#Historians

Kim A. Wagner

KimAtiWagner

My initial reaction to @SimonClarkeMP's inane take on British history was despondency, but my students convinced me it's worth engaging - so here is a thread, since this really is

Jim Clifford

jburnford

UK MP is worried that young people are focusing too much on the terrible crimes in Britain's past instead of the good. This is silly for many reasons. Millennials are

West Wing Reports

WestWingReport

In 2016, Trump became the fifth president to lose the popular vote. His losing margin - 2.86 million votes - is more than 3x the size of the other four

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

Advaidism

In the 1930s, the Western Media loved the LW = RW narrative, especially the British.When the Nazis were defeated at Stalingrad, Churchill presented the Sword of Stalingrad to Stalin at

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Yahnnisse

According to some historians Judas Iscariot was a zealotThey say at first he was entranced by Christs talk of the Kingdom of Heaven but Judas thought Christ was gonna overthrow

Tim O'Neill

TimONeill007

This is utter garbage.https://twitter.com/CosmicSkeptic/status/1355542439793197056 This kid has been mangling the history around the Galileo Affair for a couple of years now, and he really needs to stop. (i)The Church actually

Judea Pearl

yudapearl

Sharing 2020 quotes that will guide me into 2021:"The data-fitting school is driven by the faith that the secret to rational decisions lies in the data itself, if only we

Daniel Finn

DanFinn95

Some thoughts, from a sideways angle, on why the Guardian infuriated so many Labour supporters after 2015: while researching my PhD and (later) book, I read pretty much every Irish

Dusty DT4Storms Gaming

DT4Storms

Today, on this Veteran's Day, I wake to think about those that served with me, before me and that will choose to serve in the armed forces in the future.

Maya Forstater

MForstater

So today is the day for academic historians to make things up about me. Now its Matt Lodder of @Uni_of_EssexMatt makes up quotes about me conducting "a sustained campaign of

Robert #Resist Sandy

frodofied

I think back on the post-election commentary from 2016 and I shake my head.Hillary didn't work hard enough.Hillary didn't go here or there. Hillary didn't say this or she said

the artist formerly known as haitreason

thurgoodhamer

I also just finished reading the beautiful piece on Saidiya Hartman.I'm like 94% sure I disagree with Nell Painter here.History can be, should be, more than fidelity to "the archive,"

Mike Harding #RejoinEU

HardingMike

1/ In my heart I think Labour should abstain. The problem is then that there is a possibility that there may be enough Tory nutters to vote against their own

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

If by "@KevinMKruse history" you mean "the standard version of events chronicled in great detail by actual historians over a half century," then ... yes?https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1274333692396212224 This is

Joe Skeaping

JSkeaping

Going to tackle this one sentence at a time: truly bizarre analysis from a leading political scientist.https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1287678627144966147 "What unites Johnson's voters is not so much their economic experienc

Rev. Dr. Glenn Packiam

gpackiam

Two people can arrive at the same conclusion via different paths. Don’t assume that because you recognize the destination, you know the route... It’s a logical fallacy to say, “A

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