#Renaissance

Franita Tolson 💕💚

ProfTolson

I was reading about Hayes/Tilden and got depressed (thanks @nedfoley!!) so decided to write a quick thread about Josiah Walls, whose fascinating story I am writing about in my book.

Rami Ismail (رامي)

tha_rami

I don't know if I ever told this story here on Twitter, but since it's relevant to the Western tradition of claiming scientific progress, let me tell you this story.

Tim Urban

waitbutwhy

Some different ways to try to wrap your head around history. Famous people by birth decade, going back to 580 BC: (thread) Visual lifespans: Visuals can help us get a

Tallsquall 🌪

Tallsquall

Well morning of Day 2 of our time together. Someone woke up happy! Lunar has just started wagging her tail at all, so this makes me happy too! #LunarLandingUpdate Omg

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

Happy Easter! Choosing Renaissance art for today is both very easy (so many options) and very, very hard (so many options). Here are the standouts:Giovanni Bellini, 1479. An open tomb,

🗝️ #neverland

jungmosites

get to know wjsn thread for gabbie assuming y'all can kinda know who is who 1. Title trackshonestly all their songs are their title tracks are good fr but my

Jonathan Culbreath

maestrojmc

Something that irks me, and which I have only slowly realized over time, is the close association that seems to exist between classical liberal neo-conservatism and the liberal arts tradition.

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jugodeava

My tio, Jose Rincon-Mora was such a talented artist/architect who doesn’t get the recognition he deserves! Lemme show y’all the building above on the right is his house/studio in Santo

Michel Lara

VeraCausa9

In the ancient world, 'The Pillars of Hercules' marked the edge of the then-known world and the limits of human knowledge. A Renaissance legend says the pillars bore the warning Ne plus

The Claremont Run

ClaremontRun

Despite being created in an innately ephemeral medium, the Claremont run on X-Men, a 16 year narrative spanning hundreds of comics, has managed to endure through a complex evolution of

🍁 𝐍𝐢𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠 ; idk 🍁

httpsboylove

My fan collection - a thread These are the biggest ones I own I use this when I’m mad hahahaha These are some of my classic ones These

shadowed eyes

EyesShadowed

Hoping to catch this @GlosHistFest Spring Festival talk next weekend about the German Empire:https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/blood-and-iron-germany-1871-1918/ Memorial to the German Empire's Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde

csdickey

csdickey

As summer approaches and social distancing becomes problematic, a question: what was #TheLastDriveIn you ever went to, if you've ever been to one at all? In my case I think

Ice // daichi is best captain

Capta1nDaichi

Sawamura Daichi woke up to his texts and messages being bombarded with excitable people.His friends, in particular, were telling him to have a day off. He was annoyed, then shocked

Nathanael May

Radthanael

Brussels Sprouts Were Actually Bad: A ThreadWhen I was a kid, Brussels Sprouts were the go-to joke food when people talked about things they hated to eat.1/ Now, though? I

k'eguro

keguro_

And as these books go out of copyright and different editions become available, we are losing many important Introductions and Prefaces that created intellectual and historical genealogies.(I'm a Harlem Renaissance