#HISTORY

Colin Wright

SwipeWright

Psychiatrist Jack Turban recently had his paper claiming that anything short of affirming a child's gender identity is harmful thoroughly debunked. Now he's published this @sciam article claiming research into

Atticus Finch

Atticus59914029

A brief thread if that’s okay. I’ve been thinking about the Founders and about the end of slavery and of Jim Crow. It’s in vogue these days to cast aspersions

Evan James

EvanJamesArt

@Chris_Broussard would you please STOP IT w this total nonsense that pip was top 5 in the nba back then. That is revisionist history bs. Look at this. You taking

Greg Jenner

greg_jenner

Lovely metaphor, not remotely true history. This photo is from Paris Match/Daily Mail, 1958. The Algerian donkey was starving to death, so a soldier from the 13th brigade of the

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

When I was a student in history classes, a common mantra was: Don't judge past people by present standards; that's anachronistic.One of the shifts happening now is the opening up

Dr William Tullett

WillTullett

Anybody got good examples of people working on pre-1850 history where they've developed a narrative/impacts from their research around influencing social policy, government, policing, regional growth, etc. other contemporary challenges?

Daisy Turnbull Brown

MrsDzTB

More than doubling the cost of humanities degrees is sad. They teach critical thinking, research skills, and broaden our worldview. It is easy to rip into them for not being

EastEndWomen'sMuseum

EEWomensMuseum

On the blog today, Fran Gallio presents a short history of the Jagonari Centre in Whitechapel. Established in 1987, the centre responded to the needs of local women in the

Aspen Ascend

AspenAscend

#IndigenousPeoplesDay offers us an opportunity to reflect on how Native traditions and teachings can offer guidance on how to work through the pain of racism towards a society that honors

bubs

silverguyun

the etymology behind the word ‘seersucker’ is so interesting... it comes from persian shir-o-shakar, meaning milk and sugar, because of the alternating textures in the fabric fabric history in general

Ian Cook

cookerlv

turtle song persian language 2.0 oh dude what genre of music do you listen to?turtle song persian language 2.0 my greatest regret in high school is not making ms tolen

safija

safijas_

The fact that the Bosnian war was 20+ years ago and you still have Serbs gloating about the war, calling the dead Bosniaks “terrorists” & sing songs about their war

Jennifer Adcock, RPG Designer

JenKatWrites

boy I would love it if facebook and twitter didn't show me the interactions of people I am friends with/follow with people who I am NOT friends with/don't follow, because

Dubious

DubiousCA

One thing that frustrates me about queer discourse:Even people defending the use of the word ‘queer’ ALWAYS have to soften w ‘but I’d never use that word for anyone ELSE

T.B. Caine

TBCaineWriter

hey just for the record I don’t support biphobia or acephobia or harassing authors but I *do* maintain everything I say in my own threads xx Queer men in literature

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

Chuck Todd just explained the prior positions of the Senate on election year nominations by only citing Republicans opposing the idea and not all of the Democrats who demanded it.