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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

  • Gatorade invented at University of Florida
  • President Trump announces he and the first lady tested positive for COVID-19
  • Warsaw Uprising ends
  • Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first Black Supreme Court justice
  • Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS
  • Operation Typhoon is launched
  • Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
  • First shots of the Texas Revolution fired in the Battle of Gonzales
  • Gunman kills five students at Amish school
  • The Cold War comes to Africa, as Guinea gains its independence

RSS The World Next Week

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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

  • Inside the Disneyland of Graveyards
  • Two Hundred Years Ago, the Rosetta Stone Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Egypt
  • Who Was the Real Marilyn Monroe?
  • The Little-Known Story of the Women Who Stood Up to General Motors and Demanded Equal Pay
  • The Feminist Inspiration Behind 'Don't Worry Darling'
  • The Noble Fury of Samuel Adams
  • How Nomads Shaped Centuries of Civilization
  • Why Was America So Reluctant to Take Action on the Holocaust?
  • The Real Warriors Behind 'The Woman King'
  • The Many Myths of Catherine de' Medici

RSS History Today

  • ‘Contradiction on Stilts’
  • Military State
  • Gone But Not Forgotten
  • The Great Alpaca Heist
  • The Menorah
  • Turning on the Waterworks
  • A Century of Fascism
  • Cuban Missile Crisis: the View from Havana
  • Written in Heraldry
  • Death of a Master Forger

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

  • The Mongol Khans and Alcohol
  • Prince Oleg and his Fateful Steed: A Story from Medieval Rus’
  • Book of the Month: The Battle at the Halfway Oak and The Spanish Count
  • Criminal Cases in Late Medieval Scotland, with Chelsea Larsson
  • Medieval Movie Review: The Court Jester

RSS In the Middle – Medieval Blog

  • The Medieval Modern and Carrying on through Grief
  • Speculum Call for Paper Proposals: "Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages"
  • 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

RSS Medieval Hungary

  • The Age of the Árpád Dynasty - The missed opportunity of the Székesfehérvár exhibition
  • Restoration of the Medieval Church of Sóly
  • Medieval Manuscripts in Esztergom
  • In memoriam László Beke (1944-2022)
  • Medieval Charters from the Batthyány Family Archives enter the National Archives

RSS History Extra Podcasts

  • The Knights Templar: everything you wanted to know
  • Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China
  • What can one woman reveal about Jewish life in medieval England?
  • The Napoleon of Fleet Street
  • Should mummies be on display?
  • 15 minutes of fame: Hannah Humphrey, entrepreneurial Georgian printseller
  • The CIA: everything you wanted to know
  • The end of Roman Britain: families, ancestors and DNA
  • Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris
  • Tutankhamun | 7. the contested legacy of an icon

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

  • Exposing the Truth: Journalism's Role in Reconciliation
  • The New World Disorder | The Rise of the Strongman
  • The New World Disorder | The End of America
  • The New World Disorder | The Nature of Nationalism
  • The New World Disorder | The Future of Democracy
  • Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You, Part Two
  • Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You, Part One
  • IDEAS from the Trenches: The Conspiracy Practice
  • Women and War: Stories from the other front
  • Worst Marriage Ever: The Story of Jason and Medea

RSS Council on Foreign Relations

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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

  • Robert E. Lee's Amnesty Oath

RSS The History Blog

  • Roman “refrigerator” found in Bulgaria
  • Norway’s National Museum acquires rare Artemisia Gentileschi painting
  • Unique Greek ritual wash-basin unearthed
  • Infant jar burial found in ancient Anemurium
  • Mosaic found in caliph’s palace
  • Roman anchor retrieved from North Sea
  • After 10 years, the Fenland bog oak table
  • Secrets of Vermeer’s Milkmaid revealed
  • 3,000-year-old canoe recovered from Wisconsin lake
  • Unique Neolithic mass grave found in Slovakia

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

  • Trekking Through History - An exciting new game by Underdog Games
  • Alice Arden
  • Anna Vieti - Pictures of Anna - A Novel by Sam Martin
  • Susanna Hall (Shakespeare's eldest daughter)
  • 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

RSS Roman Times

  • Part 2 of the 5th 30 minute segment of the Virtual Pompeii Walk recorded by ProWalk Tours
  • Part 1 of the 5th 30-minute segment of the ProWalk Tours Virtual Pompeii Walk
  • Part 2 of the 4th 30 minute segment of the "Pompeii Virtual Walk" video
  • Pompeii Virtual Walk: Part 1 of the 4th 30-minute segment
  • Virtual Pompeii Walking Tour - 3rd 30 minute segment
  • Pompeii Walk - the 2nd 30 minutes: On the way to The Lupanar (The Brothel)
  • Pompeii Walk - 1st 30 minutes
  • Disability and the politics of "Divine Disfavor" in the Greco-Roman world
  • The Getae: The noblest and the just of the Thracian tribes (according to Herodotus)
  • The Syncretization of Zeus Ammon and the Oracle of Siwa

RSS Stuff You Missed in History Class

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RSS Intelligent Life

  • October/November 2021
  • Pitching guidelines
  • 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?

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

  • Newly found Chinese artifacts illuminate mysterious ancient kingdom 
  • Early modern human from Southeast Asia adapted to a rainforest environment 
  • Drinking wine in ancient Greece was a divine but demanding business 
  • The Annual Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
  • Ancient poop shows people in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese up to 2,700 years ago 
  • Research delves into role of turkeys to Ancestral Pueblo peoples 
  • Archaeologists explore culinary culture of Lydians with dental tools 
  • A Neanderthal hunting camp in the center of the Iberian Peninsula
  • Study shows evidence of beer drinking 9,000 years ago in Southern China
  • Ancient Roman vacationers consumed gobs of olive oil and fish, volcano victims reveal

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