#Smithsonian

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pixelkitties

Historian Carter G. Woodson lobbied schools and organizations to participate in a special program encouraging the study of African-American history. The program began in February 1926 with Negro History Week.

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

I'm reading @JincyWillett's very funny Amy Falls Down, which includes a lovely fantasy segment about someone paying for a bunch of writers to train their way across the US doing

David Fedman

dfedman

For obvious reasons, California looms large in early Japanese accounts of trans-Pacific migration and engagement with the West. What, then, did Japanese migrants from the "green archipelago" (with a rich forestry

Jon 😷 Johnsick🤒

JonJohnsick

Look, I'm hyped up. Let's dive into SAIL! Off tops, the art from the Smithsonian Open Access Collection is just so cool and gives you a great vibe going in

Lancaster Stands Up

lancstandsup

To kick off #BlackHistoryMonth , we are highlighting an incredible moment in Lancaster County history: The Christiana Resistance; when a community of free black men and women defended themselves against

Ben Wofford

BenWoffordDC

How did Theresa Greenfield— locked in 2020's closest Senate race—not get a Wikipedia page until a few days ago? The answer involves a small civil war on Wikipedia, a personal

AltScalesOfJustice

AltScalesOfJust

I went to DC today to get some things from my office, and walked around to get a feel for what it is like two days before the inauguration. I’m

David Sessions

davidsess

It’s the last night of Trumpism we should probably debate the greatest hits The see-through wall speech is definitely top 5 canon for me https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/13/trump-explains-why-he-wants-to-be-able-to-see-through-his-border-wall

Derrick Wilmore Jr.

CoachWilmore_

These two reads will change yo life. If you scary or put more faith in a vote than yo own people, don’t even waste your time. I don’t have my

Sean

poetsoup

I’ve seen a few tweets today where “Irish Slavery” is once again having to be debunked.https://twitter.com/nicolacoughlan/status/1270223505213267969 People are trying use the myth of Irish slaves to dilute the African American

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

NEWOur paper exploring the scale of global parasite diversity is out in Proceedings B. It has a bit of everything: parasitology, biodiversity, the Smithsonian, new math, international law, and even

el gato malo

boriquagato

critical race theory is, quite literally, weaponized stupidityit is the mistaking of arbitrary dogma for objective factit presumes that one aspect of culture (racism) is so powerful that it creates

john

jhal9000

Soviet historian Yuri Ivanov noted in Caution: Zionism! (1970) that historically Jews (going back to the Babylonian Jews under the rule of Cyrus) had little interest in returning to Palestine.

Tube Time

TubeTimeUS

here is part of the payload electronics from the Explorer 8 satellite (1960)! look at all the machined phenolic, colorful hand-tied wiring harness, and the stacks of round circuit modules!

Indigenous Beads

IndigenousBeads

I’d like to do a thread about how to explore your own cultural history and avoid copying the works of other artists. Many of us did not have the privilege

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

Let's talk about two things that don't usually go together. Hope, and crack cocaine.Wherever you expect this history thread is going to end up, I promise you it's going somewhere

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