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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

  • Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act into law
  • Barry Bonds hits 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on MLB list
  • Terrorists attack Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan
  • Palestine Liberation Organization is founded
  • First blood of the French and Indian War
  • Ethiopian capital falls to rebels, ending 17 years of Marxist rule
  • Appeal for Amnesty campaign launches
  • U.S. troops abandon “Hamburger Hill”
  • Baseball owners allow Dodgers and Giants to move
  • John Steinbeck publishes "Tortilla Flat"

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

  • A Century Ago, the Lincoln Memorial's Dedication Underscored the Nation's Racial Divide
  • What Did the Suffragists Really Think About Abortion?
  • Escape From the Gilded Cage
  • The Holocaust-Era Comic That Brought Americans Into the Nazi Gas Chambers
  • Shirley Temple Black's Remarkable Second Act as a Diplomat
  • An Exclusive Preview of the New World War I Memorial
  • The Civil War Drastically Reshaped How Americans Deal With Death. Will the Pandemic?
  • What Makes the Library of Congress a Monument to Democracy
  • The Colorful History of Haribo Goldbears, the World's First Gummy Bears
  • Did an Enslaved Woman Try to Warn the Americans of Benedict Arnold's Treason?

RSS History Today

  • Dire Straits
  • A Musical Riot
  • Matters of Importance
  • The Underground Library
  • The Clown that Went out of Fashion
  • The Other 300
  • War Orgasms
  • France’s Kyivan Queen
  • The Hebrew Insurgency
  • The Great Tom Fuller

RSS History Today Podcasts

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RSS Medievalists Blog

  • Harald Hardrada: Against the Bulgarians
  • What do we mean by “Byzantine literature”?, with Stratis Papaioannou
  • The Viking and the Sea
  • New archaeological work begins at Leicester Cathedral
  • We all eat white bread because of 7th-century missionaries to England

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

  • Alice Roberts on unearthing the Romans, Vikings & Anglo-Saxons
  • The Black Death | 5. death, sin & spirituality
  • Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution
  • Eliza Acton: Britain’s first modern cookery writer
  • The BBC at 100: change & innovation in 60s Britain
  • WW2’s desert war: everything you wanted to know
  • Christine de Pizan: from medieval writer to feminist icon
  • The Black Death | 4. medieval medical thinking
  • A legacy of inequality: the economic impact of empire
  • Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War

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

  • Don't Look Back: The Myth of Orpheus
  • Britt Wray on Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
  • The Rise and Fall and Rise of Richard Wright
  • Artemisia Gentileschi: What a Woman Can Do
  • An Ode to Failure
  • Edward Yong: The Art of Science Journalism
  • Body Language | Olivia Laing: Visions of the Free Body
  • Body Language | The Problem of Too Much Body
  • Body Language | Beyond Ugly: A documentary
  • Body Language | Face to Face in an Uncertain World

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

  • A Moment of Silence for Fallen Comrades

RSS The History Blog

  • Lucky 13th phallus found at Vindolanda
  • Globetrotting Mycenaean gold ring returns home
  • Looted Viking hoard returns to Herefordshire
  • Late Roman couple’s funerary mosaic restored
  • Bedlam plague pit victims did not die in Great Plague
  • Como Treasure: 1,000 gold coins in a cooking pot
  • Mary, Queen of Scots’ silver casket of doom
  • Indigenous graves found on Taiwan campus
  • Gummi bears turn 100 years old
  • Young Knight shines again in complex landscape

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

  • 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
  • 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

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

  • 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
  • Research ‘final nail in the coffin’ of Paranthropus as hard object feeders

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