#Historians

A senator in Kenya asks: Who is Murathe? A rhetorical question no doubt but a good opportunity to define Muratheists & Muratheism.Murathe is Svengali, short & simple. To understand who
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Y’all wanna talk about the pervasiveness of consumption of Black Culture with Black people removed from it on this here Thursday night?(I’m bout to anyway: Thread) So, I’ve noticed cause
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Allah Baksh Sumroo was the man who said India should not be partitioned because entire India belonged to Mughals. And Islαm should ultimately rule over entire IndiaHe is now being
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This from @NewAmerica on Congressional staffing, brain drain & its effects on democracy is useful. I agree with most of it - we need to pay interns, need more diversity,
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It is the dismal duty of historians to recount periodic reinventions of the wheel. Juggling tax powers across jurisdictions is one such wheel. And yes, I think there’s a lesson
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Absent a near-total reversal of political trends, Donald Trump is going to lose—in all likelihood decisively—to Joe Biden in November.How will historians remember the Trump administration? I suspect the dominant
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Heads up. I've got a report coming out tomorrow that gets into history. My point is: we have taken a variation on same bad approach at US border for so
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It's not that statues can't teach, but that they can also erase (often the very purpose of monumentalization). We see this dynamic in two representations of Thomas Jefferson in D.C,
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More broadly, the historical profession as a whole, and humanities generally, have relegated disease & disease history to a bad story about the way the past used to be. So
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I want to take some time this morning to be grateful & to share my sincere thanks with many across this nation.Without all of the women & men who braved
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I'm going to do a longer thread today in honor of #CiteBlackWomenSunday. But here's a mini-thread 1st w/ an explanation of my reply to a medievalist colleague @tlecaque in a
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Heterodox economists have often criticised the mainstream, and also made the case for their preferred approach to economics, on ontological grounds (i.e., using arguments that focus on the capacity of
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A quick thread comparing Soviet motivations for intervention between 1956 and 1989.1) Poland. 1956. After Gomulka, whom the Soviets considered a nationalist, gained power and tried to force out pro-Soviet
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I'm bored, so here's a small thread with basic trivia on the evolution of the Kalashnikov.A lot of people think Mikhail Kalashnikov just invented a single gun, but, he invented
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i am sick and reading about 19th century New Zealand, and it may be just that I'm a little hallucinatory right now but it seems like strategists and military historians
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Every time I see someone clutch their pearls over Trump putting kids in cages I remember that Obama and Biden built those cages and the press and Congress knew about
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