#Historians

🇪🇺 Brexile In Berlin 🇩🇪

BrexileInBerlin

So today is 17th June.You may not have ever heard of the significance of this day, but you'll almost certainly have visited Straße des 17. Juni in Berlin if you've

Dr Katherine Blouin

isisnaucratis

THIS Thanks, Tori! https://twitter.com/eidolon_journal/status/1334903558022508549 Can we address the cruelty and violence of many Classics programs' language expectations and translation exams? This colonial legacy is doing a great job

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

On Sept. 7, 1923, Johnstown Mayor Joseph Cauffiel ordered all blacks & Mexicans who'd lived in the city for fewer than seven years to leave immediately. Ultimately, about 1500 working

Fidato

tequieremos

Happy Independence Day The following quotes of historians and world leaders describe how great a leader was Muhammad Ali Jinnah - the founder of Pakistan.1. “Jinnah is one of the

Dr. Lisa Corrigan

DrLisaCorrigan

At some point we need to talk about emotional and social dysregulation as a feature of the MAGA crowd. You can be pissed that they exist but there are a

chris evans

notcapnamerica

Fun fact: White women were instrumental in fundraising to erect confederate monuments.The United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in the 1890s, was arguably the most important and influential group according

Mandroid

Bigbounce01

A #thread about the brutal tactics the ancient Mongolians(Genghis Khan's tribe) used during war. The Mongols used terror as a weapon of war. If a city or fortress surrendered straight

katemessner

KateMessner

In a recent review of The Next President, someone objected to the page that discusses America's first presidents because it includes the fact that most of them enslaved people. I'd

Dr Ele Willoughby

minouette

Pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) developed the first effective treatment for leprosy, saving thousands from exile and painful, mostly ineffective lifelong treatment & was a trailblazer for both women and

abigail woods

abiwoods3

A thread on policy responses to epidemics – from someone who’s spent 20 years researching and teaching their histories. These are observations not answers, that aim to contextualise not condone

David Roberts

drvolts

One of the greatest mistakes America ever made was failing to utterly crush the South after the Civil War -- dismantle its power structures, imprison its leaders, expressly disavow its

Huzaifa.

MHuzaifaNizam

Lesser Known Fact: Although the Duranni rule over Peshawar was very prosperous and uplifting, in 1779 there was a failed coup and assassination attempt on Taimur Shah (Ahmed Shah’s Son)

Uriah

crimkadid

The founder of The Nation of Islam, Wallace Fard Muhammed, claimed himself to be half black and half white, born in Mecca. His followers claimed he was God Incarnate; most

Iseult

iseult

Maud Gonne, born #onThisDay in 1866. I want to honour her as a woman, revolutionary, activist, artist, and philanthropist. She spoke up for people who did not have a voice.

Qs Ayuba Baranzan Duniya

ayukson2011

Kaduna: Crossing Over the River of Snails byChristian O. EmmanuelHausa historians employ the instruments of falsehood to distort the details of the history of their neighbours. This has always been

Trevon D Logan

TrevonDLogan

A thread on something we rarely talk about (except as a potential limitation): external confirmation of results. The number to remember here is 2.5% When @drlisadcook and @jmparman and I

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