#Historians

James Sumner

JamesBSumner

Seems the Telegraph waited two weeks and baked another vitriol pudding around the same draft document they worked the Newton angle on (https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/1386591258685157378). Purely cynical. They don't believe a word

Mathias Seiter 🇪🇺

Dr_MSeiter

A great source which shows the value of mapping the social history of port towns . Thank you @HistoricalSoton for creating this fascinating map of Southampton's #Titanic crew (1/3)https://twitter.com/HistoricalSoton/status/1252881952253734922 Thr

William Hitchcock

WillHitchUVA

What just happened in the Trump-Crozier-Modly affair?Historians have seen this before. In authoritarian regimes, bureaucracies do not exist to function efficiently. They exist to serve the desires of the Leader.

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

today mars leaves Gemini and enters its fall in Cancer. medieval astrologers of the Islamic world were especially nervous of this transit and wrote it meant: -Danger and bloodshed in

Rob Gillezeau

robgillezeau

I'm seeing the claim that Victoria is at its "highest ever" level of unemployment. It struck me as wrong so I went back to the 1931 census and took at

Rain Mason, PhD, BLM, ACAB 🦊

500livesasafox

The myth of the mentally ill witch in textbooks of abnormal psychology: a thread on history, ideology, the status of the occult within clinical psychology, and why I am skeptical

Ken Theroux 🛎

KenTheroux

Before they inevitably start the FDR comparisons. https://twitter.com/KenTheroux/status/1279401574922481670 (1/15/2021)“The model is Franklin D. Roosevelt. Biden won't come close to the scale of New Deal change, given his slim congres

Trevor Culley

HistoryofPersia

Well they did a good job of distilling all of the worst takes about that war into one article I guess. Some highlights:"Had this happened, there might have been no...

Emily Warren

LetsBanquet

Historically, this is incredibly important. Japan has no mineral, rock salt, so all of it has to be drawn from seawater. In the premodern, workers had to gather wood and

Jim Malewitz

Jmalewitz

During the 1918 flu pandemic, Wisconsin was the only state to take uniform, statewide shutdown measures, which historians credit with limiting deaths. But some cities reopened early — with deadly

Austin McCoy

AustinMcCoy3

Like I've said and written: radical political demands aren't meant to be "market tested" and analyzing all protests through the lens of two party politics is very myopic when one

Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC)

HAMOC1791

Its Haitian Heritage Month. To celebrate and help take up your time during these uncertain times, we're going to recommend books on Haitian history and culture. #HaitianHeritageMonth #HaitianTwitter #haitian For

Virat 🕉

ViratMVasani1

He wasn't the last Hindu ruler of Sindh!Even after Umayyad invaded Sindh later a coalition of Hindu Rajput Gurjara-Pratiharas, Hindu Rajput Sisodias, Hindu Chalukyas and Hindu Karkotas destroyed the Umayyad

Matt Gabriele

prof_gabriele

ok, so a couple of things've published recently on "neo-feudalism" and a "return to the Middle Ages." these pieces are both nonsense but reveal a lot about popular conceptions of

Ibram X. Kendi

DrIbram

Let’s talk about persecution, and why it animates the tyranny of Trumpism. The historic defense of violent American bigotry is a projection of persecution rooted in a violent denial of

Chinonyerem Odimba

Chino100percent

We talk about wanting and needing Black work/art of ALL possibilities. We talk about ‘allowing’ Black artists the same freedom to experiment and/or fail. So why the ‘particular’ disappointment/criticism when