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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

  • George W. Bush describes Iraq, Iran and North Korea as "axis of evil"
  • "Roots" premieres on television
  • Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter sign accords
  • King George III dies
  • William McKinley, first U.S. president to ride in a car, is born
  • U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects first members
  • German lieutenant Erwin Rommel leads daring mission in France
  • Peter, Paul and Mary sign their first recording contract
  • “The Raven” is published
  • Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward marry

RSS The World Next Week

  • NY Book Launch: The Bill of Obligations by Richard Haass
  • Higher Education Webinar: Disability Inclusion on Campus and in International Affairs
  • Academic Webinar: Global Ramifications of the War in Ukraine
  • Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: The Protests in Iran
  • A Conversation With U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall
  • What to Worry About in 2023
  • Virtual Roundtable: Clearing the Air on Air Pollution
  • Social Justice Webinar: Healthcare Equity and Accessibility Around the World
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Katherine Tai
  • Deadly Droughts: Adapting to a Drier World

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

  • Colette Revolutionized French Literature With Her Depictions of Female Desire
  • The Indigenous Americans Who Visited Europe
  • When Lyndon B. Johnson Chose the Middle Ground on Civil Rights—and Disappointed Everyone
  • Once a Floating Speakeasy, This Shipwreck Tells a Tale of Bullets and Booze
  • Why the Union Army Had So Many Boy Soldiers
  • The Tudor Roots of Modern Billionaires' Philanthropy
  • How a New York Tabloid Captured the First Photo of an Execution by the Electric Chair
  • Who Was Yasuke, Japan's First Black Samurai?
  • The Doctor and the Confederate
  • A New Discovery Puts Panama as the Site of the First Successful Slave Rebellion

RSS History Today

  • Horror for Horror
  • Ghosts of Java
  • The ‘Lost’ Emperor?
  • The Land Between Rivers
  • Meet you There
  • Battle of Nsamankow
  • Discovery Channels
  • Secrets of the Silk Road
  • The Catholic Conundrum
  • The Nazi Spider in the Spanish Press

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 Alhambra is now the World’s Instagrammable Castle
  • New Medieval Books: A Constellation of Authority: Castilian Bishops and the Secular Church During the Reign of Alfonso VIII
  • The Medieval Arab Predecessors of Champollion
  • The Kidnapping of Baby Bonafilla: Jewish guardianship, conversion, and mixed families in the aftermath of 1391 in Girona
  • Rebels and Renegades: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374) and the Christians of Medieval Granada

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 Island - Saint Margaret and the Dominicans (new exhibition in Budapest)
  • The oldest dated roof structure in Transylvania and some 14th-century frescoes at Magyarvista
  • The Age of the Árpád Dynasty - The missed opportunity of the Székesfehérvár exhibition
  • Restoration of the Medieval Church of Sóly
  • Medieval Manuscripts in Esztergom

RSS History Extra Podcasts

  • Railway history: everything you wanted to know
  • Forgotten histories of the Holocaust
  • An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris
  • Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies
  • A journey along the Iron Curtain
  • Fleeing revolution: Russians exiles in Paris
  • The history of atheism: everything you wanted to know
  • How FDR transformed the US presidency
  • Indigenous American travellers in Europe
  • The PoWs who survived Nagasaki

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 Old Stone Age in the Western Hemisphere
  • What Money Can't Buy: Michael Sandel
  • Muhammad Iqbal: one of the greatest South Asian thinkers of the 20th century
  • Geography of Hope: Wallace Stegner and the Disappearing West
  • Transforming Justice, Part 2: Angela Davis, Fania Davis and Margaret Burnham
  • Eugenic thinking has never gone away
  • Skin Hunger: Exploring Disembodied Touch in Healthcare Practitioners
  • An Ode to Failure
  • Return of the Guillotine
  • Transforming Justice, Part 1: Angela Davis, Fania Davis and Margaret Burnham

RSS Council on Foreign Relations

  • NY Book Launch: The Bill of Obligations by Richard Haass
  • Higher Education Webinar: Disability Inclusion on Campus and in International Affairs
  • Academic Webinar: Global Ramifications of the War in Ukraine
  • Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: The Protests in Iran
  • A Conversation With U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall
  • What to Worry About in 2023
  • Virtual Roundtable: Clearing the Air on Air Pollution
  • Social Justice Webinar: Healthcare Equity and Accessibility Around the World
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Katherine Tai
  • Deadly Droughts: Adapting to a Drier World

RSS BibliOdyssey

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RSS Today’s Document from the National Archives

  • Compromise of 1850

RSS The History Blog

  • Iron Age sacrificial deposits found in Poland
  • Gold wire kept French countess’ teeth in her mouth
  • Longest sword in Japan found in 4th c. burial mound
  • Musket ball holes may rewrite English Civil War history
  • Soil block grave from oldest burial ground in Germany excavated
  • Roman wood writing tablet with ink found in Sens
  • Winged Victory of Brescia returns to Capitoline Temple
  • Well-preserved wood found at Iron Age farm
  • “Replica” sword is authentic Bronze Age artifact
  • Tinkering

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

  • History and Women - One of the 25 Best Women's History Blogs
  • 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

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
  • 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

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

  • The World in Your Cup
  • 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

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