#Colonial

Ben Heath

jbentonheath

Today in our investment law and policy seminar we took a pause to talk about the history and trajectory of investment treaties, an auspicious time to do so given the

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyNow

Today is the Jayanti of Tilka Manjhi, who led the first major tribal revolt against the British rule primarily in and around Bhagalpur. Another hero whose story deserves to be

Mary Lewis

profmarylewis

1. The controversy now brewing in France about statues has been interesting to follow. https://news.yahoo.com/top-french-historian-slams-macrons-hardline-stance-statues-103852588.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw via @YahooNews 2. As @A

Dr Philip W Blood🇪🇺

BloodPhilip

Orpo and tanks. Follows on from a previous thread about the Ordnungspolizei. This thread is about Orpo-Panzertrupppen.https://twitter.com/bloodphilip/status/1347962445286010881 A difficult story. Why did the Orpo end up with a large panzer

Hamza

wingsforus

Ever wonder why Pakistan has a lack of great intellectuals? Thinkers and opinion-makers seem missing from our history. And yet, they definitely existed. On 14th August, let us remember a

AltYellowstoneNatPar

AltYelloNatPark

The US economy is today, a fascist economy, where politicians favor certain businesses with subsidies and those businesses turn around and favor certain politicians with campaign contributions. The rest of

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/The Wokeness and postmodernism have come for ChristianityThe conservative Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution allowing the use of Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory as tools for theology. So how

Karina Patrício

KPatricio1

This blog by @JosephEStiglitz @howserob @SlaughterAM in @ProSyn raises awareness on the regression that the proposal made by some of Argentina's holdouts would mean to the already regressive legal architecture

Dr. Dominik Huenniger

dominikhhh

1/14 Today in #OceanhistAPM: #coral as I look forward to discussing @em_hutcheson's chapter for the #oceanhist reading group @chstmorg tomorrow. Last year I enjoyed making @MakingKnowing's imitation coral with Donna

Edith Mirante

EdithMirante

1. This History Thread is about the #indigenous people of India’s #Andaman Islands known as #Sentinelese because they live on North Sentinel Island. Their names for themselves, their island are

Wolfgang Hutter

WolfgangHutter2

@Peter_Nimitz @Irkutyanin1 @rhizostigmata @Sorel_ebooks @HistorysE @real_thomas777 @theeternalright @RoiRoiDame @RogueScholarPr @GuiDurocher A short book thread on classic text that is often misunderstood. Benedict Anderson's "Imag

Bobby D.

Ancient0History

Lovecraft, racism, and "the man of his time" argument. A thread. If you read an online argument about H. P. Lovecraft and his racism, someone at some point will point

macro artist

Macro_Artist

1. This thread will explore little known origin of Harvard University as well as the introduction of the printing press to British North America. Lets start by looking at the

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

PART 8: IMPERIALISM: THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISMThis thread is summarizing a book of the same name by Vladimir Lenin. I would recommend reading it. It's 162 pages so not

Christine Whyte

ChristineHWhyte

“The stories of British slave rescues we never hear about...” featured in @DavidOlusoga ‘s BBC documentary Black and British (both episodes two and three)https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-history-lesson-that-floats-my-boat-the-stor

Wolfgang Hutter

WolfgangHutter2

Historiography/suggested readings for the history of the American empire. This is not a full accounting of the history of U.S. foreign policy, but instead is a number of suggested readings

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