====== History Resources ======

As with the list of [[all-purpose-history-threads|all-purpose History threads]] in which most of the links below were found, this list is also incomplete. There are additional history resources on the various pages of [[Resources for Writers]].

==== Ancient World ====

[[http://footballandfragmentarypoetry.tumblr.com/|Football and Fragmentary Poetry]]: "These are pictures of football players with translations of ancient poetry placed underneath them."

Tausret, the female pharaoh:

  * [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tausret-richard-h-wilkinson/1110924445?ean=9780199740116|//Tausret: Forgotten Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt//]]; Richard H. Wilkinson, ed.
  * Callender, V.G., [[http://www.buske.de/product_info.php?products_id=2414|"Queen Tausret and the End of Dynasty 19,"]] in //Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur// 32
  * Dodson, Aidan. [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/poisoned-legacy-aidan-dodson/1020781429?ean=9789774163951|//Poisoned Legacy: The Fall of the 19th Egyptian Dynasty//]]

[[http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/67199-History-of-Carthage-Popular-Names-etc|Popular Carthaginian names]]

[[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/134519.html?thread=702397303#cmt702397303|Biographies of Alexander the Great]]

[[http://celteros.tumblr.com/post/4860924137/sughaim-sine-homosocial-nipple-sucking-in-ancient|//Sughaim Sine//: Homosocial Nipple Sucking In Ancient Pagan Ireland]]

A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX85kJli8PA|10-minute rock epic]] about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epulon|the Battle of Nesactium]], sung in contemporary Istrian slang

Cicero’s //Phillipics//:

  * M. Tullius Cicero, //Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics)//, C.D. Yonge, Ed. [[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0021|Perseus Digital Library]] — uploaded by one nonny to [[http://www89.zippyshare.com/v/7H8yRUvQ/file.html|Zippyshare]] (.azw3, .epub, .mobi formats)
  * [[http://www59.zippyshare.com/v/HNkloEsw/file.html|First //Phillipic// translated by Michael Grant, plus Second //Phillipic// translated by D.H. Berry]] (same formats)
  * [[http://www59.zippyshare.com/v/HNkloEsw/file.html|]][[http://www40.zippyshare.com/v/SEQnhjLa/file.html|First nine //Philippics// of the Yonge translation combined, with functioning footnotes]] (same formats)
  * [[http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/KvM4bk8b/file.html|All 14 //Philippics//, Yonge translation, functioning footnotes, compiled from three different sources]] (same formats)
  * [[https://librivox.org/author/3336?primary_key=3336&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results|Cicero recorded by LibriVox]] (including the [[https://librivox.org/philippics-by-cicero/|//Phillippics//]])
  * [[http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%80_Monsieur_Ousqu%C3%A9mont-Hyatt,_%C3%A0_Gand|"À Monsieur Ousquémont-Hyatt, à Gand"]] by Alphonse Allais (Cicero railing against the Catalina brothers for riding tandem on a bike)

[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Antony*.html|Plutarch’s //Life of Antony//]]

[[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9776|Cicero's //Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished.//]] “Antony's grandfather was a famous orator - and Cicero's hero? Cicero wrote what was basically a fanfic featuring him.”

[[http://fratboymanwhore.tumblr.com/post/117137416872/ciceros-car-lot|Cicero's Car Lot]]

Books by Patricia Southern: [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mark-antony-patricia-southern/1102046259?ean=9781445608631|//Mark Antony: A Life//]] (one nonny does not suggest getting the much-too-abridged combined Antony & Cleopatra edition); [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/augustus-patricia-southern/1116948681?ean=9780415628389|//Augustus//]]; [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/roman-britain-patricia-southern/1120683947?ean=9781445611907|//Roman Britain//]]

[[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/caesar-adrian-goldsworthy/1100525474?ean=9780300139198|//Caesar: Life of a Colossus// by Adrian Goldsworthy]]

[[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ambush-that-changed-history-72636736/?no-ist|"The Ambush that Changed History,"]] about the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest|Battle of the Teutoburg Forest]]. The article draws on Peter S. Wells's [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/battle-that-stopped-rome-peter-s-wells/1101995540?ean=9780393020281|//The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest//]] ([[http://avaxsearch.org/?q=the%20battle%20that%20stopped%20rome|PDF]]).

[[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Sandman_Vol_2_30|//Sandman//, "August" issue (originally #30),]] features a dark!Caesar story about Octavian. It’s part of the “Distant Mirrors” series, which also covers the French Revolution, Emperor Norton, and Haroun al-Raschid; these stories and others were later collected in the paperback //Fables and Reflections//.

[[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2942927-a-brief-history-of-the-private-lives-of-the-roman-emperors|//A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors// by Anthony Blond]]

[[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2942927-a-brief-history-of-the-private-lives-of-the-roman-emperors|]][[http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/tag/matrons-of-awesome/|Matrons of Awesome series]] of posts about Roman women

[[http://fuckyeahalcibiades.tumblr.com|Fuck Yeah Alcibiades]], which among other things contains [[http://fuckyeahalcibiades.tumblr.com/post/3466029693/oh-my-god-legit-olden-days-socratesxalcibiades|19th-c. Socrates/Alcibiades fanart]]

Clip from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-briQqhGZY|John Woo’s //Red Cliff//,]] which depicts the Zhuge Liang “Straw Boat Borrows Arrows” story

==== Byzantium ====

  * [[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Anecdota/9*.html|Procopius on Theodora]]

==== Middle Ages ====

  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxPar0BcMo|Wait For It...The Mongols!: Crash Course World History #17]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/148471.html?thread=786885623#cmt786885623|Discussion of two different translations]] of Sei Shōnagon’s //Pillow Book//

==== 15th & 16th Centuries ====

  * [[http://www.exurbe.com/|Ex Urbe]], a blog by the historian Ada Palmer, who focuses on the Renaissance
  * [[http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/old-masters/caravaggio.htm|Caravaggio]]
  * Korean Turtle Ships (early 15th to 19th century): [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_ship|Wikipedia]]; [[http://navy.memorieshop.com/Korea/Turtle-Ship-Diagram.gif|a diagram]]
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rani_Durgavati|Rani Durgavati]]
  * [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sisters-to-the-king-maria-perry/1101993367?ean=9781780120713|//Sisters to the King// by Maria Perry]], about Margaret and Mary (Rose) Tudor
  * //Chin P'ing Mei//, 16th-century novel, “written as a scathing critique of the corruption and immorality of the late Ming Dynasty” — [[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/books/david-tod-roy-completes-his-translation-of-chin-ping-mei.html|//New York Times// article]]; [[http://weepingcock.livejournal.com/568185.html|weepingcock excerpts]]
  * [[http://historieofbeafts.tumblr.com/post/116903967420/today-in-renaissance-scientific-mysteries-what|Renaissance thought on whales]]

==== 17th Century ====

  * [[http://mcb226.github.io/SlaveTrade/|Interactive map chronicling the trans-Atlantic slave trade]]
  * Shivaji Bhonsle, Indian warrior king: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji|Wikipedia]]; [[http://learningandcreativity.com/chatrapati-shivaji-great-escape/|how he and his son escaped the Mughal emperor]]; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaji_Malusare|his close friend Tanaji Malusare]]; [[http://www.romeomodels.com/images/images_extra/RM-75-015_4.jpg|his warrior iguanas]]; [[http://historytalkiez.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Shivaji-Afzal-Khan.jpg|defending himself with tiger claws]]
  * Christina, Queen of Sweden: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina,_Queen_of_Sweden|Wikipedia]]; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ags39i275ro|trailer of //The Girl King//]]
  * Julie “La Maupin” d’Aubigny: [[http://kellygardiner.com/fiction/books/goddess/the-real-life-of-julie-daubigny/|Kelly Gardiner]]; [[http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/julie-daubigny/|Rejected Princesses]]; [[http://www.eldacur.com/~brons/Maupin/LaMaupin.html|Jim Burrows]]; [[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4W5ZAAAAcAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA125&dq=%22la+maupin%22&ots=EdH3sLY168&sig=XMSFwpi2mxPOaxzVYomuQApsTco#v=onepage&q&f=false|Robert Malcolm]] clutching his pearls over her
  * [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/immodest-acts-judith-c-brown/1101394298?ean=9780195042252|//Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy// by Judith Brown.]] (Actually extends well beyond the Renaissance into the 17th century.) “The lesbian part is the most eye-catching, but it's definitely not the nuttiest part of the story- the nun in question only got caught because she started proclaiming that Jesus was visiting her in visions, and that she was married to him on the astral plane in Heaven.”
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_tossing|Fox tossing]] (warning: cruelty to animals)

==== 18th & 19th Centuries ====

  * Frederick the Great, //“the Potato King of Prussia — A story immortalised in potato prints by [[http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/the-legend-of-the-potato-king/%E2%80%9C|the NYT itself!]]”//
  * [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-midwifes-tale-laurel-thatcher-ulrich/1018993567?ean=9780679733768|//A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812//, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.]] “Ulrich is the person who coined the famous ‘well-behaved women don't make history’ quote (in this very book, in fact) but her meaning was the opposite of how it's come to be used- she was talking about how ‘well-behaved’ women like Martha Ballard rarely had their accomplishments recorded, even though they were integral parts of the community.”
  * //[[http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/18th-century-sex-toy-found-in-ancient-latrine-150415.htm|18th-century dildo found in ancient latrine in Poland]]//
  * //[[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rani.html|The Rani of Jhansi]]//
  * //[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Figueur|Marie-Thérèse Figueur]]//
  * //[[https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9782809705324/haikus-erotiques|//Haikus érotiques: Extraits de La fleur du bout et du Tonneau de saule//]], Anonymous; translation/commentary by Jean Cholley//
  * //[[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/134016.html?thread=699710848#cmt699710848|Many NSFW links]] for Japanese haikai, ladies and dildos.//
  * //Lord Byron was, um, [[http://blogs.forteana.org/node/147|“built like a pony.”]]//
  * //[[http://theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/time-me-gentlemen-the-fastest-surgeon-of-the-19th-century/264065/|'Time Me, Gentlemen': The Fastest Surgeon of the 19th Century]]//
  * //[[http://www.c-span.org/video/?325200-3/discussion-legacies-appomattox|David Blight on the Legacies of Appomattox]]//
  * //[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begum_Samru|Begum Samru]]//

==== 20th Century ====

  * Tavoukdjian, Serpouhi. [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/exiled-serpouhi-tavoukdjian/1114984707?ean=2940016631271|//Exiled - Story of an Armenian Girl//]]
  * [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/good-women-of-china-xinran-xinran/1100619082?ean=9781400030804|//The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices//, by Xinran.]] Women’s lives under the Communist regime
  * [[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/below-stairs-margaret-powell/1111611653?ean=9781429952446|//Below Stairs// by Margaret Powell]], which inspired the series //Upstairs, Downstairs// and //Downton Abbey//. “Powell worked as a housemaid in the 1920s, and wrote several scathing memoirs about the experience. This is the first one.”
  * [[http://www.tailstrike.com/database.htm|Cockpit Voice Recorder Database]]



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