#Historical

ICYMI this is my last blog for the year, so I am being true to myself and yelling about sex and racist attempts to whitewash history into an imagined pure
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As I try to work a bit on a windy rainy Sunday, a glance at Twitter manages to rattle me. Seems the British fascination with eugenics is really deeply held.1.
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Good morning pals! I hope you're all keeping well. Today I thought we'd discuss displaced identities. Obviously, my research population are the 2nd generation Irish in Britain (more specifically the
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Many children in the US education system are not taught about major Black historical events, such as the Tulsa Race Massacre or Juneteenth, the June 19 commemoration of the end
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Simple minded backward looking VCs look at this chart of US e-commerce penetration and think its bullish, but I couldn't find a better example of "first order thinking" or sell-the-news
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Ending or reducing the $600 Unemployment Supplement is cruel, hypocritical & stupid. 1/9 1st, it’s important to point out that one of the main objectives of the $600 UI addition
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Anyway, minus well start this. If any folks are interested and want me to tweet a bit as I read, I’m happy to. Already shook by this blurb by philosopher
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Historian @KevinLevin mentioned a new biography of Lee coming this fall. I have no knowledge or opinion of it. But some historians asked, "Do we really need a new biography
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One of the core beliefs that both parties agreed to for a long time was that, on the whole, our inheritance as Americans was a good thing. Imperfect, sure, and
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Here's the thing guys & gals: Biden was always going to win. At least since Trump lazily thought he was done protecting us from the virus when he faux-banned travel,
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The concept of liberalism is a funny thing right now. ML's tend to use the term to refer to anyone who isn't a Communist or a reactionary, or as say,
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Since the start of George Floyd protests I've been thinking about what BLM means to me & trying to understand why many members of Han Chinese diaspora in the US
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A few words on this much-discussed (but IMHO problematic) piece in FP. First of all, I share some of the author's frustration. Trotting out the same passages of Thucydides when
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The world loves to attribute greatness to a long line of European mathematicians beginning with the Greeks/Romans without realizing that much of this 'history' was conjured up from thin air
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was thinking about doing a one day one historical sapphist thread one historical sapphist a day, the paris lesbos edition one historical sapphist a day, the sewing circle edition
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Haven't done a proper historical thread in a while, so....Ever wondered how mathematics got to be a "young man's game"?Let's have a look... 1/ This thread is based on a
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