I love all history – it’s fascinating. The older, the better. The more complicated, the more closely I pay attention.
There’s a constant stream of history sites that populate my Facebook newsfeed. And, for Halloween this year, I took my son to George Washington’s estate, Mount Vernon, because that’s the kind of place I like to celebrate everyday occasions.
So here are some of my favorite places for history news.
There’s so much to read on Atlas Obscura.
The blog says it’s the “definitive guide to the world’s wondrous and curious places.” Indeed.
Some of the history-specific posts that caught my eye include Found: A New Ice Age Cave Network Below Montreal, When a City and a Bishop Went to War Over Beer, and Using a Particle Accelerator to See Inside a 1,900-Year-Old Mummy.
The History Blog was launched June 2006. It’s being managed by a writer by the name of livius.
Notable posts on The History Blog include Google, British Museum digitize Maya collection, 3D animation of sculptor’s cave, and Ancient orca geoglyph rediscovered in Peru.
Oh, and this dino-mite gem: Hundreds of fossilized pterosaur eggs, some with embryos, found in China.
This site. Honestly, The Vintage News has some of the best content.
It covers news, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, glamour, strangeness, and it also features video.
Interesting posts that I recently found include The centuries-old “Underground Salt Cathedral” of Poland is so vast, it’s possible to go bungee jumping, “America’s Best Girl” stole the nation’s heart by swimming the English Channel in 1926, and later dedicated herself to the deaf children she taught to swim, and When Athelhampton House’s owner died in 1598, his four daughters equally divided the manor and it remained divided for 250 years.
While not a traditional history blog, Mental Floss has some pretty great historic bits.
Other history goodies include A Mystery Shipwreck in Canada Might Be Tied to the 1917 Halifax Explosion, 84 Years Ago Today: Goodbye Prohibition!, and ‘I Am Almost Always Alone’: Auctioned Letters Explore Greta Garbo’s Private Life.