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This Day in History

Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to U.S. Congress, assumes office
Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain
Argentina invades Falklands
Pope John Paul II dies
President Wilson asks for declaration of war
Hans Christian Andersen is born
Anthrax poisoning kills 62 in Russia
Mob boss John Gotti convicted of murder

BBC News

Coronavirus: US death toll exceeds 5,000
Coronavirus: Spain sees record rise in unemployment amid lockdown
Coronavirus: Australian scientists begin tests of potential vaccines
Daniel Pearl: Pakistan overturns convicted man's death sentence
Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban eating cat and dogs
Coronavirus: How China's using surveillance to tackle outbreak
Coronavirus: Oil prices rise on hopes of a price war truce
EU court rules against three states over refugees
US sends warships to Caribbean to stop illegal drugs
Coronavirus forces postponement of COP26 meeting in Glasgow

New York Times

Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Braces for More Bad Jobs News
A Ventilator Stockpile, With One Hitch: Thousands Do Not Work
Should Doctors Have the Right to Withhold Care From the Sickest Coronavirus Patients?
Coronavirus in Florida: Governor Finally Orders Residents to Stay Home
N.Y.C. Virus Death Toll Nears 1,400 as a Key Date Looms: Live Updates
After Threats, Anthony Fauci to Receive Enhanced Personal Security
Full Coronavirus Coverage
Coronavirus in L.A. County: Can Hospitals Handle a Surge of Cases?
44 Texas Students Have Coronavirus After Spring Break Trip
The Coronavirus Patients Betrayed by Their Own Immune Systems

Time Magazine

China Hits Back at Report That It Hid Coronavirus Numbers
New York’s Coronavirus Death Toll Doubled in 72 Hours
Pakistani Court Overturns Murder Conviction in Death of Journalist Daniel Pearl
The Secret Cost of Google’s Data Centers: Billions of Gallons of Water to Cool Servers
Los Angeles Mayor Urges Residents to Wear Masks When They Leave Home
Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Patriarch, Dies at 85 After Battle With Coronavirus, Son Says
Passengers Reckon With U.S. Coast Guard Guidance That Could Leave Virus-Stricken Cruise Ships At Sea ‘Indefinitely’
Fountains of Wayne and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Musician Adam Schlesinger Dies From Coronavirus
Engineer Intentionally Derails L.A. Train Near U.S. Navy Hospital Ship: Feds
Georgia Sen. Loeffler Faces More Scrutiny Over Stock Transactions Seemingly Related to Coronavirus

Memorial Fund

Memorial Fund

Reuters News

Top EU court says eastern states broke law by refusing to host refugees
Greece quarantines camp after migrants test coronavirus positive
Under pressure, British PM vows 'massive' coronavirus tests increase
Malaysia reports 208 new coronavirus cases, total over 3,000
Indonesia's coronavirus infection rises to 1,790: official

WSJ World News

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The World Next Week

Conference Call: President Trump’s Trip to India
Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations: Protecting Our Children’s Future
Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan
An Inside Look at the Middle East Peace Process: Screening and Discussion of "The Human Factor"
Freedom of Expression in Crimea: Voices From Ukraine
What Is a Moral Foreign Policy?
What's Next for U.S. Policy in China?
Arthur Ross Book Award: "These Truths–A History of the United States"
C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Richard Clarida
What to Worry About in 2020

AbeBooks Blog

Women in Work: Lisa Unger Baskin’s Collection
25 Out-of-Print Books That Were Used Bestsellers in 2019
Oak tobacco box carved from Brontës’ church sells for $1,500
Collecting books on rockets & spaceflight
Podcast interview: Doris Moskowitz from Moe’s Books

Smithsonian History Feed

How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived
Native Women Artists Reclaim Their Narrative
Crowdsourcing Project Aims to Document the Many U.S. Places Where Women Have Made History
Five New Nonfiction Books to Read While You're Stuck at Home
Covering COVID-19
Shutting Down Hawai‘i: A Historical Perspective on Epidemics in the Islands
The Pioneering Health Officer Who Saved Portland From the Plague
Who Was Alexander von Humboldt?
The Suffragist With a Passion for Saving Charleston's Historic Architecture
This Homemade Flag From the '70s Signals the Beginning of the Environmental Movement

The New Yorker

Is It Too Late to Prevent Mass Unemployment Owing to the Coronavirus?
A New Study Questions the Effectiveness of a Potential “Game Changer” Against the Coronavirus
Trump Practicing Distancing from All His Prior Statements About the Coronavirus
In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, Trump’s Close Ally, Dangerously Downplays the Coronavirus Risk
A Medical Historian on Why We Must Stay the Course in Fighting the Coronavirus
Alice Notley and the Art of Not Giving a Damn
How COVID-19 Will Hit India
What to Stream: The 1978 Film That Inspired Robert Redford to Found Sundance
Wrong Ways to Meditate
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 1st

History Today

April Quiz
The Sauce of the Middle Ages
White Gold
Mind Your Language
The Communist’s Holiday
On the Spot: Catherine Fletcher
The Combat of the Thirty
Kingdoms Come Apart
The Rights of France
Pause for Thought

History Today Podcasts

The Rights of France
Soviet Super Sniper
Sexual Eeling
Before the Mayflower
The FGM Scandal that Shocked Victorian London
Trailer: A New Podcast Series from History Today
A History of Now
A discussion about Mein Kampf
Tibet's Secret Temple
Day of the Dead

Medievalists Blog

Virtual Museum: Walters Art Museum Announces New Digital Engagement Efforts
Medieval Video Games with Alicia McKenzie
Medieval Geopolitics: The English Military Revolution
Bastards and The Anarchy
The Black Death and the Hundred Years’ War

In the Middle – Medieval Blog

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
drop everything and read this now: "BlacKKKShakespearean: A Call to Action for Medieval and Early Modern Studies"

Medieval Hungary

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
Exhibition on Medieval Towns in Magdeburg

History Extra Podcasts

Okinawa: the battle and the bomb
Women at war
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Normans, but were afraid to ask
A history of celebrity
Russia’s musical journeys
Blitz spirit
Shakespeare and America
News in the Middle Ages
Coronavirus: a historical perspective
Wales’s turbulent 20th century

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

Machines of Chance: How casino culture plays with us
The Shakespeare Conspiracy
Sailing Alone Around The World
CBC Massey Lecture # 2: The Mating Game | Vancouver
CBC Massey Lecture # 5: Shifting Power | Toronto
CBC Massey Lecture # 4: When the Patriarchy Meets the Matriarchy | Montreal
CBC Massey Lecture # 3: A Holy Paradox | Fredericton
CBC Massey Lecture # 1: In the Beginning(s) | Whitehorse
The Pulpit, Power and Politics: Evangelicalism's thumbprint on America
Maoism: A Story of its History and Revival

Council on Foreign Relations

Conference Call: President Trump’s Trip to India
Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations: Protecting Our Children’s Future
Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan
An Inside Look at the Middle East Peace Process: Screening and Discussion of "The Human Factor"
Freedom of Expression in Crimea: Voices From Ukraine
What Is a Moral Foreign Policy?
What's Next for U.S. Policy in China?
Arthur Ross Book Award: "These Truths–A History of the United States"
C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Richard Clarida
What to Worry About in 2020

A Don’s Life

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Today’s Document from the National Archives

Wilson's Declaration of War Message

The History Blog

Van Gogh painting stolen on his birthday
Roman silver left behind by Vandals found in Poland
It’s 10 o’clock in Lausanne and all is not well
Bronze Age warrior toolkit found at battlefield site
8-foot mammoth tusk found in Bavaria
Polo donkey bones found in Tang Dynasty noblewoman’s tomb
Neanderthal surf and turf
Care for a little ginger beer with your lead?
New date for dugout canoe
Tour the Winchester Mystery House

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

Women Rule during Women's History Month
The First Women in the Theatre - Elizabeth Knepp (By author Deborah Swift)
Sonora Webster Carver - Horse Diving
A Top 35 Historical Book Blog
The School of Venus or the Ladies Delight Reduced into Rules of Practice
Masks of 18th Century Venetian Women
Who was Sultana Nurbanu?
Hoyden of the Week
Scandalous Bad Girl - Alice Caush
Hoyden of the Week

Roman Times

Review: Army of the Roman Emperors: Archaeology and History by Thomas Fischer
Caesar's Ancient World Alexa Skill Now Illustrated!
New "Ancient Wisdom" Alexa skill available now!
Dr. J LED mini-projector provides economical solution to history presentations
Review: The Middle Ages in 50 Objects by Gertsman and Rosenwein
Review: Onslaught by Anthony Riches
Review: A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity by Keith Hopkins
Time Travel Rome Mobil App: The Entire Roman Empire In Your Pocket!
Julius Caesar Reborn!!!
Review: The Throne of Caesar by Steven Saylor

Stuff You Missed in History Class

Ida Lewis, Lighthouse Keeper
Covid-19: Living Through Historically Significant Times
SYMHC Classics: The Flu Epidemic of 1918
Behind the Scenes Minis: Pettenkofer and Poison
Poison Control: A History
Max von Pettenkofer’s Anticontagionism
SYMHC Classics: Tagore, Erstwhile Knight
Behind the Scenes Minis: Shortest War and Lady Baseball
Offbeat History: The Crash at Crush and Other Train Wreck Spectacles
Offbeat History: Marchesa Luisa Casati

Intelligent Life

Coronavirus calling
Lockdown love stories: how to date at a distance
Coronavirus etiquette: greeting in the age of social distance
Trapped in Iran: Farsi translation
Life in Moria, Europe’s refugee city
My journey to the heart of the great British expo
The eight-year-old rapper making a mark in Uganda
A mega resort on the horizon, a glacier on the brink
The friendly Mr Wu
The rise of PTSD

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