#Historians

It's nearly 80 years since the series of atrocities known as the Glina massacres took place. There are still people alive today who were small children at the time. In
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1/ There have been lots of threads about the job market and Ivy PhDs recently, one of them discussing why Ivies don't get jobs at 'teaching' schools. The suggestion was
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Tonight's #reviewthread: @NicoMyTurn's SOUL LIBERTY: THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK RELIGIOUS POLITICS IN POSTEMANCIPATION VIRGINIA (@uncpressblog).(Reminder: capitalized words represent my categories.) GENERAL ARGUMENT: while scholars have often foc
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Lesser Known Fact: According to archaic texts parts of Pakistan, specifically Northern Punjab and possibly southern KPK, had an indigenous Islamic kingdom in 830 CE due to conversion of its
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Trans people simply lack the demographic mass of Black people, women, or even gay people. When a trans person becomes popular it means they appeal to cis people; there is
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The problematic tendency of the current UK government to impose their own definition of 'impartiality‘ on major cultural institutions is exacerbated by their refusal to embrace historic complexity.Exhibit A: decolonisation.Thread
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In the 1960s, the UK Public Records Office (now the National Archives) decided to sample and then destroy a large collection of shipping papers--crew agreements which were labour records documenting
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We have completely ignored the fact that the #leftist ,the #jihadis and missionaries have taken over our education system and we Hindus are falling in their trap on daily basis.
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Ahem, #twitterstorians, historians and method, a thread in 19 (following) tweets.https://twitter.com/VileHistorian/status/1263875526667763714 I’ve been saying for years that we should be more explicit about history method, but not very lo
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Thread: there was a pretty impressive backlash against today's long read in the guardian about the idea that by studying large, long term trends in human history one may identify
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Look, I am fine with being British, but people insisting on being proud of Empire is ridiculous. I blame the education system, we are not taught about the vile atrocities
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1/10 @HeraldZimbabwe article about Cde Chehondo underlines the enduring validity of the maxim, ‘journalism is the first rough draft of history’. It also reflects the power of social media influencers,
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Excellent essay on the ‘misremembering’ (or to use Beiner’s phrase about NI radical Protestants ‘forgetful remembering) of British Empire. One stark argument stands out for me - the need to
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Friedrich Max MĂŒller(1823 – 1900).Understanding the mind of the man who wrecked Indian history. Why is it important? Because he is the 'godfather' of the Marxist historiansBecause the major section
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Hundreds of Anthropologists and Historians: Black people have maintained numerous forms of ancestral worship and connection, many tracing directly to AfricaNiggas on Twitter:https://twitter.com/jayversace/status/1312523413836111872 I actual
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Alright, it's time to do a thread on Achilles, Patroclus, and pederasty.I'm a trans mlm who studied ancient Greece in my final years of high school. This largely included areas
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