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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

  • Ranger 7 photographs moon
  • Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, dies
  • Labor leader Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing
  • Hurricane sinks Spanish treasure ships
  • Marquis de Lafayette becomes a major-general without pay
  • Third Battle of Ypres begins in Flanders
  • Preparations for the Final Solution begin

RSS The World Next Week

  • A Conversation With Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
  • Term Member Virtual Meeting: The Future of E-Mobility
  • Virtual Roundtable: Was Jimmy Carter a Successful Foreign Policy President?
  • Higher Education Webinar: Campus Sustainability and Climate Change Mitigation
  • The Conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray Region
  • State and Local Officials Webinar: Foreign Policy on the Home Front
  • CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event: "Awakening—#MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights"
  • The Origins of COVID-19: Implications for U.S.-China Relations
  • Home and Abroad Series Public Forum: U.S. Immigration Policy
  • Virtual Roundtable: The Rise of Political Partisanship

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

  • The Incredible Story of Lesbian Activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
  • Master Crosswords, Learn Embroidery, Visit Venice or Explore Copper Canyon, Mexico
  • This Property Contract Sheds New Light on James Smithson's Gift to the Smithsonian
  • How Wheaties Became the 'Breakfast of Champions'
  • A History of Gymnastics, From Ancient Greece to Tokyo 2020
  • This Graphic Artist's Olympic Pictograms Changed Urban Design Forever
  • The History of the World's First Cruise Ship Built Solely for Luxurious Travel
  • The Tokyo Summer Olympics: Smithsonian's Guide to the Games
  • When Claims of 'Discoveries' in the Amazon Ring False
  • For 60 Years, Indigenous Alaskans Have Hosted Their Own Olympics

RSS History Today

  • Marketing the Menace
  • The Nazis Enter History
  • The Fall of Tenochtitlan
  • Luther & Co.
  • The Murder of an Emperor
  • Revolutionary Cut Short
  • Facing the Terror: a witness to the French Revolution
  • Greek Myths
  • The New Tourists
  • Rebels in Rubber Soles

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

  • Canterbury Cathedral’s windows date back to 12th century, study suggests
  • If you could meet and interview one person from Byzantine history, who would it be and why?, Part 2 with Paroma Chatterjee and Merle Eisenberg
  • Medieval Movie Review: The Green Knight
  • The Beginnings of England with Marc Morris
  • Remains of 800-year old bridge discovered in England

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

  • In memoriam Ernő Marosi (1940–2021)
  • Two New Exhibitions on Monastic History at the Hungarian National Museum
  • An Overview of the Excavations of Pétermonostora near Bugac
  • The Restoration of the High Altar of Kisszeben
  • In memoriam Zsuzsa Urbach (1933-2020)

RSS History Extra Podcasts

  • George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch
  • A hard-fought history of trespass
  • Antwerp: city of innovation & intrigue
  • How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan
  • Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?
  • Olympic history: everything you wanted to know
  • Why were the Georgians fixated with fatness?
  • How assassinations have changed history
  • The slave trade: a family history
  • The piano: a musical 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

  • Common Good | Commanding Hope: Thomas Homer-Dixon
  • Separated at Rebirth: Science and Religion
  • In Defence of Domestic Workers: Adelle Blackett
  • The 99% Invisible City: Roman Mars
  • BBC Reith Lectures: Mark Carney, Part Three
  • BBC Reith Lectures: Mark Carney, Part Two
  • BBC Reith Lectures: Mark Carney, Part One
  • The Rising Star of Judith Shklar, the skeptical liberal
  • Notes From Utopia: The Arab Spring 10 years on
  • The Buffalo, Part Three

RSS Council on Foreign Relations

  • A Conversation With Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
  • Term Member Virtual Meeting: The Future of E-Mobility
  • Virtual Roundtable: Was Jimmy Carter a Successful Foreign Policy President?
  • Higher Education Webinar: Campus Sustainability and Climate Change Mitigation
  • The Conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray Region
  • State and Local Officials Webinar: Foreign Policy on the Home Front
  • CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event: "Awakening—#MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights"
  • The Origins of COVID-19: Implications for U.S.-China Relations
  • Home and Abroad Series Public Forum: U.S. Immigration Policy
  • Virtual Roundtable: The Rise of Political Partisanship

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

  • Listening to a Tape from Vietnam

RSS The History Blog

  • Cinerary remains of Bronze Age woman, twins found in urn
  • Virtual Mesopotamian civilization
  • Roman canal, road emerge as Limes gets UNESCO World Heritage status
  • Stained glass Nathan witnessed Becket’s murder
  • Monumental platform found in Selinunte
  • 11-inch phallus, oldest pistachio found in Yorkshire
  • Longest cuneiform inscription in Saudi Arabia discovered
  • Man pleads guilty to 1971 theft of Revolutionary War flintlock rifle
  • Unique Roman sarcophagus with interior reliefs conserved
  • Ancient military vessel found in Egyptian sunken city

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

  • Sirma voivode - A woman warrior who led a mountain gang while dressed as a man
  • Sarah Bordetsky - Forget Russia
  • Mary Perkins Olmstead - Landscape of a Marriage
  • 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

RSS Roman Times

  • The Romanization of northwest Iberia (modern Portugal)
  • Hannibal's Secret Weapons
  • Eudaimonia and the corruption of excess
  • Deciphering Iconography of a late Classical Period Etruscan sarcophagus
  • Red-figured fish plates of the 5th century BCE
  • Sarmatians: Descendants of the Amazons?
  • Domus del Chirurgo (House of the Surgeon) in Rimini, Italy
  • Nomads of the Golden Mountains of Altai
  • The horse: A perfect gift to a Persian (or Parthian)
  • The transformative shrew in Greco-Roman-Egyptian mythology

RSS Stuff You Missed in History Class

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RSS Intelligent Life

  • August/September 2021
  • “The illusion of citizenship has gone”: Israel’s Arabs look to the future
  • My Nextdoor neighbours from hell
  • My covid epiphany: a year of doing nothing changed everything
  • Perfection or perversion? Why Hawaiian pizza is the polarising issue of our times
  • How the pandemic made fonts friendlier
  • June/July 2021
  • I can’t wait to get back to normal. How long before I’m bored?
  • “I've mortally offended Putin by surviving”: why Alexei Navalny keeps fighting
  • Out of oxygen, out of time: covid-19 suffocates Kolkata

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

  • Turns out developing a taste for carbs wasn’t a bad thing
  • The Oldest Wine in Europe Was Just Discovered in Greece
  • 10,000-year-old DNA pens the first tales of the earliest domesticated goats
  • New research shows that Siberian Neanderthals ate both plants and animals
  • Archaeologists Have Found Prehistoric Rock Structures Under the Great Lakes.
  • Ancient undersea middens offer clues
  • Earth Notes: Chaco Chocolate
  • Worth One’s Salt
  • A forest on caffeine’? How coffee can help forests grow faster
  • Ancient European Hunters Carved Human Bones Into Weapons

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