History & Potpourri, Volume 1 (2021)

Are you ready for an entertaining journey through world history? Enjoy 120 pages and over 20 tales from history, archaeology, religion, and biography—plus 17 full-color images in this first volume of articles selected from History & Potpourri magazine! Discover dozens of fascinating stories and side notes to history: • Why do recent discoveries at the Qumran caves raise more questions about Ancient people than they give answers? • What are witch bottles? How do they connect witches and demons in 1600s Scotland to Protestant preachers in Colonial America? • How did the leasing of federal land in the U. S. lead to murders and prison time—but not for any of the murders? • How did an impoverished and eccentric “wild man” convince a U. S. president to do his bidding? • How did a mighty British army fall to rebellious American colonists? • How was the legend of the Abominable Snowman born? • Which 32-year-old Founding Father proposed to a 15-year-old girl? • What is the truth—and what truth has been stretched—behind Thomas Jefferson’s relationship to enslaved girl Sally Hemings? • What lessons from Napoleon can we apply to recent U. S. presidential elections? • Do newly found 1400s-era Italian beads from Alaska change our understanding of the Silk Road? • How did Father’s Day start with Mother’s Day? • AND SO MUCH MORE! These stories and many more fill the pages of this book. When you’re ready to continue your journey, make sure to visit us online at www.BooksWV.com for more history & potpourri! Inside this book are selected articles and images from History & Potpourri magazine. History & Potpourri (ISSN 2691-9656) is an electronic magazine published monthly, approximately 10 to 12 times per year, at a digital-only subscription price of $20 per year or $2 per single digital issue, by Berkeley Books, PO Box 2052, Hedgesville, WV, 25427, www.BooksWV.com.