#Historian

Black Girl Tragic🙃

petersbumb

Since “Hamilton” is trending and it’s July 4th, reminder that Alexander Hamilton was born in the Caribbean island of Nevis and fled to the North American mainland to escape impending

jayson m porter

RogueChieftan

Did corn/maize influence the English/German word crop, "top of plant (or field whip)"? How colonial/imperial is the expression "ear of corn" (corn on top)? Did the Aztec/Maya refer to maize

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

From the historian Tony Judt before he died of ALS in 2010: “Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue

Auschwitz Memorial

AuschwitzMuseum

An interesting detail noticed by our followers. Jiří seems to be wearing @RealSociedad club badge. Was it the symbol of the club in 1930s? Were there any links between Real

Thomas Lecaque

tlecaque

History is not an endless loop that just repeats over and over and over. It's not a spiral, where nothing is the same but everything rhymes. History is not a

Henry Sotheran Ltd

Sotherans

BEATRIX POTTER: (places book down) this one is about a rabbit PUBLISHER: beatrice this time we really are going to need something more than a small animal walking somewhereBEATRIX POTTER:

DR. Waitman Wade Beorn (Amputate to heal)

waitmanb

[THREAD] On historians, difficult subjects, and academic freedom.A #Holocaust historian @ankahajkova has been sued by the family of a survivor for suggesting that she had engaged in a lesbian relationship

Adam Rothman

arothmanhistory

RIP Bernard Bailyn, quite a historian. I would like to add one point about his contribution to the historiography of slavery...https://twitter.com/jennyschuessler/status/1291929219715469313 In his landmark book, Ideological Origins of the A

Jay Rosen

jayrosen_nyu

Rand Paul just gave a master class in how the Big Lie — election denialism — exploits the "both sides" rule set in journalism. "Was the election stolen?" @GStephanopoulos asked.

NEH

NEHgov

Since the National Council for the Humanities meets this week with @NEHchair, we want to share the history behind this event and why it’s so important! [Thread] In 1966, President

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COMBVRO

ok you cant decide "achillean" is pedophilic and still use "sapphic". because sappho was historically was definitely someone whom was supposedly in relationships with her younger *pupils*. where is the

awkwardspiritanimals

awkspiritanimal

every couple years, some conservative yahoo with a big smile comes along and everyone declares him 'the next tr' and then it turns out he just sucks and is actually

Chris Sanagan

ChrisSanagan

There will be a number of stories and memories shared as #CanadaRemembers today. Signal boosting a few more from the First World War that challenge the popular narrative of

Kansara

kansaratva

The morning was glorious like no other, for the August Sun was shining on Nehru-ji as it had never done before.Wearing his trademark jacket, not a crease or a spot,

John Wirenius

JohnJwirenius

Ok, this is all kinds of weird.1. Thomas Becket was not an advocate of religious liberty, just of clerical immunity from secular law. More here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23645138?seq=12. Neither Becket nor his

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

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