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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

  • Minnesota enters the Union
  • "Butcher of Lyon,” former Nazi Gestapo chief, charged with war crimes
  • British prime minister Spencer Perceval assassinated
  • Dust storm sweeps from Great Plains across Eastern states
  • Germans prepare to protest Versailles Treaty terms
  • President Kennedy orders more troops to South Vietnam
  • Bloody 10-day battle at “Hamburger Hill” begins
  • Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess match
  • Reggae star Bob Marley dies at 36
  • Fire kills 50 at soccer stadium

RSS The World Next Week

  • Term Member Discussion on China's Belt and Road Initiative
  • Transition 2021 Series: The U.S. Approach to Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Higher Education Webinar: Transforming International Affairs Education to Address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Transition 2021 Series: U.S.-Saudi Relations: Where Do We Go From Here?
  • Virtual Roundtable: Major Power Rivalry in East Asia
  • Renewing America Series: Reskilling and the Future of Work Post-Pandemic
  • Virtual Roundtable: The Politics of Primary Health Care
  • The Future of Work in the COVID-19 Economy
  • A Conversation With State Councilor Wang Yi of China
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lawrence H. Summers

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

  • Hear the Voices of America's Artistic Community Recounting Despair, Resilience, Loss and Creation
  • Hear Voices of Women Trailblazers in Science, Technology and Innovation
  • This Odd Early Flying Machine Made History but Didn't Have the Right Stuff
  • How Norman Granz Revolutionized Jazz for Social Justice
  • What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)
  • Dive Into National Gems, Study Photography, Discover Women Architects in These 34 Online May Programs
  • What's Missing from Classrooms When Asian American and Pacific Islander Voices Aren't Included?
  • African Europeans, Jewish Commandos of WWII and Other New Books to Read
  • The Lasting Riddles of Orson Welles' Revolutionary Film 'Citizen Kane'
  • Remembering Michael Collins

RSS History Today

  • Yemen’s Endless Wars
  • A Feather in her Cap
  • Blow-by-Blow
  • Is Caribbean History the Key to Understanding the Modern World?
  • A Tyrant goes on Trial
  • Death of an Occultist
  • The Spy, The Enigma
  • Polling in a Pandemic
  • The Lives of Napoleon
  • Breaking Time’s Arrow

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

  • Quest for the Historical Arthur: A Kalamazoo Story
  • The International Congress on Medieval Studies goes virtual
  • Medieval sword discovered in Poland, possibly connect to the Battle of Grunwald
  • The story of a Byzantine military manual: Syrianos magistros and his compendium ‘Anonymus Byzantinus’
  • Were medieval cities greener? Urban agriculture in the Middle Ages

RSS In the Middle – Medieval Blog

  • 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
  • A Graduate Student in the (Farmers') Marketplace of Ideas
  • On hidden scars and the passive voice

RSS Medieval Hungary

  • An Overview of the Excavations of Pétermonostora near Bugac
  • The Restoration of the High Altar of Kisszeben
  • In memoriam Zsuzsa Urbach (1933-2020)
  • Mapping Eastern Europe Website Launched
  • Croatia and Hungary. 800 Years of Common Heritage

RSS History Extra Podcasts

  • Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Harold Wilson
  • Madness, property and power: the strange case of Mary Davies
  • The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know
  • Medieval Ethiopia’s diplomatic missions
  • Uncovering the truth about WW2’s Katyn massacre
  • The changing shape of slimming clubs
  • Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Clement Attlee
  • How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?
  • Prohibition: everything you wanted to know
  • The Danelaw: a Viking kingdom in England?

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

  • Unsound: The Legacy of Alexander Graham Bell
  • Reading with a Grain of Salt, Part Two
  • Feline Philosophy
  • Around the World in 80 Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author
  • Forgetting and Remembering a Pandemic
  • “You Might Need Some Richard Rorty”
  • Reading with a Grain of Salt, Part 1
  • Saving Liberal Democracy: How the humanities can help humanity
  • Around the World in 80 Plays: The Walls
  • Ideas from the Trenches: The Taboo Relic

RSS Council on Foreign Relations

  • Term Member Discussion on China's Belt and Road Initiative
  • Transition 2021 Series: The U.S. Approach to Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Higher Education Webinar: Transforming International Affairs Education to Address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Transition 2021 Series: U.S.-Saudi Relations: Where Do We Go From Here?
  • Virtual Roundtable: Major Power Rivalry in East Asia
  • Renewing America Series: Reskilling and the Future of Work Post-Pandemic
  • Virtual Roundtable: The Politics of Primary Health Care
  • The Future of Work in the COVID-19 Economy
  • A Conversation With State Councilor Wang Yi of China
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lawrence H. Summers

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

  • USS Bunker Hill after a Kamikaze Attack

RSS The History Blog

  • 113 pre-Columbian burials found in Guadeloupe
  • Hyenas gnawed on Neanderthals in cave south of Rome
  • Catherine de’ Medici returns to Strawberry Hill House
  • Cannon from 2nd Spanish Armada recovered from looters
  • Gold bracteate hoard found in Norway
  • Medieval child found buried in Alcázar palace
  • Viking prince’s bones found in mislabeled box
  • Unframed Botticelli reveals original paint
  • Bronze Age jewelry depot found in Sweden
  • Constantine colossus reunited with finger

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

  • 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
  • The Pioneer Women of California - Ellen VanValkenburgh, Emily Williams, and Eva VanValkenburg
  • Tituba - The First Witch of Salem

RSS Roman Times

  • Archaic Period Horse Sculptures
  • "Colors of the Romans: Mosaics from the Capitoline Collections" opens at the Centrale Montemartini in Rome
  • Waterfowl in Greco-Roman art
  • Demon God Protector of Egypt at the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 20 - October 31, 2021
  • The aspis and rise of the Argives
  • Hermeticism and the debate between Myth and Science
  • Bust of a Boy or Eros with the Attributes of Herakles, 150-100 BCE, Roman Period Greece
  • The Flight of Aeneas
  • Usil, the Etruscan god of the sun
  • The beautification of Medusa

RSS Stuff You Missed in History Class

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RSS Intelligent Life

  • 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
  • Out of oxygen, out of time: covid-19 suffocates Kolkata
  • Did an avant-garde French artist sell the first NFT?
  • America and the taco: an immigrant story
  • Doing jigsaws with Ian Rankin
  • Too hot to handle: the battle over biryani

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

  • Earth Notes: Chaco Chocolate
  • Worth One’s Salt
  • A forest on caffeine’? How coffee can help forests grow faster
  • Ancient European Hunters Carved Human Bones Into Weapons
  • The Annual Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
  • Why Did Women Stop Dominating the Beer Industry?
  • Prehistoric women were successful big-game hunters, challenging beliefs about ancient gender roles
  • How early humans’ quest for food stoked the flames of evolution
  • Finds in a Spanish cave inspire an artistic take on warm-weather Neandertals
  • 5,200-year-old grains in the eastern Altai Mountains redate trans-Eurasian crop exchange

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