Historical Highlights 164

Happy Friday! Here are your historical highlights, touching on archaeology, literature, archives, and even blue jeans.

In archaeology news, georadar was recently used to discover a buried Viking ship in Norway. 

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Theodore Roosevelt’s papers are now available online. (Did you know that he was a rancher, explorer, and writer, as well as president?)

The historian for Levi Strauss & Company shares fifty years of history of their women’s clothing division.

The American National Archives shares answers from their staff to the question: “What made you want to work at an archives?”

Also from the National Archives, a look at Mexican American participation in World War I using primary sources.

Here’s a call to preserve the eyewitness accounts of people who lived through historical events. 

Here’s some advice for writers of historical fiction.

Finally, check out this medieval book that opens six ways. 

Enjoy this fall weekend. (Can you believe we had snow on the ground yesterday morning?!)

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