#Historian

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

Since I just needed to write this in replies to someone, FYI:Jewish atheists are a thing. In fact, there’s a long and proud secular Jewish tradition that stretches back at

dustindwyer

dustindwyer

Loney Clinton Gordon was born in Arkansas in 1915 and moved to Grand Rapids as a child. She contributed to the development of a vaccine that has saved countless lives.https://www.michiganradio.org/post/remembering-loney-clinton-gordon-you-a

Dr Hannah Greig

Hannah_Greig

My 6 yr old, who lived in York for 3 years, is adamant that Vikings wore horned helmets. Many You Tube videos later (all demonstrating Vikings did not have horns)

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

Coup and counter-coup. @ELuttwak in his recent Wall Street journal piece argued that the attempt to seize the Capitol was not a “coup”. This seems to be mainly an argument

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

“Goebbels was a proponent of the ‘repeated exposure effect.’ The mass mind was dull and sluggish, and for ideas to take root, they had to be constantly re-seeded...” 1/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/how-nazi-propaganda-

Philip Wood

DrPhilipWood

Some brief thoughts on the 'Arab conquests'. Firstly on the plague: I find it quite plausible that the period of epiicdem disease that runs roughly 540-770 removed some of the

Emmengard🏳️‍🌈

Emmengard1

CW: SyscourseOnce upon a time when we were just a newly discovering ourselves system we joined a DID space. We had been diagnosed so we googled and we showed up

Kelly Hills

rocza

Wait. WAIT. #bioweapons twitter - am I the only person who didn't know someone tried to assassinate Abe Lincoln with yellow fever?! And that the rest of DC was just

Rachel Shelden

rachelshelden

For those who have been as interested as I am in the discussion about Congress using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against Trump, this is a thread of scholarly

Dean Carlos 🇺🇲🇻🇦

thedeanwrites

Blessed Karl thread (as requested!)- Born August 17, 1887- Served as an altar boy- Was a daily communicant- Wore the Brown Scapular- Made pilgrimages to Marian shrines as a youth-

RRC Suds

SudsG4

This worthy and Eminent intelekshual Mr Guha once again seems to forget real history and pontificates about some mythical past. Today let's look at how his dear family regularly used

Maxamuud-Aar

MaxamuudAar

In my years on Twitter, I’ve noticed a jarring trend:Place a on your profile, bash or avoid being pro-#Somaliland and you’ll hit 10-20K followers within a year.Somalians support their

Dr. Eric Cervini

ericcervini

I flew down to Texas to help with the Biden/Harris bus tour, intended to drum up enthusiasm at polling locations. Instead, I ended up spending the afternoon calling 911. 1/

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

Wages for housework: my grandmother did all of the typing for decades and this is how people talk about her “James would have documents typed, annotate them, and then dispatch

优述/You Shu

You_Shu_China

Part 1 of historian Xiao Gongqin’s take on the Lin Biao incident. Scared by Mao’s manoeuvring against his dad, and aiming to ensure the family’s eminence post Mao’s death, son

Ben Alpers 🗽

Ben_Alpers

In order to evaluate the Whiggish narrative of racial equality as somehow immanent in the American Founding and this inevitably unfolding over the course of US history, we need to

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