#Histories

Jay Pelletier

peltch31

I wouldn’t say I’m offended by these comments. I understand that they come from a place of hurt after Don Cherry’s offensive comments. However, these comments are ignorant and unhelpful

Dr Margaret Maitland

eloquentpeasant

Important critique by @photograph_tut of yet another in a long-line of admiring histories of Egyptology’s “golden age” (aka colonial era), improving on the book with a miniature history that masterfully

joshua gutterman tranen

jdgtranen

finishing Lisa Lowe's "The Intimacies of Four Continents" + watching last night's patisserie episode of GBBO has me really thinking about the colonial implications of Hermine's appearance and voting off

Dr. Betina Hsieh 謝原真

ProfHsieh

Let me tell you, I am declaring being done w/ the shame spiral & apologizing for my #AsianAmerican identity. There's a lot of work to do as a community, but

Kevin R. McClure

kevinrmcclure

Today, I’m thinking about the ways in which the large public research university is the higher education institution type most incompatible with Covid-19. Some of the things I’ll list aren’t

@RamonVillalobos 🌹🦂

RamonVillalobos

I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley, in the same towns and roads that Cesar Chavez and the UFW marched in the 60s. At the same time my grandfather

Dennis Burns

DWB55

1/5 Few know of the forgotten POW Indian army troops, captured in Feb 42, who didn’t join the INA. 8,000 were sent to New Guinea, where they were brutally used

sententiae antiquae

sentantiq

#ClassicsTwitter anyone else struggling to find the lines of where white supremacy ends and the study of the classics begins?Not saying they are perfectly coterminous but as the years go

hey, i am adorable.

weiyikes

This is so incredibly rude. "Gentians in Bloom" is a 75,000 word Wangxian and Jiang Cheng/Wen Qing WIP.... except the second pairing is actually Lan Xichen/Wen Qing, which isn't revealed

Rebecca Futo Kennedy 🏛️ 🏺

kataplexis

It’s Mother’s Day! And as both a mother and an Ancient historian, I thought I would make a somewhat #unpopularopinion thread on how we celebrate women and talk about them

Rhiana Gunn-Wright

rgunns

we've got to talk more about how the refusal to acknowledge white supremacy and its history – the way it is woven into all of our systems – is destroys

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

Some thoughts on "interdisciplinary" uses of history.1. History is not just a source of raw data. Even simple historical sources require interpretation. They often need quite careful contextualization. Ducking this

Caitlin Dickson

CEDickson

Literally one of the requirements for DACA is *not* having a criminal record.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1194219655717642240 For those of you citing this somewhat misleading 2018 report as proof that Trump is right re:

aaja

aaja

.@HelenZiaReal on the model minority myth at #AAJA20All of these ideas that one group is better support white supremacy by keeping us apart & creating those wedges. [The AAPI community]

SoleIsStatue

SoleStatue

This is infuriating.Does this author even know that hula and siva afi ("fire-knives") come from 2 different cultures? Hula is Hawaiian, siva afi is Samoan.Or did she really pull up

Collective for Black Iranians

BlackIranians

The migration of Iranians [Shirazis] to East Africa (1)۰۰The expanse between Iran and the eastern coast of Africa seems much bigger to us today than it did a few centuries