#Historian

Chris😷Riedel

medievalhistory

Apparently the new twitter debate is about how much you need languages as an historian. Like most people who got a history PhD but had zero aptitude for learning new

Dr. Megan Kate Nelson is the co-host now

megankatenelson

I’ve been thinking a lot about politics and history since a debate on here yesterday about Allen Guelzo’s forthcoming Lee bio. Some folks argued that historians can set aside their

Georgia Grainger

sniphist

There's a really particular frustration about being a medical historian right now, as so many people say "well history will tell us who was right and who was wrong" when

Dr. Jacqueline Antonovich

jackiantonovich

Hold on to your butts, friends, because do I have a story for you! Many of you know that we recently bought an old stone farmhouse in PA from the

Hallie Rubenhold

HallieRubenhold

The way we frame true crime stories reflects the values of our own society, as much as the period in which a murder took place. Dr Crippen brutally murdered his

Kathryn Gin Lum

KGinLum

A brief thread for #scholarstrike. Even as historical method remains critical for many of us working on race & inequality in America, let’s not forget the white supremacist roots of

Sanho Tree

SanhoTree

For Hiroshima remembrance day, here's something from my previous career as a military & diplomatic historian (1989-95).https://twitter.com/sanhotree/status/736029460835803137 The Spirit of Hiroshima: This documentary looks at the Au

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

Kendzior: "Did the US win the Cold War?"Snyder: "Oligarchy won the Cold War. Americans did not win the Cold War. The post-Soviet oligarchy won the break-up of the USSR, and

Adrian Harewood

CBCAdrianH

It’s hard to believe it has been 5 years since the #BookofNegroes miniseries based on #LawrenceHill’s best-selling novel aired for the first time on CBC. It became the highest rated

नेहा श्रीवास्तव (Nehā S)

neha_aks

The biggest con that the colonized elites of India play on the ordinary people is maintaining the pretense that their imposition of colonial ideas on others is stating the “objective”

Stephen West

Stephen_A_West

1. George Washington Williams, who died #otd in 1891, was a trail-blazing historian.He wrote a 2-volume History of the Negro Race in America (1882-3) & The History of the Negro

Patrick Basedman 🌲🌲🌲

patrickbasedmn

1. Transgender Vikings is my pick for Fake News Story of the Year.Were the Vikings "trans"? Of course not, and everyone knew this until 2020, when the media decided to

Dushyant

atti_cus

I want to start this thread by pointing out that this earlier year I wrote a piece severely critical of Mr Rahul Gandhi. With that out of the way, I

ayeshah

ayeshahlmg

Thinking about the specific type of empathy you develop to become a good historian Reading a @edwardW2 thread on horary astrology and the comment about being ‘struck’ by the types

Orel Beilinson

BeilinsonOrel

I see that we're discussing language learning and historians again, so I'd like to give a few cents of my own as someone who actually reads a lot of languages

Ari Melber

AriMelber

Many believe Trump's implausible lie that he won,"because it takes a tremendous amount of work to educate citizens to resist the powerful pull of believing what they already believe, or

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