#1930s

Ahmed Khan

Islam4Americans

In the mid 1930s when the supreme court building was completed several statues were crafted of different historical personalities, some religious and many political. Their importance behind their construction was

Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

DrAlakbarov

This isn't the Third Reich. This is Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, in the 1930s.To his circle of fervent recruits, he was “Jack King” – the

Tides of History

labour_history

#OTD 1948. Death of the Labour MP Evan Durbin as he drowns saving his familyOne of the bright stars of Labour’s 1945 intake, Durbin had been PPS to Gaitskell and

Manouk Akopyan

ManoukAkopyan

.@esrailian executed Kirk Kerkorian's vision to perfection to produce a film about the Armenian Genocide.Eric deserves a lot of credit for making a movie that meant the most to the

Tom

tom_username_

Another intuition:After someone has broken up with you, you become sad and desperate. You hinge your hopes on the possibility that you can get back together. So long as this

Daniel Tilles

danieltilles1

The man now in charge of Poland's schools and universities has said:- "There's no doubt LGBT ideology comes from the same roots as Nazism"- "Stop listening to this idiocy about

Bill Hanstock

sundownmotel

My book comes out next week! It was a long time of researching and writing and editing to get to this point, but I learned so much about the bizarre

Elizabeth

VintageEliz

Hello hello! I haven’t talked about this in a while (especially since it’s all been on hold anyway due to the pandemic) so for my newer followers, I sing in

Judy Chevalier

judy_chevalier

1/ I have been learning from #Tweetablackeconomist but today I am going to tweet a political scientist, @MeganFrancis. Econs should spend more time studying philanthropy in general, but the role

Juliana Feliciano Reyes

juliana_f_reyes

I wrote about the summer of sanitation workers in Philadelphia https://www.inquirer.com/jobs/labor/trash-pickup-philadelphia-sanitation-workers-20200804.html w/ visuals by @jessicagriffin @kristenbalderas Some backstory: You'll see work

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sifill_LDF

In the 1930s it was understood that if a Black man was accused of a violent crime against a white person on the Eastern Shore of MD, local officials would

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide

Bruce & City Between

citybetween

Wait! Did St. Louis have a French Quarter like New Orleans? The city of the arch and Budweiser? If so, where is it? This though struck me recently when I

mmatigari

matigary

Random Thread: All you need to know about rooibois tea. 1/ Weeks ago, I kept seeing Earl Grey & Lipton tea during breakfast at a hotel. So I insisted I

paolette

deviIette

Since everyone was really into the topic of most haunted places in Puerto Rico. Here’s a thread of locations to visit if you wanna be a Ghost hunter for a

Neil Gregory

neilgregoryhes

1/ It's #WorldArtDecoDay so I've been asking round the @HistEnvScot Survey and Recording team for their standout buildings of the era.Clare Sorensen's plumped for the Viking Cinema, #Largs for the