#Historians

Andrés Pertierra

ASPertierra

why is history, as a discipline, relatively theory averse compared to other disciplines it seems like the aversion is worst in Anglophone historiography, so I'm tempted to blame the English

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

To continue in a little more detail...I read Ruha Benjamin's Race after Technology first and foremost as an early modernist concerned with technological "projects" and "improvements" in the seventeenth century,

carina adly mackenzie

cadlymack

After I saw Hamilton 5 years ago-ish, I super duper nerded out and read everything I could find, and here’s my favorite interpretation of some of his letters: it is

uphold shi zhiyong thought 🇨🇳 🐙

koaleszenz

remarkable that the nazis invented the holodomor, then promptly forgot to mention anything about the holodomor in any of their propaganda.https://twitter.com/MProfett/status/1253220554275827713 just saying, if i were gonna make up a

Aimun

bluemagicboxes

I do not know what kind of a person I would have been if I had not come across Edward Said at the point in my life that I did.

Mahesh 🇮🇳

Mahesh10816

Some mosques i remember that were built by demolishing temples and materials from the demolished temples were used to build the mosquesLet me list a few , this list is

SocialHistorySociety

socialhistsoc

We, like our friends at @history_uk are dismayed at the news of cuts at Aston University and London South Bank. We fear it is indicative of a retrograde step for

Sarah Knott

knott_sarah

The ray on my horizon, #Twitterstorians? "Archival Silences, Histories of Gender" graduate course. Hit me with your recommendations 1/7 Taking its lead in particular from Black feminist thinking, this course

Dr Paul O’Brien

Cooplafocal

The Limerick Jewish Pogrom of 1904 is well-known. The local Jewish community lived in the Wolfe Tone area of the city. The story fascinates me and I think that the

Austin McCoy

AustinMcCoy3

Like I've said and written: radical political demands aren't meant to be "market tested" and analyzing all protests through the lens of two party politics is very myopic when one

Dr Roel Konijnendijk

Roelkonijn

Followers of @Thucydiocy will have seen this quote often. Funny thing is that it makes no sense in a Greek context (they never had a separate warrior class or profession)

Merle Massie☆ ⛷🚜✒🇨🇦

merlemassie

I'm a historian. I follow a lot of historians on Twitter.I've yet to find a single historian angry about statues being torn down.(Book burning, though...or reducing funding to archives...that gets

Luke Pepera

LukePepera

Africa's Forgotten Slave Trade I hope that the stories I've told so far have revealed some of the richness and diversity of Africa's past. As we well know, there is

Stephen Pampinella

StevePampinella

Quick thoughts on this excellent article from an IR/social science perspectivehttps://tnsr.org/2020/04/recentering-the-united-states-in-the-historiography-of-american-foreign-relations/ Bessner and Logevall provide an interesting take on a discipline

Dharmatalogist 😎

Dharmicgoks

Dating of various tamil text. Source: The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India By kamil zvelbil The bulk of tamil literature will fall around 2nd century AD.

Monica H Green

monicaMedHist

New thread of quick reading on the current state of Black Death studies (for new followers). I'm listing only #OpenAccess work, but remember that good scholarship costs $$, just like