#Historians

Barbara Keys

arakeys

Gather round, young'uns, for the tale of US diplo history, when Frank Costigliola published an article that threatened to destroy the field—nay, history itself!—because GENDER (gasp!). Many scholars (their gender

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

A reminder, especially if you self-publish, that you MUST deposit a copy of your book with the copyright deposit libraries: @britishlibrary, @bodleianlibs, @theUL, @natlibscot, @NLWales and @tcdlibrary https://twitter.com/jdmccafferty/statu

Dr. Advokato

DAdvokato

Saw @Dan722J tweet about Trump being a Gracchi and thought I would look at Parenti's book on Julius Caesar for parallels Aristocracy ended up seizing much land because of warfare,

George J. Severs

GeorgeSevers10

That sound you all heard was historians of HIV/AIDS wincing at this. https://twitter.com/thattimwalker/status/1352914766440894464 The Terry Higgins Trust, the precursor to THT, was founded in November 1982. They raised money for

Manasvin Rajagopalan

SouthAsianBuoy

Being an early modernist who works on non-Mughal South Asia is infuriating, because most of the books I need, never got reprints or paperback versions. One of the core texts

Russ Burgos

Russ_Burgos

1/ Thanks to @militaryhistori, I went down a smallish rabbit hole on the state of military history education in America today, precipitated by this Max Hastings lamentation which might be

Delta5by5Dawn🇺🇸

Delta5by5Dawn

Did you know? President Kennedy made Winston Churchill an honorary US Citizen in 1963? Churchill was 88-years-old at the time. #Remember35 #ReflectionsAreImportant https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1340487827457519617 #PresidentT broug

Dr. Sarah Bond

SarahEBond

I'd love to attend the #aiascs Pompeii session this morning but I dont attend manels. https://aia-scs-2021.secure-platform.com/a/gallery/rounds/4/schedule/items/1118 So instead, I will talk about the work only of women on Pompeii this

Fake History Hunter

fakehistoryhunt

The Pedlar is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, made in around 1500.Although historians long disagreed, these days it's generally accepted the painting shows a pedlar, a man symbolic for sin

Ayesha Noor

Ayeshamxnz

Urdu/Hindi. “Urdu is not a lashkari zaban”The phrase Urdu-e-mu’alla which ‘The Exalted Court/City’ became shortened to Urdu as we have seen, about the same time the new linguistic phenomenon was

V. Gwyn Hartung

the10thstate

#PHSTMU Greetings Twitter! Today I’m going to be introducing a weekly thread on #creepyhistory and the implications of presenting it to the public. I want to start out with the

Dr Monica H Green

monicaMedHist

I've been thinking thru the night of the @NewYorker's response (via https://news.avclub.com/a-medieval-scholar-schools-the-new-yorker-about-the-bla-1844419326) to @MedievalRobots's critique. If by "facts," the NYer mea

Cassandra of Troy

BrynnTannehill

I still can't get over how Trump's "1776 Commission Report" is both so racist and Homer Simpson level stupid.First off, the whole "slavery was a necessary evil and everyone did

Ibrahim S. Amin

Ibrahim_S_Amin

Perhaps counterintuitively, the Quran becomes a more interesting book once you accept it's of human rather than divine origin. As a Quranist Muslim, my relationship with the Quran (particularly in

Pandeyji Speaks

malhar_pandey

#THREADThe Nine Gems of King Vikramaditya's CourtThe great #KingVikramaditya of Ujjain is associated with an ancient tradition that there were #nine_gems in his court. Among them were the greatest scholars,

Rob Johnson

FreeRangeLawyer

If, for some reason, you're looking for something to occupy your mind today, may I suggest you read the amicus briefs filed yesterday in support of @IJ's cert petition seeking

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