#Historians

Benjamin Park

BenjaminEPark

There’s few more consequential figures in Mormon studies than D. Michael Quinn, who worked for LDS church, taught at BYU, was excommunicated, & published a series of books that reshaped

Mike Bechthold

mike_bechthold

#OTD in 1918Manfred von Richthofen, the #RedBaron, was shot down and killed near Morlancourt, France. He was the top ace of the First World War. His death remains controversial to

Dr Carolyn Dougherty

CarolyninManc

#NTiHoR 1/15 Before the railways was the carrying trade—an intermodal network of waggons, boats and coastal ships operated by independent carriers. Historians have written about these transport modes, but the

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

While today religious leaders grumble about protests and #BlackLivesMatter , historically Black Muslim leaders were at the heart of uprisings against slaveryIn honor of Juneteenth, a quick thread on

Jeff Jarvis

jeffjarvis

The virus (and fights against masks and vaccines) are merely McGuffins, props in the crazy right's anti-intellectual effort to own the libs, the experts, institutions, authority: anger for its own

philwoodford

philwoodford

Some reflections on the Corbyn era, now that it draws finally to a close. Historians will puzzle over just how badly @UKLabour took leave of its senses in a period

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

In Islamic belief, angels have no free will and are the perfect servants of the God. There is however a debated narrative of two angels who came to earth and

Akshay

Dauhshanti

Parashurama killing off Kshatriyas, especially Kartavirya Arjuna & his Heheya clan of Mahishmati is a famous legend. But there exists a tradition in which Parashurama enthroned Hehaya prince as king

L.D. Burnett

LDBurnett

#twitterstorians, we are in hell.this is hell.watch the world burn live, below:https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1306624450884972551 we are just now learning, from Larry Arnn, that while Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and wrote the Decla

Natalie Morrill

natalie_morrill

I think I'll start a thread of images that make me happy (whether in a LOL way or just pleasant). To be updated as I think of it. Please enjoy,

Jesse W. Torgerson

JWTorg

What in the #history is the myth of #originalism doing?#Twitterstorians on the #ConeyBarrett hearings.https://medium.com/@jtorgerson_62256/confusing-myth-with-history-columbus-day-thucydides-a-garden-of-american-heroes-and-amy-coney-e5ce70d

Shirley Tillotson

stillots1

Speaking of she-cessions and care-work in strange times:The 1942 mass income tax met fierce resistance from married women war workers who had children. Like care workers today, they were under

Elisheva Avital

ElishevaAvital

Today is the 80th anniversary of #Kristallnacht. A personal story: My grandfather fought in WWII. He never spoke about it, so we didnt know much about his time in the

Safi Saheb

nawab_safiullah

The Muslim Empires founded by people of Indus Valley/Modern Pakistan over the Ganges plains/Modern India.1) Lodhi dynasty–a Pashtun dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1451 to 1526. It was founded by Bahlul

Gabriel Weinberg

yegg

We haven't seen the final complaint yet, but as we understand it right now, the US Department of Justice today is saying in no uncertain terms that Google used, and

True Indology

TIinExile

This is a thread about a typical "RW Elitist".Who is a "RW elitist"?He is the one who claims to support, ostensibly, Indic causes post 2014.However he is a total leftist