#Historians

Rohan Sachdeva

iRohanSachdeva

Since it's his birth anniversary, re-plugging a piece I wrote for @tfipost in 2018 titled:'Jyoti Basu, not Lalu Yadav, will go down as the worst CM in Indian history'He might

Nadim Shehadi

Confusezeus

What we are listening to so far is a step by step catalogue of every accusation and a summary of the conclusion for each. The verdict will come at the

Ben Railton

AmericanStudier

What a week to be an AmericanStudier (or an American). But so many folks rose to that challenge & produced great public scholarly writing. To wit, another #ScholarSunday thread on

scott simkus

scott_simkus

NEGRO LEAGUE STATISTICS (a thread): There is a stigma associated with stats from Black professional baseball. This stigma dates back to the 1970s and 80s, and it goes a little

Talia Lowi-Merri

TaliaMLM

#WorldScienceDay I get asked a lot why I study palaeontology. Sometimes out of genuine curiosity, other times it feels like I’m being put on the spot, like “why would you

Diana Harding

DianaHarding7

Khan is trying to rewrite historyHe must not be allowed to get away with this @BorisJohnson @10DowningStreet 1/6https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/09/sadiq-khan-unveils-london-statue-review-panel-branded-unelected/ "A Star Wa

Russell

RussellSieg

Great timing with the John Birch Society retrospective by historian Matthew Dallek in the post-Trump era!https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/29/gop-john-birch-society-trump/ Limbaugh shares a heritage with RW media stars Dan Smoo

🌸 RIYA 💙

RealBhaarat

Thread on #TipuSultan1. Letter dated March 22, 1788, to Abdul Kadir: 'Over 12,000 Hindus were honored with Islam. There were many Namboodri Brahmins among them. This achievement should be widely publicised

The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy

glasgow_sugar

The idea of Scottish political parties censoring historic connections with slavery is an interesting one. One bona fide case I'm aware was the (Labour led) Scottish Executive booklet in 2006-7

Vincenzo DM

DM_Vincenzo

THREAD: the Low Countries played an important role in the 'constitutional' history of Europe, but that has often been overlooked by historians who often just look at e.g. de Magna

Dr Emily Wilson

EmilyRCWilson

I put "NOT the first woman to publish a translation of the Odyssey" on my twitter-bio, after seeing it asserted for the gazillionth time. Here is why. It's factually not

TeamQueens

TeamQueensHist

Welcome to #teamqueens' new history blog and channel @TeamQueensHist! Our new project aims to bring global queenship to a wider audience through #QueenoftheDay #QOTD posts, blog posts on the latest

Amy Fallas

Amy_Fallas

Inspired by this week's (great) Drinking with Historians on evangelicalism with @varsha_venkat_ & @prof_gabriele, I want to share what my homeschooling US history textbook looked like & how Trump's current

NEFERTITI

firstladyship

1. The Catholic Church & the International Red Cross, was in the business of helping fleeing “Nazi war criminals,” escape from Germany into Italy, Spain & Argentina.Both organizations, helped the

Massimo Faggioli

MassimoFaggioli

short thread on history and statuesDo some statues deserve to be toppled and removed? Of course. My father went to school in Italy when fascism was largely still a taboo

Austin Spence🏳️‍🌈🦃🎄

austinrspence

Happy final day of #PrideMonth2020! Many people don't know #LGBTQ scientists have been involved in ecology/ evolutionary biology since its inception. A thread! Strap in for some history including kicking

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