#Historians

I have issues with posts like this. No contemporary historians, even very few historians of the last few decades, writing on AtG uphold this idea of a chaste “buddy” relationship

Sophia McDougall

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ROMAN HISTORIANS: And then we had YET ANOTHER batshit idiot monster manchild for an Emperor and every day was a living nightmareLATER HISTORIANS: Clearly an exaggeration. Bear in mind this

I was thinking this morning about how historians are portrayed in spec fic, especially stuff set in the human future, and about what depictions of the practice of history "perfected"

Alex Sayf Cummings🌹

One good thing about growing up poor as shit as a minority is that you can see the writing on the wall. It would take a million years to catalog

#Historians:What would you assign in an upper-level course that analyzes the contributions of West Africans to the Atlantic world? My course examines agency and power, analyzing how West African polities

since everybody is working on syllabi right now anyway, #twitterstorians, tell me your favorite thing you've done with digital primary sources in the classroom (for a piece I'm working on).

InDefenseOfToucans

Toucan's 1 step solution to being less wrong about the USSR or any other historical event. Step 1. Don't read one single primary account and assume it is universally correct.

Dr. Keisha N. Blain

No offense to journalists & others who occasionally write #history. We appreciate you and we thank you. We hope you will continue to do it. But I think it's important

If you are interested in archives and the way historians operate within them check out my new article in Diplomacy & Statecraft 1/https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2020.1782672 In it I seek to address 2

Shefali Vaidya.

#Thread There is a lot of hubris among some ‘trained’ historians and archeologists in India that they alone are the custodians of India’s history, and no one else knows anything

cant stop thinking abt how you could legally buy a famous painting and then choose to eat it. and no one could stop you ive now fallen down an imagination

I’ve debated sharing this tweet for a while but it has popped up a few times over the last few weeks so it may be worth sharing as an “on

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mekadebinesikwe

Too many non-Native historians believe that the remedy for the historical mis-telling of Native history is to "prove" that Native people are the same as / equal to non-Natives (esp

Some thoughts on "interdisciplinary" uses of history.1. History is not just a source of raw data. Even simple historical sources require interpretation. They often need quite careful contextualization. Ducking this

Christopher J. Slaby

Subtweet of the day (that will soon not be a subtweet but I do need to actually read for substance before I start calling people out). Historians: images are sources

Here goes...*draft KS3 curriculum*N.B. Most of it is built on fab work in @histassoc's Teaching History - by too many brilliant people to name here.Each enquiry is 3-6 lessons long