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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

  • Mac Davis earns one of the 1970s’ most head-scratching #1 hits with “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me”
  • Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis
  • Planet Neptune is discovered
  • Standard Oil geologists arrive in Saudi Arabia
  • Billy the Kid arrested for first time
  • Controversial call gives Cubs the pennant
  • FDR defends his dog in a speech
  • A two-month manhunt for a murdering writer comes to an end
  • President Truman announces Soviets have exploded a nuclear device
  • John Paul Jones wins in English waters

RSS BBC News

  • US election: Trump won't commit to peaceful transfer of power
  • Breonna Taylor: Police officer charged but not over death
  • Alexei Navalny: Russian activist discharged from Berlin hospital
  • Hunter Biden: Republicans release report on Joe Biden's son
  • Juliette Gréco: Doyenne of French singers dies at 93
  • The pandemic is fuelling a surfing boom - in Ohio corn country
  • Belarus: Mass protests after Lukashenko secretly sworn in
  • Westpac bank to pay record Australian fine over laundering breaches
  • Trudeau promises 'ambitious' Canada recovery plan
  • Ischgl: Austria sued over Tyrol ski resort's Covid-19 outbreak

RSS New York Times

  • Breonna Taylor Live Updates: One Officer Charged With Endangering Neighbors
  • Breonna Taylor’s Life Was Changing. Then the Police Came to Her Door.
  • What Is ‘Wanton Endangerment,’ the Charge in the Breonna Taylor Case?
  • Ginsburg Remembered as Champion of Justice as Struggle Continues Over Her Successor
  • A Capital Engulfed by Sadness and Rage
  • Ginsburg Clerks Remember Her as a Mentor Who Treated Them Like Family
  • Election Updates: Trump Refuses to Commit to a Peaceful Transfer of Power
  • Polls show Biden highly competitive in red states.
  • Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden
  • Covid-19 Live Updates: Undercutting Scientists, Trump Says Tightening Vaccine Guidelines ‘Sounds Like a Political Move’

RSS Time Magazine

  • ‘The Devil Will Be in the Details.’ How Social Media Platforms Are Bracing For Election Chaos
  • ‘This Resets the Race.’ Why Trump’s Move to Fill the Supreme Court Vacancy Raises the Election’s Stakes
  • Trump Allies Weigh Which Supreme Court Pick Would Help Him Win The Election
  • Exclusive: Putin’s Allies Offered a ‘Back Channel’ to Key Witness in New Senate Report on the Bidens
  • We Will Likely Not Know Who Wins On Election Night. We Should Be Prepared and Accept That.
  • ‘I’m Really Glad We’re Now Allowed to Not Just “Shut Up and Sing.”‘ The Chicks on Music, Sexism and Democracy
  • ‘We Have to Stay Vigilant.’ Sundar Pichai on Alphabet’s Role in Fighting Misinformation and Safeguarding Elections
  • ‘Outrageous and Offensive.’ Kentucky Grand Jury Brings No Charges Over Breonna Taylor’s Death
  • I Was Just Denied Clemency in the State of Florida. I’m One of Many People With Past Convictions Living Without My Full Civil Rights
  • ‘Country First’: Cindy McCain Invokes Her Late Husband’s Slogan and Backs Joe Biden

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RSS Reuters News

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RSS WSJ World News

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RSS The World Next Week

  • The Future of U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
  • What Is Next for the WTO?
  • A Conversation With Abdullah Abdullah
  • Lessons on Reopening in a Pandemic From Around the World
  • A Conversation With Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran
  • Trust and Distrust in the American Political System
  • Distinguished Voices Series With Robert B. Zoellick
  • Reopening U.S. Schools During a Pandemic
  • Foreign Affairs September/October Issue Launch: What Happens When We Have the Vaccine?
  • Lessons From History Series: Screening and Discussion of “Desert One”

RSS AbeBooks Blog

  • Spend the night in Gladstone’s Library
  • Gustave Dore’s London
  • 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

RSS Smithsonian History Feed

  • How Geraldine Ferraro's 1984 Campaign Broke the Vice-Presidential Glass Ceiling
  • The Real Aerial Battles That Inspired 'Star Wars'
  • Charlotte's Monument to a Jewish Confederate Was Hated Even Before It Was Built
  • Are There Native Descendants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition? And More Questions From Our Readers
  • How NASA Marketed Its Space Program With Fantastical Depictions of the Future
  • Germany May Have Banished Nazism, but Its Medieval Anti-Semitism Is Still in Plain Sight
  • Nero, History's Most Despised Emperor, Gets a Makeover
  • Fidel Castro Stayed in Harlem 60 Years Ago to Highlight Racial Injustice in the U.S.
  • Alexander von Humboldt: The Man History Forgot
  • How the Revolutionary Thinker Alexander von Humboldt Helped to Create the Smithsonian

RSS The New Yorker

  • Donald Trump Is Attacking American Democracy at Its Core
  • “Kajillionaire,” Reviewed: Miranda July’s Astounding Metaphorical Vision of a World Out of Whack
  • A Post-Ruth Bader Ginsburg Court Could Be One More Climate Obstacle
  • Review: “Get Organized with The Home Edit” Is Infomercial Reality Television
  • Ming Smith’s Pioneering Excavations of Black Femininity
  • The FinCEN Files Shed New Light on a Scandalous Episode at Deutsche Bank
  • Modern Pop Stars
  • Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 23rd
  • Democrats Favor Expanding Supreme Court by Adding Entire Obama Family
  • Carrie’s Voice-Overs if “Sex and the City” Were Set in 2050

RSS History Today

  • Bats: Out of Hell?
  • Before Empire
  • Making Massacre
  • Why Study the Past?
  • The Last Sikh Queen
  • Death of a Medieval Polymath
  • The First Blind Medical Trials
  • No Such Thing
  • The Western Gaze
  • Judith and Holofernes

RSS History Today Podcasts

  • Terror on Wall Street
  • The Power of the Royal Mistress
  • The Rise of the Valkyries
  • 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

RSS Medievalists Blog

  • Used Medieval Books: From Edward to Gawain
  • Robin Hood – The Man, The Myth, and The History – Part 4: Will the Real Robin Please Stand Up?
  • Back to School, Medieval Peasant Style
  • The world of Orcadian runecarvers: the Western Sea, the South of the land, and Jerusalem
  • The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle

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

  • 10 Years of the Medieval Hungary blog
  • 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

RSS History Extra Podcasts

  • JFK: the path to power
  • Viking genes unravelled
  • Hitler’s vengeance
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about the East India Company, but were afraid to ask
  • Ghosts of Viking London
  • Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya – the greatest female spy in history
  • Prisoners of the Japanese
  • Medieval rebellions
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about the Suffragettes, but were afraid to ask
  • Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe

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 Buffalo, Part One
  • Dear Leader: Notes from the time of cholera
  • Beethoven's Scowl
  • Into the Wild: Anthropologist Wade Davis
  • The History of Serial Killers: Peter Vronsky
  • How jeans became one of the most polluting garments in the world
  • The Identity of Me, The Community of Us
  • The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism: Anne Applebaum
  • The Common Good: The Politics of Belonging
  • The Common Good: The Next Great Migration

RSS Council on Foreign Relations

  • The Future of U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
  • What Is Next for the WTO?
  • A Conversation With Abdullah Abdullah
  • Lessons on Reopening in a Pandemic From Around the World
  • A Conversation With Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran
  • Trust and Distrust in the American Political System
  • Distinguished Voices Series With Robert B. Zoellick
  • Reopening U.S. Schools During a Pandemic
  • Foreign Affairs September/October Issue Launch: What Happens When We Have the Vaccine?
  • Lessons From History Series: Screening and Discussion of “Desert One”

RSS A Don’s Life

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RSS Today’s Document from the National Archives

  • Crisis in Little Rock

RSS The History Blog

  • Gallo-Roman wine vat found in Touraine
  • Farmer plows up a runestone
  • Anglo-Saxon cemetery with sand-silhouette skeletons found
  • First Shakespeare play to reach Spain found
  • Perfectly preserved cave bear found in Siberia
  • Hyper-resolution Night Watch
  • Conservators discover Michelangelo’s tool marks on Pietà
  • First Phoenician wine press found in Lebanon
  • Rails from 1906 trolley dug up in Walla Walla
  • The Blue Boy is back and bluer than ever

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

  • 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
  • The Pioneer Women of California - Ellen VanValkenburgh, Emily Williams, and Eva VanValkenburg
  • Tituba - The First Witch of Salem
  • Mary De Morgan - A Writer of Fairy Tales
  • Suffragettes - Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflins

RSS Roman Times

  • The ancient city of Tiryns in history and myth
  • Dogs, symbols of fidelity in the ancient world
  • Chariots in ancient warfare
  • Cornelius Gallus, poet, orator, politician and first Roman prefect of Egypt
  • The Real Cleopatra
  • Ancient Marriage Rings
  • Roman and Etruscan worship of Amphiaraus
  • Tympanum: Instrument of Ecstasy
  • The Phrygian Cap in Greek and Roman Art
  • The worship of Roma and the Imperial cult

RSS Stuff You Missed in History Class

  • The Paramount Decrees: The Court Cases - Pt. 2
  • The Paramount Decrees: Paramount’s Beginnings - Pt. 1
  • SYMHC Classics: Alexander Selkirk
  • Behind the Scenes Minis: Forten and the Lawson Murders
  • Six Impossible Episodes: There’s a Book About That!
  • James Forten
  • SYMHC Classics: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning in Love
  • SYMHC Classics: Croesus
  • Women’s War of 1929
  • Croesus of Lydia

RSS Intelligent Life

  • Why even the young dye
  • If you’re happy and you know it... press the button
  • From plandemic to breadcrumbs: conspiracy-theory slang
  • Climbing with Erik Weihenmayer
  • Visors and violence: we are returning to the Middle Ages
  • October/November 2020
  • Lather me than you: the joy of soap
  • Come gather round people: why we risk death to join the crowd
  • Back to the drive-in
  • Girl meets bike: but what should she wear?

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