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AAdhira đđŽđł
Aadhiraspeaks
I came across an article & i was really disturbed. Would like to share some snippets of it. We all have read the atrocities done by British rule in Indians,
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Samuel Amaha
SamuelTsegai1
Obviously, I don't intend to exonerate or discount Isaias's role but the historian in me thinks @RAbdiAnalyst pinning the entire turmoil in the Horn of Africa on Isaias Afwerki is
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Jack Jewers
jackjewers
Last night I discovered a great story and fell down a rabbit hole. In 2008 this photograph of a leaf, thought to be from 1839, was withdrawn from auction when
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Anne Applebaum
anneapplebaum
Good Morning! My book is published today in both the US and the UK. The publishers could not agree on the title - for a moment there, it even got
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Myron B. Pitts âď¸
FOmyronpitts
The Confederate monument in Haymount I wrote about recently is being removed. Bruce Daws, city historian, says it is owned by private parties who are going to place it in
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Jennifer White
JWhitePubRadio
THREAD: I've been trying to process everything that's happened over the past week. I've bounced between anger, hurt, anxiety and numbness. I haven't had the words to express everything I'm
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Grace Mallon
GraceMallon3
If I have to read another weepy political thinkpiece by a historian who wants us to know that Joe Biden will rescue the foundersâ vision for America, so help meWouldnât
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Tim Wise
timjacobwise
1/ Those bashing #1619project aren't quibbling over details, about which solid historians disagree. They are attacking the very notion (inarguable among reasonable people) of white supremacy's centrality to the nation's
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Mateusz Fafinski
Calthalas
Putting your name on money transfers to buttress or appropriate authority in times of crisis is very much a Medieval Thingáľá´š. Offa gave the pope dinars signed with his name
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Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley
lottelydia
I hate this trope about British âembarrassmentâ about their own history. The British are largely proud and/or ignorant of their own history. Thatâs basically the problem.https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1298233236204793857 Th
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Astoria Bookshop
astoriabookshop
Dana's in-stock #AstoriaStaffPicks book rec of the day: Never Anyone But You, by Rupert Thomson from @otherpresshttps://astoriabookshop.com/r/tu/bnk "The novelized story of the life of Claude Cahun and her/their partner Marce
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Calamity Calla
CallaCameron
Ok, I ignored this for a couple of days but I can't now. Jill Lepore's article in the @washingtonpost is, in a word, wrong. It's just wrong. I don't mean
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K
lady_toku_fan
.....I really tried. I really didnât want to make comments about this. BUUUUTTTTT...... As a historian, I absolutely CANNOT accept the inaccuracies in these statements. First of all, Japan invaded
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Andrzej Kozlowski
akoz33
The first Western book on WWII on the Eastern Front worthy of the name, that is, one that doesnât (at least in a large degree) parrot Soviet and post-Soviet propaganda
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Ninève
VeNus_De_MiLo1
Assyrians fought bravely for the British during WWI, in the hopes of a reciprocal relationship and assistance with the establishment of the Assyrian state, but we were betrayed. Hence the
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Alyssa đ Smith
_alyssacsmith
1. Short thread: I have something to say about how we have been tracking #COVID19 primarily through numbers. As a historian of violence, I am concerned ab casualty figures becoming
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