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Welcome to e-Storia! This site has been generated to serve as an open forum for accessible history from around the world. I have assembled on the main page recent posts and links of historical interest. Please feel free to peruse the following pages and posts and contact me with your comments and questions. Thank you for visiting and do visit again soon. You can stay up-to-date on all posts by signing up for regular updates via email.

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RSS This Day in History

  • Pope Benedict resigns
  • First NATO Military Action
  • Getty Museum endowed
  • ATF raids Branch Davidian compound
  • Watson and Crick discover chemical structure of DNA
  • Tyler narrowly escapes death on the USS Princeton
  • Congress creates Colorado Territory
  • Final episode of M*A*S*H airs
  • Gorbachev calls for nuclear weapons treaty
  • John Wesley charters first Methodist Church in U.S.

RSS The World Next Week

  • Transition 2021 Series: A Gathering Storm—The Future of U.S.-North Korea Policy
  • Virtual Roundtable: Can Social Bonds Help Save the World?
  • World Economic Update
  • CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event With Ray Takeyh
  • One Year Later: Global Health Lessons From 2020
  • Transition 2021 Series: U.S. Economic Recovery
  • Eliminating Human Trafficking: The Role of the Private Sector
  • What to Worry About in 2021
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With David Malpass
  • Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty—Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons

RSS AbeBooks Blog

  • William Nicholson’s Alphabet Book
  • Three Howard University Yearbooks Featuring Kamala Harris Sell for $1,500
  • The story of Takaya Lone Wolf
  • The most desirable rare book of 2020 – A Wonderful Time by Slim Aarons
  • DreamHaven Books – Minneapolis’ haven for sci-fi, fantasy & horror

RSS Smithsonian History Feed

  • How the Smithsonian Can Help African American Families Research Their Ancestors
  • America's First Black Physician Sought to Heal a Nation's Persistent Illness
  • In a Covid-Affected Washington, D.C. Neighborhood, Black History Is Reinterpreted on a City Block
  • A Brief History of the Invention of the Home Security Alarm
  • The Fever That Struck New York
  • The Tragic Irony of the U.S. Capitol's Peace Monument
  • Looking Back at the Legacy of 'The Great White Hope' and Boxer Jack Johnson
  • Black Soldiers Played an Undeniable but Largely Unheralded Role in Founding the United States
  • The Uphill Battle to Stop Peru From Building a New Airport Near Machu Picchu
  • The Great Canadian Polio Vaccine Heist of 1959

RSS History Today

  • The Edict of Thessalonica
  • Zombies, Cannibals and Werewolves
  • Protest, Power, Play
  • 1771: The Year Britain Lost America?
  • On the Road Again
  • All By Myself
  • Publication of the Futurist Manifesto
  • The Venner Rebellion
  • Madam Butterfly and the Forging of Japanese Identity
  • Litigious Lives

RSS History Today Podcasts

  • Medicine Woman
  • The Crown Lost at Sea
  • The Wars of the Roses: The Queen who Lost Everything
  • Foreign Correspondents in the Soviet Union
  • Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds
  • ‘The Terrible Lioness’
  • Terror on Wall Street
  • The Power of the Royal Mistress
  • The Rise of the Valkyries
  • Henry VIII Meets his Match

RSS Medievalists Blog

  • Astronomical Instruments in the Middle Ages: More than just a timepiece
  • From Vikings to Castles: A Journey to Studying Medieval Scotland, with Kate Buchanan
  • Henry the Young King: Top Star in the Tournament World
  • How can historians use new media to disseminate ideas?, with Merle Eisenberg
  • Historical document details martyrdom of Japanese Christian retainers 400 years ago

RSS In the Middle – Medieval Blog

  • Why the Hate? The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, and Race, Racism, and Premodern Critical Race Studies Today
  • 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

RSS Medieval Hungary

  • The Restoration of the High Altar of Kisszeben
  • In memoriam Zsuzsa Urbach (1933-2020)
  • Mapping Eastern Europe Website Launched
  • Croatia and Hungary. 800 Years of Common Heritage
  • 10 Years of the Medieval Hungary blog

RSS History Extra Podcasts

  • The Roman emperors: everything you wanted to know
  • Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology
  • Crafting historical weapons for Wolf Hall and The Witcher
  • Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh
  • The women who fought back against Hollywood
  • Rivalries and romances: couples that shook up history
  • The Vikings’ global connections
  • The space race: everything you wanted to know
  • Sathnam Sanghera on how modern Britain is shaped by empire
  • The big questions of LGBTQ history

RSS 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

RSS CBC Ideas Podcasts

  • Pt 2: Rethinking Policing
  • Behind the Lines, Part Two
  • BBC Reith Lectures: Mark Carney, Part Three
  • BBC Reith Lectures: Mark Carney, Part Two
  • BBC Reith Lectures: Mark Carney, Part One
  • Beethoven's Scowl
  • The Forever Protest
  • Behind the Lines, Part One
  • The Long Arm of Ayn Rand, Part Two
  • The Long Arm of Ayn Rand, Part One

RSS Council on Foreign Relations

  • Transition 2021 Series: A Gathering Storm—The Future of U.S.-North Korea Policy
  • Virtual Roundtable: Can Social Bonds Help Save the World?
  • World Economic Update
  • CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event With Ray Takeyh
  • One Year Later: Global Health Lessons From 2020
  • Transition 2021 Series: U.S. Economic Recovery
  • Eliminating Human Trafficking: The Role of the Private Sector
  • What to Worry About in 2021
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With David Malpass
  • Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty—Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons

RSS BibliOdyssey

  • Viridarium Novum
  • All Hail Lord Carrington!
  • Military ABC Book
  • Humble Heather
  • Japanese Falconry
  • Sci-Art Pedigree
  • Fiore dei Liberi
  • Peking Opera Figures
  • Schönschreibmeister
  • Folies Bergère

RSS Today’s Document from the National Archives

  • Telegram from Ho Chi Minh to Harry S. Truman

RSS The History Blog

  • Four-wheeled ceremonial chariot found at Pompeii
  • Pompeii fresco restored to glory
  • Ancient Chinese face cream made of beef fat, stalactites
  • Domus with marble “carpet” found in Nîmes
  • Small Viking hoard with huge brooch declared treasure
  • Munch wrote The Scream was “painted by a madman” on The Scream
  • Southern Urals warrior found in Scythian burial mound
  • Celtic business in the front, party in the back
  • Renovation of Seville tapas bar reveals 12th c. bathhouse
  • Millstone with phallus found during roadwork

RSS 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

RSS 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)

RSS 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

RSS Roman Times

  • The transformative myth of Arethusa
  • For the love of Sappho
  • Winged deities of Greco-Roman mythology
  • Aristophanes: Comedian or Social Agitator?
  • Mythical origins of the game of knucklebones in the Mediterranean World
  • The psychological cost of warfare in the ancient world
  • Leda and the Swan: Bestiality in the Ancient World
  • Adrastus and the Seven against Thebes
  • Tales of Telephus
  • Living well in the Roman Empire

RSS Stuff You Missed in History Class

  • SYMHC Classics: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
  • Behind the Scenes Minis: Isadora
  • Isadora Duncan, Part 2
  • Isadora Duncan, Part 1
  • SYMHC Classics: The Nazi Games and Jesse Owens
  • Behind the Scenes Minis: Freedom Summer and Cobb
  • W. Montague Cobb, MD, PhD
  • Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
  • SYMHC Classics: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
  • Behind the Scenes Minis: Smallpox and Cowpox

RSS Intelligent Life

  • What if we’ve forgotten how to socialise?
  • Weapons of mass obstruction: protest symbols, from rubber ducks to pussyhats
  • The barber cutting through vaccine scepticism
  • She was trafficked into a giant brothel. Now she runs it
  • How the iPhone killed the custom ringtone
  • From doomscrolling to zombie-boxes: a guide to screen-time slang
  • The alien hunter of Harvard
  • I’m spending more time than ever with my children. No one is enjoying it
  • Valentine’s Day: how chocolate became the food of love
  • Myanmar: “A coup is worse than covid. I’ve lived through three”

RSS The Victorian Era

  • Guest post: Wife beating in Victorian England …The ‘Rule of Thumb’
  • The history of schooling in Victorian Britain (guest post)
  • The mysterious case of the Foxborough bike racks
  • Take a stroll through a map (sponsored post)
  • The History Of The Bed: From Horse Hair To Now. How Have They Changed?
  • A Pocket of 19th Century Fashion in 21st Century Africa (guest post)
  • Guest post: Women’s Education in 19th century
  • My Inner Victorian
  • Yesterday enchanting today & the first domestic goddess
  • Sailing the world with spices and a monkey puzzle tree…

RSS Ancient Foods

  • Egypt: Archaeologists unearth ancient beer factory in Abydos
  • Geoscientists discover Ancestral Puebloans survived from ice melt in New Mexico lava tubes
  • The Moonshine Era
  • Triangle Trade
  • Happy 2021
  • Desert Wine
  • Forging Wari Alliances
  • A Taste for the Exotic
  • Socializing at the Symposium
  • Before the Pilgrims, Floridians celebrated the ‘real’ first Thanksgiving

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