#Historians

Yoni Appelbaum

YAppelbaum

1. This is not the most consequential thing on the nation’s mind this evening. But President Trump’s election eve announcement of a 1776 Commission underlines one of the odder failures

Tiho Brkan

TihoBrkan

Philosopher Karl Marx & his utopian views of a society where you do the work you can do and take for yourself all the things of necessity you require were

Starman Dan

AlienWithABox

Alright, it's time to do a thread on Achilles, Patroclus, and pederasty.I'm a trans mlm who studied ancient Greece in my final years of high school. This largely included areas

Brad Heath

bradheath

Big pro-authoritarian energy in Trumpland today:The president's (recently pardoned) former national security adviser, Mike Flynn, shared a message encouraging President Trump to "temporarily suspend the Constitution," impose m

Dr. Johanna Mellis

JohannaMellis

The lack of academic discussion on here re: the cont’d brutal exploitation of athletes’ bodies whose teams have returned to practice & are getting sick - and these are primarily

Hipster Viking Amy

lasrina

Dear future historians: please do not believe the narrative, which I'm heartily sick of, that we reopened too soon during COVID because "people got bored." We reopened because our government

David Thomas Moore

dtmooreeditor

Morning, everyone! Some follow-ups to this thread:1. I wrote that Tacitus minted no coins, which is an error, apologies. More accurately, he minted *few* coins, especially early in his rule,

Dr Matthew Ford

warmatters

Before I write on engineers we must do some conceptual ground clearing.This is important because my gun threads have led to several questions that have a whiff of determinism about

Residing with yo daddy’s money

FeministaJones

Relevant to the US as well and the hard push for STEM education, particularly among the low-income & BIPoC they know they’ll never hire for anything, has been startling. They’re

Nandini 🇮🇳

NAN_DINI_

There are about 131 self-proclaimed ‘eminent’ citizens who write open letters that are junked without a second look. 67 people who regularly sign petitions on the death of democracy, intolerance

Sam Wineburg

samwineburg

History teachers, from high school to college: Worthwhile things to do in the history classroom, Episode #1. Assessment. I know, it’s dreaded word. Bad reputation well-deserved. 1/14 I’ve long been

Chuck Keeney

CBelmontKeeney

Many historians who are far better scholars than I am are weighing in on the 1776 Report. For me, it’s reminiscent of Phil Conley and the American Constitutional Association (ACA)

john milbank

johnmilbank3

Re apologising for slavery we need to remember that it was not often seen as an absolute evil by any past culture, including the Western, and not by the Bible.

Rory MacLellan

RFMacLellan

Reading an absolutely terrible Templar book for a project on Templar pseudo-histories. The preface alone claims that while the reason for Robert Bruce's excommunication 'may be well known', he couldn't

karanbir singh

karanbirtinna

Thread(1/4) In the 1940s only 10% of the German people were members of the Nazi party. And Germany went on to perpetuate one of the biggest human rights disasters in

miss veryvery

missveryvery

A lot of ancient cultures have little figurines and historians and archaeologists are always trying to figure out what they are.But hear me out: Perhaps humans have always derived pleasure

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