#Historical

I can’t speak on whites pretending to be Black in the academy. But I see similarities with how whites have adopted a Native identity in the academy. Yes, there’s a
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Since the Neoliberal Subreddit twitter has deigned to dunk on me for my monetary and banking views, it's time for a thread of indeterminate length! As to the question of
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Yes, there’s lots of serious discussion about the #Grant doc today. But that’s not why you come here. No, you come here for a painstaking, Zapruder-like breakdown of the film’s
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Someone elsewhere asked me how to educate oneself away from Christian supersessionism, and wondered about a more radical Jewish-Christian split that happened around Constantine. (It was before Constantine). Here's what
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Manhattan Beach was once home to Black beachgoers, but the city ran them out. Now it faces a reckoninghttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-02/bruces-beach-manhattan-beach More than a century ago, Anthony Bruce’s ancestors turn
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This profile of the changes to the Republican Party highlight several people and issues: @marcorubio and the call for “common good capitalism”; @oren_cass and the need for industrial policy; @yhazony
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Growing up, all the historical figures that I loved to read about had complicated relationships with gender. Joan of Arc was a favorite of mine; a teenage peasant who wore
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A refresher: What is Critical Race Theory after all? As drawn from the explicit answers to this question given by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mari Matsuda, Charles Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Devon Carbado,
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I'm excited about this, even if somehow, tens of thousands of years in the future, Hollywood thinks jihad is taboo. Herbert defined jihad as a crusade and saw them as
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Political Decoys in world history.Events of last few weeks kept many Nigerians wondering who really is occupying the highest office in the land.The controversial leader of IPOB, Nnamdi KANU in
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People keep talking about how women must be inclusive and about how bad it is for one of us to be ‘exclusionary’. It’s increasingly clear that it isn’t us as
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something different about reading books vs articles or "long" essays. writers get to take their time, dive deep into research and expand on topics in a way that's much more
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Okay, so this is the kind of thing you could spend an entire doctorate/career working on (ask me how I know!), but a few places to begin:https://twitter.com/ericlinuskaplan/status/1262826736661622784 You can start
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Many by now know how well the gaming industry has been affected by covid-19 which has led to cancellations of most major leagues around the world. Bookies have been badly
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did u know that while Guinevere is nearly always the wife & queen of King Arthur, her adulterous/courtly love affair with Lancelot is much, Much less universal? there are even
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I am series four of #TheLastKingdom on Netflix . It's...not bad, and provides a broadly authentic flavour of life in 8th/ 9th Century England, but historians will find plenty of
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