#Historians

Finn

finnonthegin

More in projecting modern cultural fashions onto the past and calling it scholarship: It’s really telling that they’ve shopped a drag face onto the mediaeval art - an almost Freudian

Gary Brannan

garybrannan

Not posting this on professional twitter because it’s made me so so angry and upset. Archivists all over the country are just doing the absolute best they can to keep

Peter Savodnik

petersavodnik

One imagines Sulzberger calling @NicholasGuyatt in the middle of the night to ask him to write something good about the 1619 Project. "You gotta help me out here." Including a

Raveeta

raveets_

Many accounts are tweeting about #PaatalLok showing the rape of a Sikh woman, from an oppressed caste community, by a Sikh man who strongly identifies with being Jatt. You

Deepti

MeDamselDee

One Facebook post & guy is arrested, his relatives' home burnt, policeman attacked, people murdered, violent Islamist mobs proceed to destroy/rampage, community leaders placate & start victim card orchestra, liberal

Nicholas Molodyko

molodyko

Oliver Cromwell’s policy became more and more commercial and territorial expansion was the goal ever in view. In fact, while fundamental motives for his policies were economic, his overall policy

Howard Eissenstat

heissenstat

While Lemkin himself cites the Armenians as a basis for the word "genocide," the historiography of an "Armenian Genocide" only came in the late 1970s, as 2nd generation Armenian-American historians

Tattvam Asi (तत्त्वम् असि!)

Brahamvakya

No sir, it is incorrect.There is a line of kings mentioned that amounts to 1400 years that is missing. Let me start dismantling the lies../1https://twitter.com/Bharathgyan/status/1294226548099174400 The Western scholars hv not

Amanda

AmandaLuvsRoses

I have been inspired to do a thread on the 1619 Project. Here is more from NHJ: Then I would like to point out that it has been discredited.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/ I'll

Rick McAlexander, PhD

The_RickMc

New paper alert! @daarnon , me, and @MRubin11 examine depopulation outcomes in Palestinian villages during the 1948 War in Mandate Palestine. We argue that community social cohesion allowed some villages

Indian History

IndianHistory0

THREAD to Bust Myths related to Sarasvati RiverMany modern indian historians, leftists have claimed the Sarasvati river 1) never existed or 2) if it did, it is the Helmand river

Manimugdha Sharma

quizzicalguy

I watched the debate on secularism being essential for democracy in India on NDTV. It was quite disturbing to watch. Old Right-wing falsehoods about India's founding parents not wanting to

Dr. Megan Kate Nelson is the co-host now 🍾

megankatenelson

This is a great question. I have some thoughts (short thread).1. I don’t think Civil War historians have been explicit about working in this mode. But anyone who sees soldiers

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

I’m officially on leave y’all. Fear not — I’ll still spam your TLs with cuneiform threads, but since I’ll be slower at everything, I wanted to share the accounts of

Hot Authoritarian Takes

hotauthtakes

Now let’s unpack and disprove all these claims defending genocide Now let’s start with the "kulaks Destroying the crops" when in reality the Soviets blocked all food from coming into

Nandini 🇮🇳

NAN_DINI_

Wrote this in October 2016 which now appears in a disjointed format. So rewriting it with better experience in Twitter Threads. #MountainOfPeace In upmarket Delhi Shantiniketan, Vasant Vihar, Golf Links,