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This Day in History

Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier
Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac
Earthquake rocks Alaska
FDA approves Viagra
"March Madness" crowns its first men's NCAA Champion
President Jackson appoints John Eaton as secretary of war and starts scandal
Mexican army executes 417 Texas revolutionaries at Goliad
Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton are married
Marlon Brando declines Best Actor Oscar
Jumbo jets collide at Canary Islands airport

The World Next Week

Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: The Legacy of the Helsinki Accords
Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security With Rafael Mariano Grossi
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

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

Smithsonian History Feed

How the Fight for Birthright Citizenship Shaped the History of Asian American Families
Frederick Douglass Thought This Abolitionist Was a 'Vastly Superior' Orator and Thinker
'The Lost King' Dramatizes the Search for Richard III's Remains. The Monarch's Life Was Even More Sensational
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

History Today

Ancient Outtakes
American Moppets
The First Folio
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?

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

Medievalists Blog

At the dawn of Byzantine Studies: Martin Crusius (1526-1607), with Richard Calis
Emperor Frederick II, Mr. Controversy
The Medievalism of Naruto
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

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

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

History Extra Podcasts

George VI’s Nazi dilemma
The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know
Six Wives Trailer
Patriarchy’s long roots
Disciplining the “scum of the Earth”
Women & the crusades: patronage, propaganda & prayer
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”

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

CBC Ideas Podcasts

Alphabet Odyssey: The Middle English Dictionary
BBC Reith Lectures #1: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Thucydides, Part 1: The First Journalist
The Librarian Who Won’t Stay Quiet
Indigenous Sexuality and Gender
2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 5: On Death
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

Council on Foreign Relations

Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: The Legacy of the Helsinki Accords
Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security With Rafael Mariano Grossi
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

BibliOdyssey

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Today’s Document from the National Archives

A Petition from the Hopi Villages

The History Blog

Record-breaking EID MAR aureus looted from Greece, now repatriated
Medieval chess set DNA tested
Fiberoptic cable installation uncovers ancient mystery structure
Unusual Maya stone tomb found near Palenque
Complete zodiac found on Temple of Esna ceiling

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

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)

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

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)

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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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

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…

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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