#Empire

Mike Chen - WE COULD BE HEROES is out now!

mikechenwriter

In "threads about unimportant things given the world on fire," a convo yesterday brought up something that has much potential but is fundamentally broken: Star Wars, Episode 2: Attack of

Sam Freedman

Samfr

Honestly one of the best book reviews I think I've ever read. Alongside a thoughtful analysis of both books it also sets out the limits of what greater historical understanding

Dave Agar

dave1agar

Bell Media has eliminated more jobs. More important, it has terminated some of the smartest people in the business. My heart goes out to my friends and former colleagues and

Dr Laura McAtackney

LMcAtackney

Fantastic article about what looks to be a fascinating book on the problems historians have on retrieving the true nature of empire - the fact the records are so partial

Alison Wright

alisonmawright

On holocaust memorial day it's important to remember who ran the holocaust. A pharmaceutical cartel, IG Farben with Standard Oil and IBM. IBM ran the census and the train scheduling

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

So...THE DUKE WHO DIDN'T is coming on September 22, 2020.https://www.courtneymilan.com/the-duke-who-didnt/ Jeremy Wentworth has been in love with Chloe Fong for as long as he can remember. Maybe it’s time he

Eztainutlacatl

cbkwgl

Let me summarize.1. When Muslims persecuted Khalsa, Udasis protected the Gurudwaras2. When Guru Gobind Singh asked Banda Bairagi for help, Khalsa betrayed him3. When Sikh Empire ended, Khalsa Sikhs converted

Nipun Chopra, PhD

NipunChopra7

Speaking of history, during Marcus Aurelius' reign, the Roman empire experienced The Plague of Antonine (now believed to be SmallPox). Marcus Aurelius had to fight against rampant misinformation campaigns. Specifically

TravaTheTravelerOfTheMultiverse

TravelingBeing

CW: ableism.I’ve said this before, but why is it that nearly every movie with an autistic main character character is about the fact that that person is autistic? Why not

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Sci-Hub gives access to this paper on Roman DNA:https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/708 Roman region had two major shifts in ancestry composition - arrival of EEFs & farming, then later the Indo-European invasion. By

FredWatsonII

FredWatsonII

What’s a counterfactual history for Mussolini’s Italy? It cannot be fantastic. Must be grounded in reality. It also must account for Cold War reality. The path a neutral Mussolini could

James 💜 Loxley

oldnorthroad

A tiny wee thread about one of the new intake of Tory MPs currently making their mark in Westminster - one Danny Kruger. He's recently gained notice for his staunch

Max

DrCalcifer

Vayne Carudas Solidor ou l'incarnation de l'intelligence politique et du génie militaire. Fin stratège, orateur éloquent et démagogue, je présente dans ce thread et pour commencer l'année l'un des plus

Fatima GharWapasi 🚩

GharWapasi_

THREAD (Something is Wrong)1/nWhy was Ashoka glorified by @PMNehru instead of Chandragupta Maurya? 2/nWhy was Chanakya demonized as a Kutil Brahman by Nehruvian historians?Why was this image glorified?Wasn't there a

Jonathan Wilson

jnthnwwlsn

ST:TNG is very seductive nostalgia—being a show about a colonialist government that is tolerant, competent, and possessed of effectively infinite wealth and military power, or in other words, a stand-in

sarine

sarinezeitlian

What is Christian Persecution in Southwest Asia/North Africa? An educational thread: Major TW // violence, destruction, mass murder etc. This is a sensitive subject but it must be taught. The

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