#HISTORY

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

Jeff Toobin just said that the Stone commutation is "the most corrupt and cronyistic act in all of recent history. " He might want to review the rogue's gallery of

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

Advaidism

And today I found out that Puttu (the steamed rice cake) is just 500 years old. Puttu was created by the Portuguese to feed their soldiers in the absence of

Drew Bledsoe

AndrewSBledsoe

Historians can do rigorous military or political history without endorsing the cause(s) for which historical actors fought. In fact, failure to practice judicious interpretation of evidence is partly how we

Dr. Karin Wulf

kawulf

Don't use the phrase "revisionist history" when you mean "lying." As in so and so is engaged in. Just say they're lying.Casual use of the phrase by journalists & pundits

David M. Perry

Lollardfish

I spend a lot of time thinking about how Trump will look in 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years. Because I’m a medievalist, so that’s my habitual timeframe. I think

Uday S Kulkarni

MulaMutha

Lot of stuff out there about history, historians, their biases and politics. To have pure history, it is best to go to original sources. All books are secondary and they

Mr Marr History

mrmarrhistory

1/11Changing the Scottish History curriculum has been a major point of discussion in recent weeks. But this is not as simple an issue as people often think. This thread is

Equity Scientist 🦋

BmoreDoc

Last night, when speaking to @BaltimoreGreens, someone asked me about @BaltCitySchools sending children and teachers back to physical buildings.I said: "people in power often impose THEIR thoughts on racial equity

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peachtearascal

pronoun history for the unaware and the transphobes who need education !if you think neopronouns are some new fad, or not even that but you just think they’re very new,

john r stanton

dcbigjohn

America First is explicitly a Nazi slogan, and has been for 70 years. Using "socialist" as a slur has been the rhetoric of the KKK and other racists in the

Yousuf Nazar

YousufNazar

From Declassified Docs: Cable from US Envoy in Islamabad to the Sec of State: Feb 17, 1977: “I have often talked informally to Bhutto on this subject, giving him my

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Reiner_Helos

Helos and how he is connected with the history of our world. This thread doesn't contain something unusual I just wanted to share what I noticed when was reading the

Julian Gewirtz

JulianGewirtz

"The Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful when they see the New York Times spout this ideology."All of us who want the U.S. to do much more to compete w/China

Dan Gardner

dgardner

Person Googles name, reads Wikipedia entry, is shocked to discover that people in the past thought differently, demands immediate change. The irony is that it was just such temporal myopia

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III

SecDef

As we continue to confront COVID-19 during #BlackHistoryMonth , I’m reminded of Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown, the first African-American woman to earn the rank of General in the @USArmy, and

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suzania

Thinking about the "Let's call it a day of mourning, not Thanksgiving" conversation: Dealing with America's complex history of colonialism is important. But there has to be room for gratitude,

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