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Aaron Astor

AstorAaron

Why is Pennsylvania so important to American history? 3 main reasons:1) Philly as Quaker/Mid-Atlantic Seaport2) Large-scale non-Anglo immigration and migration point to the West3) Energy resource production and distribution Philly

Brian Beutler

brianbeutler

For my sins, I'm going to do a @HeerJeet-like thread on the topic of Aunt Jemima, racist tropes, and the shifting bounds of acceptable mainstream discourse.https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1273271985863307266 The fact that Aunt

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

Journalist, teacher and co-founder of the University of Fort Hare, John Tengo Jabavu was born on this day in 1859. This year will mark the 100th anniversary of his death.

Sheril Kirshenbaum

Sheril_

Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903? She created board games to express her political beliefs.Originally called ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed

Thomas Connors welcome to the animal farm

ThomasConnors

Christian Science historically bridged ascetic American Protestantism & prosperity gospel, with a reliance on prayer rather than medicine for healing.Influence from “positive thinking” teachings of the Dutch Reformed Protestant Rev.

Jose R. Rosado

joserosado

A middle-class family from Spain came to my country, the Dominican Republic, in 1921 with the dream of building a business.In 1930, they lost everything to the deadliest hurricane to

Sara Sheridan

sarasheridan

A #SaturdayMotivation thread of our amazing Scottish foremothers who knew being divisive is the path to change.1st, Rose Klasko Kerrigan, sacked at 14 for speaking against WWI. She scandalized Glasgow’s

simon evans

TheSimonEvans

I will take this, from Asimov.But my favourite quote of his, was “THE MOST EXCITING PHRASE TO HEAR IN SCIENCE, THE ONE THAT HERALDS NEW DISCOVERIES, IS NOT ‘EUREKA’ BUT

Teresa M. Bejan

tmbejan

1/ It’s also worth asking today: what exactly makes speech “free”? 2/ The sense in play in the current debate about ‘cancel culture‘ is that of parrhesia. In Greek, it

Michael Wright

bymichaelwright

The past few. years, I’ve been looking for buildings that exist in the gap between art and religion. Are they museums? galleries? churches? something else? Here are a few I

lil lex💕

lexikennedy35

Who is Aunt Jemima ? Her real name is Nancy Green. Nancy Green was a storyteller, cook, activist, and the first of several African-American models hired to promote a corporate

Su Butcher 💚

SuButcher

My mum is in Colchester General with Covid which she contracted whilst in for a fall and hip operation. She’s 83 and her oxygen levels are 60%. The next 24

Rabbi Emily Cohen

ThatRabbiCohen

1/Good morning everyone! Here is a thread about December! And Jews and Christians and what's religious and what's secular. Because it's only 12/2 and I am already tired of the

Brian Koppelman

briankoppelman

1) This is the story of a gift gone wrong. Heavy metal guilt. And long delayed redemption. Let's start in 1981. I'm 14 years old. And a heavy metal fanatic.

Prof Kate Williams 💙

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Why was #EdwardColston put up as a statue in Bristol in the first place, in 1895, over 170 years after he died? If they wanted a white businessman/philanthropist (and we'll

Jason Fagone

jfagone

I want to tell you a story. For 3 years I’ve been researching Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a puzzle-solving heroine of the world wars. 1/ Born in 1892 to a large

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