Monument to a Jewish Confederate Was Hated Even Before It Was Built
Are There Native Descendants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition? And More Questions From Our Readers
How NASA Marketed Its Space Program With Fantastical Depictions of the Future
Germany May Have Banished Nazism, but Its Medieval Anti-Semitism Is Still in Plain Sight
Nero, History's Most Despised Emperor, Gets a Makeover
Fidel Castro Stayed in Harlem 60 Years Ago to Highlight Racial Injustice in the U.S.
Alexander von Humboldt: The Man History Forgot
How the Revolutionary Thinker Alexander von Humboldt Helped to Create the Smithsonian

The New Yorker

There Should Be No Doubt Why Trump Would Nominate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
Come on Down to Bad Apples Farm
The Flashing Warning of QAnon
Trump’s Selection of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court Is Part of a Larger Antidemocratic Project
How to Preserve American Elections
What to Stream: “Babies and Banners,” the Still Urgent Story of Women Workers on Strike
Trump’s Mandated Additions to the Classical Canon
Can a Newcomer Unseat Lindsey Graham?
How Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Death Is Changing the 2020 Election
The Bobo Knockout

History Today

On the Spot: Sujit Sivasundaram
Bats: Out of Hell?
Before Empire
Making Massacre
Why Study the Past?
The Last Sikh Queen
Death of a Medieval Polymath
The First Blind Medical Trials
No Such Thing
The Western Gaze

History Today Podcasts

‘The Terrible Lioness’
Terror on Wall Street
The Power of the Royal Mistress
The Rise of the Valkyries
Henry VIII Meets his Match
A History of the Oceans
The Wrongful Death of Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
Thebes: The Forgotten City
The Great Migration Mystery

Medievalists Blog

Medieval Bodies with Jack Hartnell
Used Medieval Books: From Edward to Gawain
Robin Hood – The Man, The Myth, and The History – Part 4: Will the Real Robin Please Stand Up?
Back to School, Medieval Peasant Style
The world of Orcadian runecarvers: the Western Sea, the South of the land, and Jerusalem

In the Middle – Medieval Blog

In Support and Solidarity
Open Letter from Medievalists In Support of the Wet'suwet'en Protectors
A Graduate Student in the (Farmers') Marketplace of Ideas
On hidden scars and the passive voice
#RaceB4Race: Beginnings

Medieval Hungary

10 Years of the Medieval Hungary blog
An Antonio Tempesta rediscovered in Budapest
In memoriam Paul Crossley (1945-2019)
Romanesque Stone Carvings Found at Borosjenő Castle
Monument Protection Archives Reopen in Budapest

History Extra Podcasts

Simon de Montfort and England’s First Revolution
Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary life
The Mayflower
JFK: the path to power
Viking genes unravelled
Hitler’s vengeance
Everything you ever wanted to know about the East India Company, but were afraid to ask
Ghosts of Viking London
Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya – the greatest female spy in history
Prisoners of the Japanese

Ask the Past

How to Freshen Your Face, 1565
How to Increase Your Energy, 15th century
How to Cure Your Cough, 1558
How to Interpret Forehead Wrinkles, 1562
How to Pest-Proof Your House, 1639
How to Bathe in January, c. 7th century
How to Make It Through November, c. 7th c.
How to Eat a Pumpkin, 1597
How to Survive a Mermaid Attack, 1527
How to Treat the Freshmen, 1367

CBC Ideas Podcasts

The Death of Leisure
Ideas from the Trenches: Incarcerated Women’s Resilience
The Buffalo, Part One
Dear Leader: Notes from the time of cholera
Beethoven's Scowl
Into the Wild: Anthropologist Wade Davis
The History of Serial Killers: Peter Vronsky
How jeans became one of the most polluting garments in the world
The Identity of Me, The Community of Us
The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism: Anne Applebaum

Council on Foreign Relations

Screening and Discussion of "Blood on the Wall"
The Future of U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
What Is Next for the WTO?
A Conversation With Abdullah Abdullah
Lessons on Reopening in a Pandemic From Around the World
A Conversation With Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran
Trust and Distrust in the American Political System
Distinguished Voices Series With Robert B. Zoellick
Reopening U.S. Schools During a Pandemic
Foreign Affairs September/October Issue Launch: What Happens When We Have the Vaccine?

A Don’s Life

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Today’s Document from the National Archives

First Kennedy-Nixon Debate

The History Blog

Reconstruction confirms accuracy of Fayoum child mummy portrait
Germanic princely grave found in Migration Period cemetery
8,400-year-old dog burial found in Sweden
Gallo-Roman wine vat found in Touraine
Farmer plows up a runestone
Anglo-Saxon cemetery with sand-silhouette skeletons found
First Shakespeare play to reach Spain found
Perfectly preserved cave bear found in Siberia
Hyper-resolution Night Watch
Conservators discover Michelangelo’s tool marks on Pietà

History of the Ancient World

A History of Ancient Rome in 10 Buildings
10 Self-Help Tips from a Roman Emperor
The Search for Early Christian Egypt: Archaeology and the Treasures of the Desert
Basel papyrus is an ancient medical text, researchers find
Spells, charms, erotic dolls: love magic in the ancient Mediterranean
Pliny the Elder’s History: Recording the past in the Naturalis Historia
Guide to the classics: the Epic of Gilgamesh
Rome’s Flaminian Obelisk: an epic journey from divine Egyptian symbol to tourist attraction
Religions of Ancient Italy
Research network sheds new light on drinking and eating habits in the Roman world

Got Medieval

Medieval Batman Cosplay Worth the Click-Through
The Medieval Secret To Besieging Castles That THEY Don’t Want You To Know (Wmm… Marginalia #118)
A Little Something Classy for the Patron (Mmm… Marginalia #116)
Speaking of Horses (Mmm… Marginalia #115)
Finally, a reason to call fundamentalists ‘medieval’
Make Like a Manuscript and Leaf (Mmm… Marginalia #114)
Adventures in Adaptation
On Horses, Getting Back On Them (Mmm… Marginalia #113)
Gravity in the Margins, again (Mmm… Marginalia #112)
Blasphemy, Blaspheyou, Blaspheverybody (Mmm… Marginalia #108)

History and Women

Boudicca - Rage Against the Dying Light
Martha Graham's Cold War
The Aloha Spirit - The Life of Carmen Dolores Jaime Medeiros Rodrigues
Edith of Wessex - The Confessor's Wife
George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) 1804-1876
Those Not-So Wicked Sporting Ladies of the Wicked West - Pearl DeVere
The Pioneer Women of California - Ellen VanValkenburgh, Emily Williams, and Eva VanValkenburg
Tituba - The First Witch of Salem
Mary De Morgan - A Writer of Fairy Tales
Suffragettes - Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflins

Roman Times

Iron Age Warriors of Eastern Iberia
Mysterious names of ancient ceramics
The ancient city of Tiryns in history and myth
Dogs, symbols of fidelity in the ancient world
Chariots in ancient warfare
Cornelius Gallus, poet, orator, politician and first Roman prefect of Egypt
The Real Cleopatra
Ancient Marriage Rings
Roman and Etruscan worship of Amphiaraus
Tympanum: Instrument of Ecstasy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

SYMHC Classics: Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy
Behind the Scenes Minis: Paramount Decrees
The Paramount Decrees: The Court Cases - Pt. 2
The Paramount Decrees: Paramount’s Beginnings - Pt. 1
SYMHC Classics: Alexander Selkirk
Behind the Scenes Minis: Forten and the Lawson Murders
Six Impossible Episodes: There’s a Book About That!
James Forten
SYMHC Classics: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning in Love
SYMHC Classics: Croesus

Intelligent Life

Abandoned in the Amazon: how indigenous Brazilians fought covid-19
Why even the young dye
If you’re happy and you know it...press the button
From plandemic to breadcrumbs: conspiracy-theory slang
Climbing with Erik Weihenmayer
Visors and violence: we are returning to the Middle Ages
October/November 2020
Lather me than you: the joy of soap
Come gather round people: why we risk death to join the crowd
Back to the drive-in

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