#Historian

British slave traders forcibly shipped approximately 5.5 million enslaved Africans into their Caribbean colonies over a 180 year period yet when slavery was abolished just 800,000 enslaved people remained. (Beckles)https://twitter.com/ayoca
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What "progress" looks like at the University of Mississippi: a thread. On Thursday, the Institutes of Higher Learning--the governing body that oversees all public universities in MS--approved the U of
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536 DC The disaster came from the sky, in the form of a blanket of fog that covered the whole of Europe, the Middle East and some areas of Asia
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To help understand what happened over at H-France today, we can return to Laurent Berlant's concept of "Diva Citizenship":"Diva Citizenship occurs when a person stages a dramatic coup in a
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I was watching a video and it talked about how IUDs are the most popular form of birth control among Black and Latina women, while yt women most often use
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Something interesting has happened with the word 'evangelical' over the last several years. When I was growing up, my perception of 'evangelical' was that it was a big tent term
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More specifically, the blog post fails to seriously consider the ethics of distributing vaccines by WTP, or the negative effects on public trust if an untested vaccine proved disastrous.https://twitter.com/JaminSpeer/status/1337404610470944
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The Sound of Music has led generations of children astray.Do is not a deer. Re is not a drop of golden sun. And Mi has nothing to do with me,
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THIS. In addition to harmful effects on students’ mental health, forcing students to undergo intensive language training to “catch up” in grad programs is assimilationist in nature and forces us
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As a medieval historian I am afraid I am going to have to remind divorced twitter once again that Magna Carta does not refer to "the people". It refers to
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1. Social media has allowed for people w/ no formal training in specific fields to become “experts”. Their expertise isn’t based on any legit accreditation, just group think & faction
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If you had Breakfast in the Classroom at your school, you can thank the Black Panthers. 1/ The Black Panther Party created the "Free Breakfast for Children" program in the
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As Oregon enters into new state-and county-wide restrictions due to rising COVID-19 cases, we continue to look to history to better understand current events. Thanks to historian Dr. Kimberly Jensen,
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110 years ago today, a pivotal event in suffragette history occurred. Known as Black Friday, WSPU members marched to Parliament Square, clashing with police and anti-suffrage campaigners, leading to accusations
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As they’re not showing one ounce of contrition (and are in fact doubling down) let’s remember the role of the WhatsApparatchiks in all this. The Luxury Communist, The Literal Communisthttps://www.thejc.com/news/uk/labour-apologises-to-w
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This is a cross. This is a different cross. This is a third cross scene, with three crosses. They are big crosses too. Hard to miss them. Why, you could
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