#Historians

The Sixth Mountain

cynical_biatch

Cartesian VisionA woodcut from Descartes 1644 'Principles of Philosophy' shows a theory of optics & the interaction with the Pineal Gland.Believing light rays impressed particles into the eyes, the programmed

KEPT THE FAITH, BABY! SI SE PUEDE!

JamesMWilliam18

THREADWe are hearing about "white supremacy," "white nationalism" and "racism." What are these? What do they mean? Am I a racist?Again, your boys Jules and Vincent on board to help

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 23, 1872. Coal miners near Clearfield, Pennsylvania got into a fight with strikebreakers trying to mine coal during a strike. This tells us a

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

With Trump filling Twitter with his stupid appropriation of a quote from John Paul Jones, here's some better JPJ content. 10 years ago I wrote about a 1790s radical named

Oliver Hypolite-Bishop

OliverHBishop

THREAD: “But Bish, what about BlAcK oN bLaCk CrImE? Surely this movement should look at problems within the black community, too?”. Here’s a quick thread on how stupid you sound

James Harland

DJMHarland

I want to talk a bit about how Dr. Philip A. Shaw of the University of Leicester, primarily a philologist and scholar of onomastics by training, wrote for his PhD

Abayorr Mi

iamabayorr

The Top 10 Terrorists Of All TimeA THREAD After the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of U.S. soldiers, it got us thinking of who are the worst

Arunabha Sengupta

senantix

Thread: 170 wickets at 25.91, with a miserly economy rate of 1.94. Often unplayable, mostly unhittable.The greatest off-spinner the #cricket world has seen alongside Jim Laker. Hugh Tayfield was born

Rebecca Levitan

LevintheMed

All I want for Christmas is...an $80 million portrait of an unknown man!With everything going on in the world, a @Sothebys' sale next month may not seem newsworthy - but

Deepak Gupta

deepakguptalaw

In the NY Times today, I argue w/ @brianbeutler that a Civil War amendment to the Constitution--barring those who've "engaged in insurrection" from holding office--authorizes a broader response, one that

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – Observations on the Democrat Convention and Secularism1. A pal sent this to me this morning, and it is well worth posting for others to read. It comports with

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: Today is Imbolc, which celebrates the first day of Spring in Ireland. It is an ancient Celtic feast & is marked as St Bridget’s Day, it’s Christian re-incarnation. In

Giveaway Station

pluch1016

1/X) THREAD... I want to preface this by saying that I’m a moderate conservative... What is Donald Trump’s legacy? I’ll remember Donald Trump as an impeached, one-term president that never

Bosnian American Genocide Institute (BAGI)

BosnianGenocide

Today is #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay . On this day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we would like to remember the countless people who perished during the Holocaust in the Balkans

Ismaeel

ChishtiSufi79

Just returning home from 8 days in Pakistan as part of a Khanqahi tour which I also used as an opportunity to visit Sufi shrines, historical sites and experience authentic,

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

OK, my first thread on misconceptions about the history of bank-issued paper currency, motivated by claims that history shows that the private market can't be entrusted with supplying currency of

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