#Historians

Dr. Miranda Kaufmann FRSA

MirandaKaufmann

I don’t think “our history” is what you think it is @RobertJenrick. For starters what makes British history “uniquely” rich? Are other nation’s pasts just bland dull affairs devoid of

Matt Gabriele

prof_gabriele

this brings up an interesting point about transparency/ opacity in sources. brief thread 1/ #twitterstorians https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1292091005924253698 first, of course a couple sentences in an obituary don't do justice

Caleb McDaniel

wcaleb

1. Here's a short thought experiment that might help students or others understand why historians today reject "states' rights" as the cause of the Civil War. Imagine that 150 years

Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky

lmchervinsky

ARE YOU READY FOR A CABINET MEETING?! You guys knew I'd have some thoughts about the cabinet battle songs. The historical details make my heart go pitter-patter & they are

JD Roberts

JDRobertsMusic1

The interesting thing for me about country houses (happy to be corrected, this isn't my field) is the way people want to see them as both 'historic' and timeless /(thread)

Brasidas

br4s1d4s

While military planners are not prescient for assuming future war, major powers almost uniformly assumed a coming conflict prior to WW1 and WW2 - if not earlier in say The

Tehila Sasson

TehilaSasson

I’m surprised to see how many historians I know have signed a letter which calls to perfect a racist test rather than eliminate it altogether. The problem with the test

Dr. Adam H. Domby

AdamHDomby

Now you know I love to sh-t in Harvard. But I also like accuracy. So I decided to go look at Harvard’s catalog to see its lack of military history

Helene von Bismarck

HeleneBismarck

I am so tired of historians quoting Thatcher's dismay ("a dagger to my heart”) about German MPs singing “Deutschland über alles” in the Bundestag on the night when the Berlin

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

A lot of colleges and universities with breadth requirements for undergraduates have "Science for non-scientists" courses.This morning I found myself wondering why there are no "History for non-historians" courses. This

Nick Sacco

NickSacco55

Throughout the past couple years there has been a gradual decline in blogging among historians & correlated growth in Twitter threads, or what some call “microblogging.” Let me argue in

The Bills make Dr. Jennifer Sessions want to shout

Laprofmme

This is, of course, absurd. Diplomatic history still exists, it’s just called international history now. War history exists, it’s just more than drums & trumpets now. The president of Harvard

Dr. Megan Kate Nelson is the co-host now

megankatenelson

The recent calls to action re: #SHEAR2020 are useful, and I'm hopeful they will bring meaningful change to the structure and spirit of the organization - and perhaps to others

Matt Gurney

mattgurney

Seeing a lot of tweets about the Hiroshima bombing 75th anniversary. Lot of Canadians of 2020 taking a pretty firm line against the bombings. Fair enough. Let me present an

Elizabeth Arnold

Ebetharama

I'd like to use this Very Dumb tweet to tell a story about Why I Love History. I didn't like it at all in high school, but devoted much of

Covell Meyskens

cfmeyskens

Thread: Here is my attempt to bridge the China and Japan history fields which often operate in parallel and occasionally meet. My recent book provides another way to understand the

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