This day in this history, that history, and this other history....
September 25, 2014 3:32 PM   Subscribe

I maintain a small Twitter feed where I do a "This day in history as illustrated with cool books from Open Library" thing. I often use Wikipedia's day thing (today's example) and it's often all about the history of men, conquest, nation states/building and a bunch of other things that aren't always relevant to my interests. I need more options.

I'd like to have a list of other goto TDIH pages that have

- A decent amount of examples if possible. I love Smithsonian's but it's only one thing per day.
- Pre-1920s if possible (more public domain books to choose from)
- Bonus if they reflect non-traditional histories of various types
- Citations a plus.

Currently using History Channel, NYTimes, Wikipedia. What other sources will complement these? Web pages fine, twitter accounts fine, facebook accounts probably less fine unless they're really special. Not looking for audio/video. What am I missing? Link in profile if you want to see it.
posted by jessamyn to Computers & Internet (13 answers total) 18 users marked this as a favorite
 
There's the Zinn Education Project that posts something nearly every day.
posted by mareli at 3:43 PM on September 25, 2014


Rogue Classicism seems to have stopped updating "This Day in Ancient History," but there are enough archives to keep you going for a while.
posted by oinopaponton at 3:45 PM on September 25, 2014


The Library of Congress "American Memory" site has a TDIH feature. Looks like only one thing per day though.

HistoryOrb has Today in Feminist History

A Calendar of People's History from The Daily Bleed

Radical Women's History Project

Not a great-looking site, but maybe you'll find something useful: something called The People History

And finally here's a roundup of Day in History sources from University of North Texas that might be worth a browse.
posted by aka burlap at 3:55 PM on September 25, 2014


The Chronicling America library has a massive archive of old newspapers. My "one history thing a day" is on day 1,035 largely using sources that are found in Chronicling America.
posted by AzraelBrown at 3:58 PM on September 25, 2014


This calendar has dates specifically about women in history, if that helps.
posted by terrapin at 4:20 PM on September 25, 2014




Lawyers, Guns & Money (frequent, but not daily) --Tag: "This Day in Labor History"
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:00 PM on September 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor includes daily literary-focused historical events, and they're available on the show's website (i.e. listening to the actual show/podcast isn't required).

Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with the show, but they did link to one of my websites, many years ago.
posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 4:29 AM on September 26, 2014


This Day in North Carolina History has some off-the-beaten track kind of stuff, they're trying to be inclusive with women and minorities too.
posted by marxchivist at 5:14 AM on September 26, 2014


In terms of history, I have always liked James Burke's approach of looking at change through the window of technology and invention.

There is a distilled list of some of the key inventors and technologies here.
posted by plinth at 6:59 AM on September 26, 2014


Response by poster: Thanks so much everyone, this is all very helpful. I'll dig through these over the next few days and see what works for me.
posted by jessamyn at 10:19 AM on September 26, 2014


This Day in Water History is really nicely researched and often really interesting.
posted by rockindata at 9:23 AM on March 3, 2015


This Day in Water History is really nicely researched and often really interesting

Oh, that is a terrific site, rockindata. Thank you!
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:42 AM on March 4, 2015


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