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Victoria Taylor ✈💙
SpitfireFilly
Thank you for this, James. Just because there was no physical barrier to women joining your military group doesn't mean there wasn't a social one, though I'm sure it was
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Lukas Engelmann
engelmal81
There was this in 2017, a great Osiris issue on #Datahistories, asking about the histories of data and data-sets and reminding everyone to have a second look at the question,
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Greg Jenner
greg_jenner
Lovely metaphor, not remotely true history. This photo is from Paris Match/Daily Mail, 1958. The Algerian donkey was starving to death, so a soldier from the 13th brigade of the
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Gabrielle Hecht
GabrielleHecht
An interview with @CondoleezzaRice appeared on the @HooverInst website yesterday. She had some things to say about historians. A thread, beginning with a direct quote 1/#twitterstorians @AHAhistorians @SocHistTech "Let's start
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Daniel Todman
daniel_todman
So a response to @PhillipsPOBrien thread about how to respond to myths of Battle of Britain. Glad to see so much discussion and engagement 1/https://twitter.com/phillipspobrien/status/1282913872937209857 Think we’re basically in agreement
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willoftzeentch
historians are bad at defining fascism, struggling to separate it from potential other forms of hyper-nationalist, hyper-militaristic, right-wing populist, racial supremacist, nativist, and anti-democratic ideologiesthis makes pinpointing f
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Angry Staff Officer
pptsapper
Still trying to figure out what breakdown in the education system led to ppl believing that the nation came through great crises with no major action by state and federal
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James Lin
jamestwotree
This paper blew up on Twitter. There are economists and historians waging arguments left and right. My take on why historians find this paper so problematic, and what economists who
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Nicolas Baumard
baumard_nicolas
We are interested in the former, not the latter: what do portraits display for others to perceive, be it real or not. The last piece of historical knowledge that informed
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Liam Hogan
Limerick1914
A runaway slave advert placed by Andrew Jackson. Bonus offered to torturers. (Tennessee Gazette, 3 October 1804) @markcheathem: "In 1821, [Jackson] ordered his nephew, Andrew J. Donelson, to have a
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
Reading an unpublished manuscript by a brilliant young historian who will definitely rise to stardom. Makes me think: what are the ingredients that make brilliant historians? Here's my list, from
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Rexhinaldo Nazarko (الباني)
RexAlbani
Interesting discovery today: In the Qur’an Egypt and its ruler are mentioned in two different historical periods. The story of Yusuf (as) and the story of Musa (as) and the
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Ananya Chakravarti
achakrava
“electrical engineer turned environmentalist” ranted against (mostly female) Indian historians, using h-index scores on Google Scholar as “evidence” since he should be considered a better historian as his score was
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Drew Bledsoe
AndrewSBledsoe
Today marks the 156th anniversary of the Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864. The history of this battle, perhaps more than any other in the Civil War, is plagued by
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Sparrow/Liz (semi-hiatus)
UntoNuggan
Been thinking a lot lately how in AP European history the Renaissance was described as this universally wonderful time of discovery, but also a lot of European colonialism borrowed heavily
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NetflixFilm
NetflixFilm
You may have read recently that fewer and fewer students are majoring in HISTORY. This is a bummer for so many fields, including film. Here are a few examples in
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