#Historians

Christopher W. Jones

cwjones89

Last week I wrote a tweet. A great many of you responded by 'liking' this tweet without comment. I will assume that all of you agreed with it completely.(j/k, why

maggie

margecmurph

hey yall. ive spent some time trying to educate myself on hamilton and lin manuel miranda before i watch the movie tonight. as much as i love the show, it

Wade R. Giesbrecht

TheSnipeshow

One thing I definitely want to avoid doing while I reminisce about the Bentley Generals is to disrespect the League the Gens’ belonged to: The Chinook Hockey League. As The

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform, the Soviet information agency, in retaliation for its "non-aligned" status; deprived of information-processing capacity, the country created its own IT industry from scratch.1/

Myz Lilith

MyzLilith

You can test any claim that a problem can be solved 'by blockchain' by substituting 'by database' instead. If it now sounds like nonsense, it always was. If it still

Katherine Ibbett

eparpillee

Today @LockdownBestia1 #LockdownBestiary, S is for SHEEP. (Is the whole bestiary an excuse for me to do this? maybe.) We all know what sheep can signify in early modern Europe!

Nexus Consulting

funwithfundas

#Onthisday in 1929, America witnessed a stock market crash now infamously dubbed “Black Tuesday.” An economic depression that later spread to the rest of the industrialized world, here are some

Accidental Writer

accidentlwriter

Here is a brief thread on the very underrated and much ignored Chola dynasty (by Delhi of course!) Read if you want some myths around Indian naval power (in history)

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

The conservative freak out about the 1619 Project (of which Cotton is just the latest example) is not about history. It's about memory; about what parts of the nation's past

Blake Scott Ball

bsb1945

Since it appears many of the historians that typically rush to launch anti-conservative threads are silent on debunking this "court packing" lie that Biden is spinning, I'll take this one

Eric Lipton

EricLiptonNYT

THREAD: CAMPAIGN DOLLARS AS A TRUMP TOOL TO SILENCE CRITICS: One aspect we dig into in this piece is how Trump has used $$ donated by supporters to silence/intimidate ex

Nick Stember 沈若昆

beckminster

Last week, I received comments from a reader of my blog regarding my description of the central question of my PhD research as:How can we, from the perspective of the

NIHARIKA

Saysniha

If you think the Mughal emperors of the subcontinent has clean slates, well, they haven’t taught you anything in history class have they. Mughal emperors were nothing but rapists &

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

You may have heard that the US Capitol Building was built with slave labor. That's true.But what most people don't know is the extraordinary story behind the statue that sits

Dannielle (Dossy) Blumenthal PhD

DrDannielle

Book discussion: "The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816" (Jewish Culture and Contexts) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812223438?tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1 This discussion relates to &

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/The author, @Ed_Husain, made a string of errors and specious arguments in this piece. The analysis of medieval Islamic history and philosophy on display is not only outdated, but quite