#Historian

Ben Chu

BenChu_

This is very true from Declan - "Beveridge" has become a shorthand for progressive reform in contemporary debate - it's important to look at what he actually proposed in that

kurt lash

kurtlash1

1/ Stanford historian Jack Rakove has an essay on originalism in today’s Washington Post (if you subscribe, you can find it). A long-time critic of originalism, Rakove insists the first

Ashkan Etemadi

AshkanTweets

1/20In 1975, Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi The Great gave this interview to Canada’s CBCAccording to the CBC’s own description of the interview, “The Shah contends that the West built itself

Seán Napier

Seanofthesouth

1/ #Covid The very nasty #history of the ‘Ussens’ v ‘Themmuns’ over disease outbreaks - An aul historian wryly observed, “the increased movement of people across national borders/areas reinforced the

Simon Rabinovitch

S_Rabinovitch

Oh FFS I spent much of the past two months engrossed in Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem trilogy and emerge only to find an eminent Harvard historian mangling one of its

Fareed Zakaria

FareedZakaria

My latest special report, “Donald Trump’s Conspiracy Theories,” airs on @CNN tonight @ 9pm ET/PT & on @cnni @ 9pm ET. A few conclusions I’ve drawn … #TrumpConspiracy Trump obviously

Sarah Pulliam Bailey

spulliam

NEW Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention are increasingly dropping the “Southern” part of their Baptist name, calling it a potentially painful reminder of the convention’s historic role in support

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VhoNcebes

Who is Soshangane? Let us share and educate others. Who is Soshangane? Let us share and educate others.Soshangane was born in 1780 in Nongoma KwaZulu. His grand Father was Gaza

Yiqin Fu

yiqinfu

A while ago I was playing around with some Chinese names data and found that people preferred shorter (one-character) names before the 1990s but that the trend was quickly reversed

Scribd

Scribd

Have you ever bothered to read some of those really long and dense classics, like WAR AND PEACE? If you've been meaning to get to Tolstoy and other must-read monsters,

Michael Socolow

MichaelSocolow

Just got an e-mail from a scholar who, like myself, works with non-digitized archival materials & therefore has their research process temporarily suspended by the quarantine. They had a small

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Vinodhari2

1. Fact check on CLAIM by Xtians: St. Thomas visited India( kerala) in 52 AD and converted few Brahmins, established 8 churches , fixed 7 cross and eventually he was

amid amidi

amid

THREAD: One of the problems with Twitter (& social media in general) is not only users who post false info but the thousands of others who signal boost the false

Robin Stevens

redbreastedbird

I’d like to share a cool historical fact with you that’s also a good reminder you should ALWAYS research the historical ‘facts’ you already ‘know’. (I put this on my

Emily Bazelon

emilybazelon

Has any senator so far pointed out that Scalia's originalist interpretation of the 2nd Amendment was wrong, according to the constitutional historians who actually study this? And who think the

Ben Orlin

benorlin

A brief collection of Twitter tributes to the irreplaceable mathematician John Horton Conway, who passed away yesterday. https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1249102738828316672 https://twitter.com/JSEllenberg/status/1249062835793125380 https://twitte