#Statues

Christopher J. Slaby

CJSlaby

For anyone interested, this is *the* THREAD on that now infamous plenary talk from #SHEAR2020. Pull up a chair and listen!https://twitter.com/historianess/status/1284459556068876289 It was a bad talk in so many ways.

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

The Fourth of July is the perfect time to talk about statues, the absolute madness and hypocrisy of MAGA and Trumpism, and how American history has been weaponized into mythological

Sally Clayden 🇪🇺

MuttonMusic

The absolute joy that is @caitlinmoran timeline this afternoon. Some stunningly beautiful and moving statues of women. I need to make a list. Just a few copied here: a grand

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

In the summer of 1985, a phenomenon struck Ireland.Statues of saints were moving spontaneously.In over thirty locations across the small island, holy statues swayed, prayed or wept.Hundreds of thousands of

@amuse

amuse

INSURRECTION: I keep reading that President Trump incited an insurrection. The reality is that I think he had/has the power to actually incite one if he wanted to. If he

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GhaddarShehri

This article was so bad, I decided I should do a thread to explain just how bad it is. To begin with, Hoodbhoy’s arguments are entirely fallacious because he strawmans

Will Jennings

willjennings80

My main concern about the Wollstonecraft/Hambling discussion is now not about whether it's good or not or if it's suitable you represent the legacy of the subject, but a concern

𝕊onja Drimmer

Sonja_Drimmer

According to the artist Hambling, "She's naked & she's every woman." *Every white, 30-something, non-disabled, thin woman.Funny how the brief to commemorate a famous woman generalizes her when Nelson gets

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

It is always the young people in every generation who rush to the front of the battle lines and demand change. Every generation grows older and a new generation of

Kurt Schlichter

KurtSchlichter

Pulling down statues in leftist cities that refuse to maintain order is an attempt to psyche you into thinking everything is out of control.It’s not. 2/ A cpuple

زياد مرسي

ziad_morsy

There is a popular demand for this thread to be translated into English, so here it is...Fact Vs Fakes, the story behind fake news photographs of Alexandria’s underwater cultural heritage,

Ben Watson

natsecwatson

I drove to Charlottesville, Va., last week to learn a bit about the city's difficult and complicated history — while touring three large Confederate monuments. My tour was led by

When the bees die, we die too.

brucewilson

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who carved (Lakota would say desecrated) Mt. Rushmore had previously begun, commissioned by the KKK, the Confederate shrine-monument to the failed rebellion to preserve human slavery

Dr Edwin Coomasaru

ecoomasaru

Temple Bar dates back to at least 1293, when a chain between a row of posts was used as a barrier to regulate trade by the @cityoflondon. It was rebuilt

Travis Seifman

toranosukev

The 1860s in Japan saw quite a number of political assassinations. Not satisfied with only killing actual people and displaying their heads on the banks of the Kamo River, though,

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Yesterday, I visited the grave of Isaac Prince, a Black Vermonter who fought in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the Civil War unit celebrated in the movie "Glory." Black people

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