#Historian

Fiona Shoop

FiShoop

I’m going to be 50 tomorrow. Not bad going for someone born blue with a duff heart and given a death sentence by various doctors for different things over the

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/18About 500 miles to the southwest of Ankara less than half an hour from the Turkey-Syria border lies the city of Harran. Here lived, long ago, a pagan star-worshipping people

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 The analysis of medieval Islamic history and philosophy on display is not only outdated, but quite

King Williams

IamKingWilliams

Robert Moses is trending... TL:DR #RobertMoses was a New York City politico and urban planner, who at one point held TWELVE different titles of government AT THE SAME TIME.He’s credited

Indian Rwanda Radio

IND_RwandaRadio

Today a thread referencing a report @NidhiSuresh_ published on @newslaundry titled, "Harvesting hate: Indian TV is doing what Rwandan genocide trial warned us against. What happens when hate speech is

Guy

GUZZbeast

Ok so my weekly entertainment consumed thread. A rewatch of Body Heat and all albums. That’s it. I’ll only show pictures of films, music and YT today cause that’s all

#SaveSheikhJarrah

Ilana_Who_

Today is the anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre, one of the notorious massacres of the Nakba. Deir Yassin wasn’t just a massacre. It was betrayal that led to a

Natasha Varner

nsvarner

As Irish Americans, we can’t celebrate our heritage without first coming to terms with the fact that our identity is constructed on a foundation of anti-Blackness. A thread about that

The Watchful Indian

watchful_indian

Thread: How Mughals drained wealth out of IndiaThere are folks like @ReallySwara who want others to believe that Mughals made India rich. But they are as wrong as one could

Dr. Shay-Akil McLean, BA, BA, MA, MA, Ph.D.

Hood_Biologist

Hello everyone! First I'd like to thank @kstsosie for organizing @DecolonizeDNA & inviting me to participate.Today I'll be discussing the relationships between race/ism, biology, & human health. Below is a

Amandeep Madra OBE

amanmadra

"In the last two world wars 83,005 turban wearing Sikh soldiers were killed and 109,045 were wounded."....Except they weren't. Unfortunately the facts in this quote don't add up at all.Following

Carole Hope - Great War (Old) Gal

carole1418

1/18 The Easter Rising in Dublin lasted 6 days; within that timespan men of Irish regiments in France suffered heavy casualties from two chlorine gas attacks launched by the Germans,

Sameer Siddiqui

SenatorSameer

I have written a short thread on the rise of ANP, Aman Committee, Karachi, and Boys. If you are interested in the issue of Aman Committee, PPP, or Karachi. Do

Thomas Zimmer

tzimmer_history

I find this question, prompted by @SethCotlar’s criticism of what he rightfully calls the "naïve, American Exceptionalist idea that 'it can’t happen here'," really interesting. A few thoughts from a

Dominique Samuels🌸

dominiquetaegon

HISTORY THREAD : I am often asked why I identify with Britain so much and believe black people truly have a place here to call their own. That’s because black

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. So I have a few thoughts on Richard A. Epstein, shoddy contrarian arguments about coronavirus pandemic, the anti-empiricism of Austrian economics, the popularity of dubious neo-Larmarckian biology among conservatives,