#Historical

Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld

AlysonRosenfeld

Hi! It’s a hard weird time in one of the hardest weirdest historical moments any of us will (hopefully) ever live through. Here are some things that have been helping

Lorin Hochstein E_TOO_MANY_FAILURE_MODES

lhochstein

Resilience engineering makes the following seemingly contradictory claims:1. Small incidents don’t provide insight into big ones.2. To get insight into the nature of big incidents, study the small ones.How can

Vic Clarke

vjc_torianist

Okay I have seen the Mary Wollstonecraft statue. I have many questions and they all start with why https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/mary-wollstonecraft-finally-honoured-with-statue-after-200-years Like, even the nakedness aside

Jeff Pearce

jeffpropulsion

There was a time when I thought Ethiopia Insight might have value as a platform for different voices. I'm now beginning to wonder if its mandate is to destabilize a

Rebecca L. Spang

RebeccaSpang

How do revolutions--periods of great political, social, cultural uncertainty + possibility--happen? I have been thinking a lot lately abouthistorical contingency (chance)central role of aggressive resistance to change (sometimes mistakenly

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

With Trump filling Twitter with his stupid appropriation of a quote from John Paul Jones, here's some better JPJ content. 10 years ago I wrote about a 1790s radical named

James Martin, SJ

JamesMartinSJ

Gospel: On the Feast of the #HolyFamily, remember that in many respects, Jesus, Mary and Joseph lived the life that most families do: earning a living, keeping the home, cooking,

Land of the Free

trustrestored

Looking at the historical flight radar for Nashville from 1AM-7AM, a few interesting notes: 1) flights were still departing through 6AM, but last flight departure at 6:14AM. This aligns with

Dr Lizzie Swarbrick

LizzieSwarbrick

Disappointed that @StAndrewsHist are putting out think pieces like this http://tiny.cc/pbcrrz at the moment. There’s always space for nuance, but when black people are fighting for their actual lives it’s

Yi Xiaocuo

YXiaocuo

"the police officers would take groups of four or five girls in for interrogation and take turns with them." We need to look at camp system as a rape center

Mother Brit

PotentiaEtActus

There are a lot of things both difficult & good to ponder here. I wonder often about the future of theological education, particularly as local formation models spring up. I

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

No more Bartolomeo Platina! Now we get to move on to a document that I'm still trying to figure out, quite simply because it's so beautiful and tantalizing. It's also

jules rylan ✡︎

radiantbutch

essentially, femme is queer femininity and butch is queer masculinity. that’s why masculine gay men in the 1960s could serve “butch realness” or feminine n-b people can say they present

Petty White

flotisserie

Moving from one community where the social issues around drawing school district boundaries were crystal clear, to a new community where the reasons behind district drawings and grad rates are

Jen Bartel

heyjenbartel

I feel like I'm going insane. Trump incited a literal insurrection on our Capitol, the insurrectionists came with IEDs, weapons, and zip ties. They erected literal GALLOWS outside the building.

Yair Netanyahu 🇮🇱

YairNetanyahu

Today is the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av. On this day we Jews mourn upon the destruction of our temple and our capital Jerusalem 2000 years ago.

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