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George Yarrow
george_yarrow
What a ridiculous man Chris Whitty is. He now compares his efforts to those of campaigners for seat belts in cars and for prohibition of child labour in chimney sweeping,
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b-boy bouiebaisse
jbouie
I’ll note, again, the effort to conflate the entire magazine issue with its lead essay — and really, a single sentence in that essay — a transparent attempt to discredit
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Tim Wise
timjacobwise
1/ Those bashing #1619project aren't quibbling over details, about which solid historians disagree. They are attacking the very notion (inarguable among reasonable people) of white supremacy's centrality to the nation's
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Greg Jenner
greg_jenner
A House Through Time is truly brilliant, and all these docs are quality, but yet again noms biased towards modern history. It’s a real problem - if the industry keeps
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Laura O'Brien
lrbobrien
This is a good piece and I agree - obviously! - with the arguments expressed. And I can understand why they wanted “big name” historians in there. But only *one*
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Jimmy Sweet
JimmySkuya
Rant time. These Indian Wars historians put so much work into hunting down every source for their detailed accounts that cover every bit of minutia about what the US army
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Jonathan Healey
SocialHistoryOx
From Wikipedia. ‘Most early modern historians consider that Adamson had much the better of these exchanges’. I’m not sure this is true, is it? I mean, give me JSA any
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Dr. Stephennie Mulder
stephenniem
When you try to argue your robots aren't racist because you were inspired by a book first published in 1939 that argued that Europe went through a special and unique
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Steve Campbell
Historian_Steve
I'll never forget hearing a guest lecturer in a history of rock class at UC Davis wondering aloud whether Van Morrison, Steely Dan, and Stevie Wonder were jazz musicians who
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Nivedita Tiwari
TiwariNivedita
I haven’t read enough history to say this with authority, so correct me if this is untrue. This is in the context of the History we are taught in our
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Tina Rivers Ryan, PhD
TinaRiversRyan
Do game historians know about artist Suzanne Treister? Like, have you seen her paintings of fictional video game stills from the early 1990s?? https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amenu.html or these? https://www.suzannetreister.net/info/Videogame
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Axel Çorlu
AxelCorlu
Sometimes historians' reflexes to "undo" a public narrative regarding a subject take them too far in the other direction. Mongols were neither demons who wrecked the world, nor wise, benevolent
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Aaron Hanlon
AaronRHanlon
1) This is an interesting thread about which I have some further thoughts, and the power’s out here so by god I will supply them! ...https://twitter.com/schlemiel_zola/status/1248335438521217025 2) I have always
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Boomer Bear
barefootboomer
Arguing with cosplay Twitter Confederates this month has taught me a lot about not just how ex-Confederates sold the Lost Cause myth to decades of Americans, but also how current
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Lukas Engelmann
engelmal81
We really need to talk about #history, dear Data-will-safe-the-future-folks. This is a ridiculous take and stunningly disconnected from all the brilliant debates on history of data-science / history of #bigdata
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Sergey Radchenko
DrRadchenko
OK, I promise this is my last post about NATO history today (I do have a life outside reading documents!) But I just have to write about this because of
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