#Historians

Lindsay Gibson

ls_gibson

My response to @jdmstewart1's op-ed in the @globeandmail today about the toppling of the statue of JAM. For context, JDM is a history teacher at a private girls boarding school

Shoq

Shoq

Forgive me the density of this post. It’s a long thread because some things just can’t be said in shorter ones.For decades , I have repeatedly—and to the annoyance of

卐 Pulakesi 卐

Kalbhoja

Hindu saviors of Dharma across the ages. Thread. Nagabhata I, founder of the Gurjara-Pratiharas repulsed an Arab invasion. Nagabhata utterly defeated the Ummayad Caliphate when it tried to invade Ujjain

Lugard Tare-Otu

Lugard_Tareotu

I am a Christian, but I have learnt that it is wrong to insist that Christianity is the ONLY way to God. I was born & began accompanying my parents

Fade

fadeaccompli

Okay, let's see if I can do a /quick/ read of _Slavery: Antiquity & Its Legacy_ by Page duBois before I head home today. It opens with a quote from

Dr EM

PankhurstEM

In honour of pride month I want to ask ‘What has happened to Pride?’Original Pride vs. Queer Theory Pride, a thread. Pride used to be about celebrating love in all

Event Horizon™ ☷We Are the Red Tide☱

iact133119x2001

1/ If you truly care about #Uyghurs in #Xinjiang #China, you must first know who they are & where they came from. It's a piece of 2000 years of history

Jack Jenkins

jackmjenkins

1. In light of apparent debate over the Religious Left, a short thread on how it not only exists, but exerts political power in virtually every meaningful way.I say this

Great House

xspotsdamark

Not much is known of Pre-Colonial African metropolitan life. You seldom hear about city life & culture of the era. Historians Walter Rodney & Robin Walker show that Europeans destroyed

Mosh

joeyandmosh

1/This is a must read article comparing the rise of Hitler in 1930s Weimar Germany to the take over of our Constitutional Republic by the Trump/GOP. Absolutely chilling. And much

#SHIFT

TheGentYYC

One of the great many problems with White America is it doesn't respect Grace or Dignity. Only Violence. Black people are getting pushed into a blood-drenched box and the outcomes

LST

LongShortTrader

Reminder: Labor lost to Capital (in the USA) many many years ago... don't fool yourself if you think this country is about labor. It's about the interests of capital.https://twitter.com/kaylatausche/status/1242517645443977219 This

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qgotnorings

Here's a clip of Stalin telling Nazi Germany they don't want that smoke. Kwame Nkrumah explains why "Africa is rich but Africans are poor" Angela Davis shatters the concept of

Tun Farul Azri

tunfarulazri

'Silat' / 'Pencak silat' noun is a newer term from post-colonial era (1900). Although some refer to Minang people of Sumatera term, 'silek', it has never been found used in

John Greenfield

greenfieldjohn

THREAD: Last week right-wing @chicagotribune columnist @John_Kass ran a column blaming rising crime and civil unrest in big cities like Chicago on "left-wing billionaire George Soros [spending] millions of dollars

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

Let's take a moment to take a deeper look at the @CWGC's Non-Commemoration Report.Uncomfortable reading for many.It is also... just the faintest glimpse of a crushing problem. /1#FWW #WW1 #SWW