#Historical

Polity

politybooks

To celebrate the publication of Rachel Hammersley's new introduction to republicanism, we ask you: what is your favourite republic, historical or fictional? Venice's stable, aristocratic system? Roman tumult? James Harrington's

Fletch 🏌🏼‍♀️🥃

JBFletcher10

One bright spot of a very weird/troubled time is watching my *very* apolitical friends purchasing firearms/signing themselves/wives etc. up for classes, getting verbally spit-shitting angry over what’s happening when before

JMack: Mom-At-Arms

ShockaJilly

Thread: I’m sick of this “Jesus’s race” BS.But since it’s a big deal, here are some facts. Jesus was not white.Jesus was not black.Jesus was a bloodline Jew... sooo... his

Dr. Erik Wade

erik_kaars

I am fascinated by medieval Christian depictions of Biblical events with obscene marginalia. Like this page depicting Christ carrying the cross & a man shooting an arrow at another man's

Magnus Davidson

DavidsonMagnus

The Highland and Islands of Scotland should be independent. And almost every argument used for Scottish nationalism can be used to argue that the Highlands and Islands would be better

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

I grew up in Central PA, and I have some nerdy historical/sociological analysis to offer as to why it's a bad idea to use the term #pennsyltucky to criticize racism.https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1277811057520762883

Jamie Susskind

jamiesusskind

I’ve been reflecting on why tomorrow’s EHRC report has assumed such importance to many in the Jewish community. Why, given Jews *know* they were right to sound the alarm on

L Harris

ladyduckpojok

I am sick of this gender war. Sick of putting time & energy into defending the idea that women are a sex, not a set of stereotypes or a feeling

mσístєr thαn αn σчstєr

miiowskii

It confuses me so bad how hard leftists try to convince themselves that Native Americans were a homogenous group of painfully similar, peaceful, kumbaya, pacifists. My ancestors, the Apache, Comanche,

Tube Time

TubeTimeUS

ever wonder why the schematic symbol of a bipolar transistor looks the way it does? the two angled lines look particularly odd, but there is a fascinating historical reason for

You'll Be Alright lol

EasyWorkLmfao

The original people of Southeast Europe were Black. The indigenous people were ethnolinguistically related to the indigenous BLACK people of North Africa AND Southwest Asia AKA "The Middle East".EVERYONE IN

Chris Grove

OPReport

1/ Additional color from Penn on early days for Barstool app. Full filing here —> https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/921738/000110465920108042/tm2031632-1_424b5.htm (h/t @financeamir).For a bit of context, total PA handle in Sept

Djehuty Ma'at-Ra

DMRHerbs

1. “You’re likely aware of the number 42 being associated with Jackie Robinson, said to be the first black baseball player in white Major League Baseball. If you saw the

Collective for Black Iranians

BlackIranians

(1)It is not exactly clear when #Khyzran was born. Historical documents tell us that it was somewhere around 1834 near #Zanzibar, an island off of #Tanzania, #Africa. (2)Records also show

RoamFM

RoamFm

A growing list of public Roam graphs I wish to see:1. The British Museum Graph features every exhibited item, its history, and linked references in terms of the time period,

Michael Young

Michael91693258

Historians study sources to interpret the past. These sources are primary, secondary, and tertiary. The disciplinary methods and approaches to make sense of the facts from these sources help to