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Welcome to eStoria! 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.

RSS This Day in History

  • Medal of Honor created
  • Geraldine Ferraro named vice presidential candidate
  • North Vietnam urged to treat U.S. POWs better
  • First Marine to receive Medal of Honor for action in Vietnam is killed
  • Eisenhower takes first presidential ride in a helicopter
  • Wild Bill Hickok’s first gunfight
  • Disco is dealt death blow by fans of the Chicago White Sox
  • Geoffrey Chaucer is named chief clerk by Richard II
  • The Moors Murderers begin their killing spree
  • Confederacy signs treaties with Native Americans

RSS BBC News

  • Roger Stone: Robert Mueller defends indictment over Russia probe
  • Coronavirus: Donald Trump finally wears mask in public
  • Mali's President Keïta dissolves constitutional court amid unrest
  • Poland election: Clash of ideals as voters choose head of state
  • Coronavirus: Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan tests positive
  • Coronavirus: Thousands protest in Israel over handling of economy
  • Fox News: Tucker Carlson writer Blake Neff resigns over racist messages
  • Srebrenica: Bosnia marks 25 years since massacre
  • Walt Disney World reopens in Florida amid Covid-19 surge
  • Hagia Sophia: World Council of Churches appeals to Turkey on mosque decision

RSS New York Times

  • How to Reopen Schools: What Science and Other Countries Teach Us
  • What’s the Value of Harvard Without a Campus?
  • Live Coronavirus News: Trump Wears Mask Publicly for First Time
  • Trump’s Clemency Came After Displays of Loyalty by Stone
  • In Rare Public Comments, Mueller Defends Prosecution of Roger Stone
  • Presidential Pardons and Commutations, From Whiskey Rebellion to Roger Stone
  • Could This City Hold the Key to the Future of Policing in America?
  • A W.N.B.A. Owner Clashes With Players on Protests
  • Filing Your Taxes Deadline: Questions and Answers for July 15th
  • Stocks Generate Big Gains and Bigger Questions

RSS Time Magazine

  • ‘He Remains a Convicted Felon’: Mueller Defends Russia Probe as Trump Commutes Roger Stone’s Prison Sentence
  • President Trump Wears Face Mask in Public for First Time During Pandemic
  • As Confederate Statues Fall in the U.S., Puerto Rico Confronts Spain’s Painful Legacy
  • Police Search Mansion of Viral St. Louis Couple Who Pointed Guns at Protesters
  • Justice Department Seeks to Overturn Order Halting First Federal Execution in Nearly 20 Years
  • Three Weeks After Trump’s Tulsa Rally, Oklahoma Reports Record High COVID-19 Numbers
  • Coronavirus Cases Spike in South Africa and India, Exposing Inequalities in Virus Treatment
  • John Hopkins University Sues to Defend International Students Against Trump Administration Decision
  • After Months of Decline, U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Surge in the South and West
  • Amid Calls for Diversity, Biden Tops Trump on People of Color in Senior Campaign Staff

Memorial Fund

Memorial Fund

RSS Reuters News

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RSS WSJ World News

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RSS The World Next Week

  • Virtual Meeting: The Insurrection Act and the Future of Civil-Military Relations
  • Virtual Meeting: CFR Master Class Series With Stephen Sestanovich
  • Virtual Meeting: A Conversation With ICC President Chile Eboe-Osuji
  • Virtual Meeting Dedicated to Martin Feldstein: World Economic Update
  • Virtual Roundtable: International Trade and Women’s Rights
  • Virtual Meeting: CFR Master Class Series With Amy Jaffe
  • Virtual Meeting: Lessons Learned With David Cote
  • Virtual Meeting: CFR Master Class Series With Alice Hill
  • Virtual Roundtable: Russian Arms Control Compliance: A Report Card, 1984-2020
  • Virtual Meeting: CFR Master Class Series With James M. Lindsay

RSS AbeBooks Blog

  • 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
  • Women in Work: Lisa Unger Baskin’s Collection
  • 25 Out-of-Print Books That Were Used Bestsellers in 2019

RSS Smithsonian History Feed

  • An Uncrowned Tudor Queen, the Science of Skin and Other New Books to Read
  • Ending the Use of Racist Mascots and Images
  • In St. Louis, History and Nostalgia Battle It Out
  • Why Is Ivory So Precious? And More Questions From Our Readers
  • How a Black Fireman Brought a Pole Into the Firehouse
  • Make Thomas Jefferson's Recipe for Ice Cream
  • How the Ice Cream Truck Made Summer Cool
  • What Today's Indigenous Potters Are Learning from Ancient Chocolate-Drinking Jars
  • How Northern Publishers Cashed In on Fundraising for Confederate Monuments
  • Mary McLeod Bethune Was at the Vanguard of More Than 50 Years of Black Progress

RSS The New Yorker

  • Summer Traditions: COVID-19 Edition
  • The Halted Progress of Criminal-Justice Reform
  • “Many a Little Makes,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
  • The Cryptic Crossword: No. 37
  • Sunday Reading: Summer Sojourns
  • Sarah Shun-lien Bynum on Friendship and Class
  • How to Plan a Space Mission
  • What Do College Students Think of Their Schools’ Reopening Plans?
  • HAIM Are Talking About Everything They Weren’t Talking About Before
  • The Roger Stone Case Shows Why Trump Is Worse Than Nixon

RSS History Today

  • On the Spot: David Carpenter
  • Isle of Dogs
  • A Modern Martyr
  • Sweet Dreams
  • The Rules of Drinking
  • July Quiz
  • Pandemics: Now and Then
  • The Liberator’s Saviour is ‘Buried’
  • The Flood
  • The Cost of Cleanliness

RSS History Today Podcasts

  • 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
  • The State of Myanmar
  • What can History tell us about Epidemics?
  • The Rights of France
  • Soviet Super Sniper

RSS Medievalists Blog

  • Medieval Scandinavia: The Rise and Fall of the Danish Kingdom
  • Engaging the Crusades
  • Hagia Sophia to be a mosque again, court rules
  • Book of the Month Club: Formal Combats in the Fourteenth Century
  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms

RSS 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

RSS 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

RSS History Extra Podcasts

  • Everything you ever wanted to know about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but were afraid to ask
  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
  • Museums and colonialism
  • David Abulafia on The Boundless Sea
  • California’s century of change
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about the Scottish Wars of Independence, but were afraid to ask
  • The Picts
  • Women and the Crusades
  • World War Two: the challenge of commemoration
  • A history of pandemics: from Spanish Flu to Covid-19

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

  • The Unconventional Diplomat: Standing Up For Principles
  • The Unconventional Diplomat: Breaking The Rules
  • Here Comes Trouble: How to worry sensibly in the 21st Century
  • Just don't say his name: the modern left on Karl Marx's place in politics
  • We must recapture the lost 'art' of scripture: Karen Armstrong
  • Da Vinci's Celibacy
  • Monster buff Leonardo da Vinci would have loved Halloween
  • Slavery's long shadow: The impact of 200 years enslavement in Canada
  • The Travels of Mirza Saleh Shirazi
  • The Flapper and the Modern Girl

RSS Council on Foreign Relations

  • Virtual Meeting: The Insurrection Act and the Future of Civil-Military Relations
  • Virtual Meeting: CFR Master Class Series With Stephen Sestanovich
  • Virtual Meeting: A Conversation With ICC President Chile Eboe-Osuji
  • Virtual Meeting Dedicated to Martin Feldstein: World Economic Update
  • Virtual Roundtable: International Trade and Women’s Rights
  • Virtual Meeting: CFR Master Class Series With Amy Jaffe
  • Virtual Meeting: Lessons Learned With David Cote
  • Virtual Meeting: CFR Master Class Series With Alice Hill
  • Virtual Roundtable: Russian Arms Control Compliance: A Report Card, 1984-2020
  • Virtual Meeting: CFR Master Class Series With James M. Lindsay

RSS A Don’s Life

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RSS Today’s Document from the National Archives

  • Supplemental Act of July 12, 1862

RSS The History Blog

  • Earliest evidence of horsemanship found
  • Power X-ray to be turned on Rooswijk finds
  • 1,000-year-old pet cat oldest on the Silk Road
  • Cerne Abbas Giant is a youngster
  • Digital pilgrimage to Canterbury ca. 1408
  • Morse Museum acquires Louis Comfort Tiffany iron fireplace hood
  • Massive 10th c. wall points to first Polish capital
  • Paleoindian ocher mine found in underwater cave in Mexico
  • Export barred for Roman dogs after wellhead gets away
  • Jakob and Elisabeth reunited after 150 years

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

  • Tituba - The First Witch of Salem
  • Mary De Morgan - A Writer of Fairy Tales
  • Suffragettes - Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflins
  • China Mary - The Woman who ran "The Town Too Tough to Die"
  • 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

RSS Roman Times

  • Memento Mori in the Boscoreale Treasure
  • All things take place by change
  • The cornucopia in Greco-Roman mythology
  • Roman opponents: The Parthians
  • Roman gaming and learning not to sweat the small stuff
  • King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene: Meeting the Challenges of a Buffer Kingdom
  • Sirens in ancient mythology and beyond
  • First impressions of Pompeii
  • The provenance of skeletal remains in Pompeii
  • Books That Matter: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

RSS Stuff You Missed in History Class

  • SYMHC Classics: Phillis Wheatley
  • Behind the Scenes Minis: Bonsai and Flexner
  • Abraham Flexner and the Flexner Report
  • A Brief History of Bonsai
  • SYMHC Classics: Robert Smalls - From Contraband to Congress
  • Behind the Scenes Minis: Q&A and the Myth of Irish Slaves
  • Why No One Talks About 'The Irish Slaves'
  • SYMHC: Q & A
  • SYMHC Classics: The Incredible Escape of Robert Smalls
  • Behind the Scenes Minis: H.L. Hunley and Gospel Blues

RSS Intelligent Life

  • Sex, anger, lust, danger: the semiotics of scarlet
  • Will virtual-reality gyms let us work out in the pandemic?
  • The United Nations of Uniqlo
  • The secret economics of a VIP party
  • How to go on holiday in a pandemic
  • The internet, mon amour
  • Why global crises are the mother of invention
  • How stargazing could save your life
  • How Charlie Chaplin put the little guy on the big screen
  • Do you know a good... plant stylist?

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