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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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  • Leading Mexican presidential candidate assassinated
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  • "OK" enters national vernacular
  • Lewis and Clark depart Fort Clatsop
  • James Cameron’s "Titanic" wins 11 Academy Awards
  • President Reagan calls for new antimissile technology
  • Germans slaughter Italian civilians

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  • Educators Webinar: "The Bill of Obligations" With Richard Haass
  • Academic Webinar: U.S. Strategy in East Asia
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  • Higher Education Webinar: Teaching the History of American Democracy
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Wally Adeyemo

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
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RSS Smithsonian History Feed

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  • Why French Authorities Placed a Young Pablo Picasso Under Surveillance
  • The Long History of Forcing Jews to Wear Anti-Semitic Badges
  • Why Marie Antoinette's Reputation Changes With Each Generation
  • The Tenacious Women Reporters Who Helped Expose the Boston Strangler
  • The Sideshow Magician Who Inspired Ray Bradbury—Then Vanished
  • How Edith Wilson Kept Herself—and Her Husband—in the White House
  • The Brief but Shining Life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Poet Who Gave Dignity to the Black Experience
  • Mina Miller Edison Was Much More Than the Wife of the 'Wizard of Menlo Park'
  • The Timeless Draw of Decorating Cookies

RSS History Today

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  • A Life of Retirement
  • Asia and Africa Unite
  • Fostering the Foundlings
  • On the Spot: Richard J. Blackett
  • Codes and Crowns
  • Death of an Intrepid Traveller
  • What was the Impact of Julius Caesar’s Murder?
  • Fight On
  • A Test Case for Tolerance

RSS History Today Podcasts

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  • ‘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

  • New Medieval Books: Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture
  • 850th anniversary of the Battle of Fornham to be commemorated this weekend
  • Medieval Women’s Letters
  • Top 10 Most Iconic Images of the Middle Ages
  • The Battle of Falkirk (1298)

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

  • Disciplining the “scum of the Earth”
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  • Science & religion: a story of war or harmony?
  • The North: from Bede to Lowry
  • Paganism: everything you wanted to know
  • Eat for victory: WW2’s “British Restaurants”
  • Madame Restell: the abortionist who shocked and fascinated 19th-century New York
  • Medieval manuscripts: an enduring obsession
  • Njinga: queen, warrior, diplomat
  • Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters

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

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  • 2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 4: On Sex and Gender
  • 2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 3: On Humour
  • 2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 2: On Creation
  • 2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 1: On Language
  • Of Dogs and Derrida

RSS Council on Foreign Relations

  • ISA Luncheon Discussion: Geopolitics in the Middle East
  • How Does the War in Ukraine End?
  • Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: The Dynamics of the European Union
  • Lessons Learned With Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg
  • Three Years Into the Pandemic: What to Expect?
  • Educators Webinar: "The Bill of Obligations" With Richard Haass
  • Academic Webinar: U.S. Strategy in East Asia
  • Social Justice Webinar: Social Safety Nets
  • Higher Education Webinar: Teaching the History of American Democracy
  • C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Wally Adeyemo

RSS BibliOdyssey

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RSS Today’s Document from the National Archives

  • 26th Amendment

RSS The History Blog

  • Complete zodiac found on Temple of Esna ceiling
  • Silhouette album, now without arsenic poisoning
  • Kitchen reno in York rediscovers 17th c. frescoes
  • 1,400-year-old Moche murals of two-faced men found in Peru
  • Video tour the restored House of the Vettii

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

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  • 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

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  • 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)

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
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  • How the pandemic made fonts friendlier
  • June/July 2021
  • I can’t wait to get back to normal. How long before I’m bored?
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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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