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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
VHTroyansky
I assigned an imaginary memoir in my survey of Islamic history and am, once again, amazed by the creativity of my students. In lieu of a more traditional written assignment,
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Calamity Calla
CallaCameron
I say all of this not as a historian of the US' many injustices, but as a legal/ political historian who's read the final report of every nationally recognized truth
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Alex White - ALIEN: INTO CHARYBDIS out now!
alexwhitebooks
Parts of me broke over the past 5 years, starting with Trump's nomination.As I watched historians call shot after shot, I buckled, terrified of what would happen to my spouse
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Mateusz Fafinski
Calthalas
Ok, ok, fine. Why can’t an event usher a new historical period but it can belong to one or another. A thread on the ontology of the past. 1/
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Andrew Seal
andrew_seal
This op-ed by Jill Lepore is a disturbing example of professional arrogance--a belief that the agenda and needs of one's own profession are actually identical with the needs and agenda
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Srdjan Garcevic
SrdjanGarcevic
Montenegro bans Vlado Georgiev, a popular singer from MNE, to enter his country after being critical of the govt (he is also a critic of Vučić). MNE did a similar
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Clint Smith
ClintSmithIII
Today I submitted the final draft of my forthcoming book HOW THE WORD IS PASSED. I worked harder on this than anything I’ve ever done. Travelled to places across the
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Mateusz Fafinski
Calthalas
Why do historians use terms like "the Middle Ages" or "the Renaissance" but get cross about it all the time? And keep forbidding things like "the Dark Ages"? Isn't it
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Hallie Rubenhold
HallieRubenhold
Second World War historians, have any of you come across stories about people complaining about the black out during the Blitz? People who didn't want to use black out curtains
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Pandeyji Speaks
malhar_pandey
#ThreadWe Hindus have always been tolerant and the Islamic invaders, The British and now the politicians have taken advantage of this for their own benifit,but i would blame mostly to
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Sheri
Arete20
When it comes to discussing historical people's sexuality's, I have a few rules as a history student. I know there's a lot of debate over whether to use labels for
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Jason A. Higgins
JasonAHiggins
I have an oral history joke but I can’t remember all the names and dates. I have a public history joke but I’d have to explain what public history is
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Mara “Get Rid of the Nazis” Wilson
MaraWilson
I've watched some videos about period costume inaccuracies in movies, lately, and they've been really informativeBut also, like... not every movie is going for naturalism? There's a lot of expectation
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Garth Godsman
GarthGodsman
In other words, nature is a school of hard knocks that knows nothing of diversity, equity, and inclusion quotas, and the successful graduates are those species—our own among them—that ran
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Laura Robinson
LauraRbnsn
I'm not thrilled at the way "do your own research" has become a slogan for our era. Not everyone can do the same quality of research, and it's not sheep-like
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Calamity Calla
CallaCameron
Ok, I ignored this for a couple of days but I can't now. Jill Lepore's article in the @washingtonpost is, in a word, wrong. It's just wrong. I don't mean
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