#Historians

1). Q. Do you know who built the Red fort or Lal Qila?Ans: All sickular liberal history books will always mention that it was built by the Mughal emperor Shah
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Mini-thread just real quick as a PSA for the news of the day: If you would like to read about the looooong history of conservatives trying to use classrooms to
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If you were an Obama voter, take a sec to reflect on how your opinion about him evolved from 2008 to 2016. Not how it went from a binary 1
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It's time for #EuropeanBios entry number 8, Cleopatra, and it is a treat. It turns out absolutely everything I ever heard about Cleopatra is wrong, the truth is much more
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Thread.Taxila flourished from 600 BC to 500 AD, in the kingdom of Gandhara. Variety of subjects were taught at this university. At one stage, it had 10,500 students including those
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Just saw a video, apparently promoted by the govt, that talks about the 24,000-year-old civilization of India. 24,000 years ago, the world was in the grip of a glacial period,
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How to talk to normies about the LolocaustThis thread will attempt to provide strategies & tools to help you free your friend or family memberfrom a lifetime of brainwashing designed
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Those who believe tearing down statues of Canada's first Prime Minister, or another other Prime Minister, is a good way to demonstrate they want to 'defund the police' (bizarre in
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The Nuremberg TrialsHeld between 1945/46, these well-known trials laid out a number of accusations against the then leaders of the Axis: war crimes; crimes against humanity; etc.[Besides Nuremberg, similar trials
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When I was in graduate school, my advisors told me a cautionary tale about a historian, David Abraham, who wrote - in their view - a brilliant book about the
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#ThreadWhy Odisha stayed independence from Turkic invaders for such a long time when rest of India perished?Recently in some YouTube podcast AIM said that land in Odisha is wet &
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Yesterday I tweeted about calling a new constitutional convention to begin the process of rebuilding America when this administration ends. The way I see it, it would be a multi-year
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Seems important for econs (& everyone, in fact) to follow historians of medicine/epidemiology, if only to learn lessons from history of econ & epi side by side. So here's a
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Why is teaching about historical context so hard? (thread, followed by exercise for AP & college students) 1/21 Lots of reasons. For one, language. Not a foreign language. One's own.
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Right into the modern period, there was significant debate about whether literature or poetry could even be written in English because it was such a barbaric and unmusical language. Chaucer
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Doubt is essential for science ā€“ but for politicians, it's a sign of weakness | Jim Al-Khalilihttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/21/doubt-essential-science-politicians-coronavirus?CMP=share_btn_tw This discussion reminded me of an
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