#Suffrage

Andrew Gounardes

agounardes

Happy Constitution Day, New York! On April 20, 1777, New York ratified its first constitution.Here's a THREAD of fun facts and tidbits about New York's constitutional history. Today I'll

NationalNursesUnited

NationalNurses

#InternationalWorkersDay honors the immigrant organizers unfairly convicted of conspiracy for participating in a wave of worker protests known as the Great Upheaval throughout the 1800s.But #MayDay's history reaches back farther,

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of US. What's surprising is its length- 4543 words. Even if one includes the 27 amendments since 1789 we get to 7591!Contrast

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

austere1717

The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK

Agniras (Gems of Indology)

GemsOfIndology

THREAD : Western #FEMINISM Don;t be dazzled by the bright smiling ladies Pics taken from webDedicated to Beacon of #woman @ShefVaidya @NAN_DINI_ @mini_razdan10 @LevinaNeythiri Let us see how Feminism has

Kate Long

volewriter

Tonight's #VintageMagTweets come from the American magazine Lesbian Tide, later Tide. Here is its remit. I'm not sure who H & T were, but I think this is probably a

💉💉 Dr. Trey is Vaccinated

Comparativist

I took every MENA politics and history course my university offered after 9/11. One of my mentors was a lefty Jew who tried living in Israel. So that meant he

sharks

amillionsharks

I’ve started playing low-level turnip bingo with these historic romances lol (I’m here for it, more turnips) Another turnip sighting, score! More turnips! MORE TURNIPS! So far, Kleypas is the

Wut's my name? Wut's my name? Ur actin kinda crazy

InspectorNerd

I argue white tears is the most powerful form of oppression white women have. White women's tears trigger white men's rage. When a white woman cries a lynch mob is

Pierre-Yves Baubry

pybaubry

Non content d'avoir sous-entendu que le régime communiste chinois garantissait la liberté de la presse sur Tiananmen, le président du groupe LFI à l'Assemblée @JLMelenchon a laissé entrevoir ce qu'il

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

There is an endless litany of arguments against democracy and you probably know them all, already. Yes, I know the US is a republic, but spiritually it's a democracy; we

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

Most people are familiar with our separation of powers system. Our Founders had an 18th century mentality, informed by their experiences in the British mixed system, and they set up

moonbeam ⚔

sapphosfriend

was thinking about doing a one day one historical sapphist thread one historical sapphist a day, the paris lesbos edition one historical sapphist a day, the sewing circle edition

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

When few voices of authority would tell the truth about Donald Trump, she did.Today in The Ink, an interview with @sarahkendzior about alarmism, whether Trump is a fascist or mafioso,

Lucy Worsley

Lucy_Worsley

So here we are yet again, history-lovers. Can you truly credit that this was the week in the year 2020 that a certain national newspaper yet again published a list

Mystery Grove Publishing Co.

MysteryGrove

Spain, 1936. Five years of escalating political tension explodes into widespread violence. Although scantly covered by popular histories, the bitter struggle that followed would set the stage for World War