History Blogs

Here are some fun history blogs you might be interested in checking out:

Boston 1775

• Thoughts on the Powdered Wig
• Dr. Thacher’s Diagnoses
• The Confiscation of John McWhorter’s Gun
• A Call for Studies of Biography and Celebrity in the 1700s
• Online Collections of Engravings and Samplers
• Watching the Native Northeast Portal Grow
• A Free Peek into the American Ancestors Databases
• Representing Washington in Cambridge, 14 July
• Rehabbing Colonial Massachusetts’s Granite Positioning System
• The World War of 1778 to 1783

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…

Cardinal Wolsey's Today in History

• The All Saints Flood of 1570
• How Greece lost her Marbles
• West Wycombe Park
• Lost Rivers of London: What Lies Beneath
• The Lutenist
• London Lives 1690-1800
• I'm back
• History of the world in 100 objects - early modern bits
• Trees Lounge: The Great Oak at the Gates of the Dead
• Admiral Byng.....it's not over

Civil War History

• A new adventure and tracing Civil War soldiers
• Ten Years of Blogging and Reflections on Teaching the Civil War
• What’s in a school name?-Robert E. Lee is out
• Upcoming Civil War reenactment in Pennsylvania
• Robert E. Lee: Honorable Man, or Treasonous Scoundrel
• Skype-ing the Civil War with students, part II
• Fort Sumter fired upon 155 years ago
• Skype-ing the Civil War with students
• Some thoughts on Mercy Street
• More thoughts on The Civil War rebroadcast

Women of History

• Could these be the faces of the murdered wife and son of China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang?
• Was This Powerful Chinese Empress a Feminist Trailblazer?
• How Bad Was Jezebel?
• Grave of Medieval Bulgarian Princess 'Built Into' Foundations of Stone Church
• Dearth of female Nigerian leaders
• Church reproposes Order of Virgins 50 years after its restoration
• Space Coast women aviators honor memory of those who flew before
• Women Empowerment in Vedas
• 2,000 year old mummified ‘sleeping beauty’ dressed in silk emerges from Siberian reservoir
• The woman who built Jersey's first hospital

For more fascinating blogs, check out 100 Awesome Blogs for History Junkies .