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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

  • Hostage Terry Anderson freed in Lebanon
  • “Irish Godfather” killed by car bomb in St. Paul, MN
  • Typhoon "Pablo" kills over 1,000 people in the Philippines
  • Amanda Knox convicted of murder in Italy
  • President Bush orders U.S. troops to Somalia
  • Polish Christians come to the aid of Polish Jews
  • NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for attacking coach
  • George Washington bids farewell to his officers
  • Oliver Kelley organizes the Grange
  • Smog kills thousands in England

RSS BBC News

  • Covid: Biden to ask Americans to wear masks for 100 days
  • Ethiopia aid delayed amid reports Tigray fighting continues - UN
  • Trump raises $200m for post-election legal battles
  • Plane makes emergency landing on US highway
  • US House passes federal cannabis decriminalisation bill
  • Timnit Gebru: Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher
  • Egypt arrests: Three human rights members released from detention
  • China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon
  • Denmark set to end all new oil and gas exploration
  • Time Kid of the Year Gitanjali Rao aims to ‘solve world’s problems’

RSS New York Times

  • Biden to Speak on ‘Stalling’ Economy Amid New Hopes on Stimulus
  • A Unemployment Report Without Silver Linings
  • How 700 Epidemiologists Are Living Now, and What They Think Is Next
  • Covid 'Long-Haulers' Need Medical Attention, Experts Urge
  • The State of the Virus This Week
  • Coronavirus Pandemic Upends Public Services and Jobs
  • Native Americans Helped Flip Arizona. Can They Mobilize in Georgia?
  • Harris Adds to a Diverse Staff Where a Majority, Like Their Boss, Are Women of Color
  • Feeling Spurned by Trump, U.N. Sees Redemption in Biden and Team
  • Hurricanes Eta and Iota Ravaged Central America. Is a Migration Wave Next?

RSS Time Magazine

  • Science Delivers the COVID-19 Vaccine. Too Bad Not Enough People Want It
  • The True Story Behind Red, White and Blue From Steve McQueen’s Small Axe Anthology
  • TIME to Host New Series of Debates and Virtual Conversations in Anticipation of the Reveal of the 2020 Person of the Year
  • The Housing Market Is Booming, But Millions of Americans Face Eviction—and the Gap Is Getting Worse
  • Chinese Spacecraft Lifts Off From Moon Carrying Lunar Rocks
  • Asia Has Beaten Back Each Wave of COVID-19. But This Surge Could Be Different
  • Pfizer Scaled Back 2020 COVID-19 Vaccine Production Targets From 100 Million to 50 Million Doses
  • Biden Says He Will Ask Americans to Wear Masks for 100 Days to Fight COVID-19 Spread
  • Government Shares Previously Undisclosed Data That Could Help in Search for Families Separated at the Border
  • Warner Bros. Will Release Its Films on HBO Max and in Theaters Simultaneously. The Decision May Change Moviegoing Forever

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RSS Reuters News

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RSS WSJ World News

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RSS The World Next Week

  • Screening and Discussion of "A La Calle"
  • The Future of Europe
  • CFR Master Class With Adam Segal
  • A Conversation With President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission
  • A Conversation With House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith
  • A Conversation With Vice Admiral Robert Sharp
  • A Conversation With Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh of the Palestinian Authority
  • A Conversation With President Sebastián Piñera of Chile
  • CFR Master Class With Sheila Smith
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Robert S. Kaplan

RSS AbeBooks Blog

  • DreamHaven Books – Minneapolis’ haven for sci-fi, fantasy & horror
  • American poet Louise Glück wins 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Spend the night in Gladstone’s Library
  • Gustave Dore’s London
  • The Book of Black Magic

RSS Smithsonian History Feed

  • The Horse Flu Epidemic That Brought 19th-Century America to a Stop
  • Smithsonian Scholars Pick Their Favorite Books of 2020
  • The Ten Best History Books of 2020
  • The Smithsonian’s Evolving Role as the Nation’s Knowledge Partner
  • Cooking with Alex Guarnaschelli and 25 Other Smithsonian Associates Programs Streaming in December
  • What Happened on John Lennon's Last Day
  • Twelve Ancient and Enduring Places Around the World
  • The Ten Best Books About Food of 2020
  • Why the P-47 Thunderbolt, a World War II Beast of the Airways, Ruled the Skies
  • Why the Myths of Plymouth Dominate the American Imagination

RSS The New Yorker

  • Donald Trump, George Wallace, and the Influence of Losers
  • “Mank,” Reviewed: David Fincher’s Impassioned Dive into Hollywood Politics
  • Trump’s Explosive Tell-All
  • Feeling Bugged Out
  • Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 4th
  • Long Live the Greatest-Hits Album
  • Fauci a Little Weirded Out by People Suddenly Listening to Him
  • How Dating During a Pandemic Is Like Being in a Jane Austen Novel
  • Ten Great Performances of 2020
  • Meryl Streep on the High Seas in “Let Them All Talk”

RSS History Today

  • Flannelled Fools
  • The Best Articles of 2020
  • On the Spot: Vincent Brown
  • When They Get to the Border
  • Birth of an Imperial Historian
  • After Me, Conquest
  • A Holy Trinity
  • A Historic Turning Point?
  • Illyria Found
  • A Queen on Trial

RSS History Today Podcasts

  • 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
  • A History of the Oceans

RSS Medievalists Blog

  • Manuscripts of Middle English literature go online
  • British Library acquires 15th century psalter
  • Early 17th century Japanese document details castle-building project
  • Manuscripts, databases, and the joys of Byzantine literature, with Dave Jenkins
  • Telling Stories, Saving Lives: The Sultana Who Saved a Kingdom through her Stories

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

  • In memoriam Zsuzsa Urbach (1933-2020)
  • Mapping Eastern Europe Website Launched
  • Croatia and Hungary. 800 Years of Common Heritage
  • 10 Years of the Medieval Hungary blog
  • An Antonio Tempesta rediscovered in Budapest

RSS History Extra Podcasts

  • England’s sporting obsession
  • How did the Reformation impact Jews?
  • Ethiopia 1935: The real history behind The Shadow King
  • Princes in the Tower: A medieval murder mystery. Episode Six: The other suspects
  • The ‘lost’ city of Atlantis
  • Ancient Babylon: everything you wanted to know
  • Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs
  • Robert Harris on V2, historical fiction and WW2
  • 2020: The historians’ verdict
  • Women in Greek myths

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 Flip Side of History: the Aztecs through their own words
  • Ursula Franklin Massey Lecture #1
  • Bridging Divides In The Wake of a Global Pandemic
  • Generation Botox
  • What's in a Name?
  • Common Good | Commanding Hope: Thomas Homer-Dixon
  • Peace, Order, and Good Geometry
  • The Cult Movie Canon
  • The Complexity of Cuteness
  • Thucydides, Part 2: Lessons from the plague of Athens

RSS Council on Foreign Relations

  • Screening and Discussion of "A La Calle"
  • The Future of Europe
  • CFR Master Class With Adam Segal
  • A Conversation With President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission
  • A Conversation With House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith
  • A Conversation With Vice Admiral Robert Sharp
  • A Conversation With Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh of the Palestinian Authority
  • A Conversation With President Sebastián Piñera of Chile
  • CFR Master Class With Sheila Smith
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Robert S. Kaplan

RSS A Don’s Life

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RSS Today’s Document from the National Archives

  • Threat of Bioterrorism in 1775

RSS The History Blog

  • 6th c. B.C. grave raised in huge soil block
  • Remains of Canadian teen WWI soldier identified
  • Unusual medieval knife found in Scotland
  • Mass grave found in Vianen moat
  • Oldest evidence of horseback riding in China
  • Artemisia exhibition film: a review
  • Rare Viking chamber grave found in central Norway
  • Ancient Puebloan blanket made with 11,550 turkey feathers
  • Pillow brick found in 13th c. clergyman’s grave
  • Darwin’s Tree of Life notebook stolen

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

  • Pan: Purveyor of Music and Panic
  • Ancient origins of the griffin
  • The dark side of early Saturnalia
  • Phrixus and the origin of the golden fleece
  • Minerva or Bellona?
  • Africans in Greek and Roman Art
  • Small Etruscan bronzes
  • Alectryomancy and the sacred rooster
  • Animal mummies of the Ptolemaic and Roman Period
  • Byzantine Temple Pendants

RSS Stuff You Missed in History Class

  • Behind the Scenes Minis: Thorpe and Poinsett
  • Joel Roberts Poinsett
  • Jim Thorpe, Pro Athlete (Part 3)
  • SYMHC Classics: Coubertin and the Modern Olympics
  • Behind the Scenes Minis: Jim Thorpe Parts 1 & 2
  • Jim Thorpe, Olympian (Part 2)
  • Jim Thorpe and Carlisle Football (Part 1)
  • SYMHC Classics: Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
  • Behind the Scenes Minis: Baby Savers
  • Vivien Thomas, Surgical Pathfinder

RSS Intelligent Life

  • The secret economics of Christmas adverts, unwrapped
  • The anguish of grandparenting in a pandemic
  • From zumping to fried squid: the new language of work
  • Mindfulness is useless in a pandemic
  • On the hunt with Yorkshire’s virus-detectives
  • The crown and the crop top: the king of Thailand in six objects
  • How Dominic Cummings wasted the greatest opportunity of his life
  • The Thanksgiving turkey is a beast of no nation
  • The painter and the zebra-hunter: what presidents do after leaving office
  • How to train your algorithm: lessons from the pointless and important world of TikTok

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